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Creator: Національний музей історії України у Другій світовій війні

Language: Ukrainian

The digital collections of the National World War II Museum in Kyiv include several curated archival collections from the museum's holdings on topics pertaining to World War II and beyond. Users can browse by collection, with topics ranging from the Holocaust and children in WWII to the personal archive of Andrii Mykhalevych, a Ukrainian partisan fighter murdered by a KGB operation in 1951. You…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Героика

Language: Ukrainian

The "names of independent Ukraine" database provides information on Ukrainian soldiers who were active in the country's independence struggles from 1917-1924, including military registers, biographical information, and related photos, monuments, and documents. The project includes several oral histories, and some soldiers' entries include more thorough information. The database estimates that it…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Miriam Dobson and Nadezhda Beliakova

Language: English

A digital project by academics Dr. Miriam Dobson and Dr. Nadezhda Beliakova, sharing primary sources collected during their research on Protestant communities in the USSR, many of whom were located in Ukraine. Sources include archival documents from state archives and Memorial, original oral history interviews with accompanying English transcriptions, and correspondence. Click "site-map" for a…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: CIA.gov

Language: English

The CIA's declassified collection of digitized documents, available in its online reading room, is a rich source for Ukrainian and Soviet history. A simple search for "Soviet Ukraine" revealed thousands of relevant results and more advanced search is possible. The wide array of U.S. intelligence documents sheds light on a great variety of issues and questions on Ukraine during the Soviet period.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Центральний державний науково-технический архів України

Language: Ukrainian

Collections of records from various science, engineering, technical, military and industrial projects in Ukraine in the late Soviet period. To find open access digitized materials (as opposed to listings of undigitized archival holdings): under "Пошук", select "Пошук за атрибутам". On the next page, select "Цифрова копія документа НАФ" ("digitized copy of NAF document") and search categories will…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů

Language: Czech

This Czech project documents the political repression of Czechoslovak people by the Soviet government. It includes a rich collection of digitized NKVD/KGB investigation files from Ukrainian archives, namely Zakarpattia, which had a large Czech population in the early Soviet period. While the website is in Czech, the uploaded case files are in the original Russian. These documents from Ukrainian…

Tags: 20th century| Ivano-Frankivsk| Lviv| Odesa| Zakarpattia| Zhytomyr

Creator: Державний архів Чернівецької області

Language: Ukrainian

The Chernivtsi oblast archive's digital collection covers much of the region's 20th century history, under Polish, Soviet, and independent Ukrainian rule. On the left hand toolbar click "Електронний архів" (digital archive) and then choose "дорадянські фонді" (pre-Soviet collections) for 1918-1944 archive documents and "радянські фонді" (Soviet collections) for 1940-1991 photo materials. The…

Tags: 20th century| Chernivtsi

Creator: Электронная Книга Памяти Украины 1941-1945

Language: Russian

A searchable database of Ukrainian soldiers who served during World War II. This database comprises a digitized version of the "Book of Memory of Ukraine," a document published since 1994 that lists Ukrainian soldiers who died during the Second World War. The digital project complements this information with portraits, photos of military medals, and information on partisans and prisoners of war.…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Національна бібліотека України імені В. І. Вернадського

Language: Ukrainian

Ukrainica is a major database compiling reference, informational, and documentary sources on the broadest areas of Ukrainian history, culture, economics, and more. Its sources are archival, published, and manuscript documents and include materials created both within and without Ukraine, on all topics related to documenting the history and heritage of the Ukrainian people.

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine| ancient Ukraine| Kyivan Rus'| Middle Ages

Creator: Cossackdom.com

Language: Russian

An electronic database compiling sources and information on Ukrainian and Russian cossacks from the 15th through 21st centuries. While many documents are secondary sources, researchers can find published archival document collections, visual sources including maps and illustrations, historical songs and ethnographic collections, and more.

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine

Creator: Central State Archives of Public Associations of Ukraine

Language: Ukrainian

The Central State Archives of Public Association (CDAGO) online exhibitions include numerous original scans from their archival collection. This website URL brings researchers to a list of exhibition topics spanning the breadth of modern Ukrainian history, including literary figures and movements, World War II, the Afghan War, the transfer of the capital of Ukraine from Kharkiv to Kyiv, the 1920s…

Tags: 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine

Creator: Центральний державний архів вищих органів влади та управління України

Language: Ukrainian

Many documents from the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine (TsDAVO) are available in digitized or published format on the archive's website. Documents are available both in published document collections as well as documentary exhibitions. To browse document collections, choose "publikatsiyi" (publications) from the main toolbar. Here you can access free…

Tags: 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine

Creator: Інститут історії України

Language: Ukrainian

This vast database contains published document collections, oral history collections, old metric books, law collections, archival collections, and more. This is a good initial place to look for any research topic. Sources are categorized under "Е-Джерела" (E-resources) by period, and there is also a search function.

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine| ancient Ukraine| Kyivan Rus'| Middle Ages

Creator: Blavatnik Archive Foundation

Language: English

The Blavatnik Archive is a non-profit organization that collects materials on 20th century Jewish life not typically found in standard archives: postcards, ephemera, correspondence, and more. About 15 percent of the archive's content is available online, and this number continues to grow as the foundation uploads more materials. Online collections offer rich materials on Jewish life and…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Yad Vashem

Language: English

The Yad Vashem open access digital collections include a central database of Holocaust victims' names; an enormous photo archive of Jewish life before, during and after the Holocaust, including in Ukraine; a database of "the righteous among the nations", those who helped Jews (1448 records for Ukrainian persons — you can then filter by profession, religion, and gender); a large number of digitized…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Державна архівна служба України

Language: Ukrainian

The State Archival Service of Ukraine has compiled unique documents from across Ukraine's archives into one digitized collection. Here one can find notable and rare sources from across 1000 years of Ukrainian history. Highlights include 12th century birch bark deeds with proto-Ukrainian language; diplomatic and religious documents from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; photos of 19th century…

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| Chernihiv| Khmelnytsky| Kyiv| Lviv| Middle Ages| Zakarpattia| Zhytomyr

Creator: Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine

Language: Ukrainian

The online document exhibitions of the Central State Historical Archive reveal a rich array of metric books, law books, parish registers, and religious and military documents from different Ukrainian provinces over several centuries. One can find metric book information on various religious communities, including Jews, Lutherans, and Orthodox Christians.

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| Chernihiv| Chernivtsi| Dnipro| Kharkiv| Kyiv| Middle Ages| Odesa| Podil| Poltava| Sumy| Ternopil| Vinnytsia| Volyn

Language: Ukrainian

A small collection of Ukrainian newspapers published between 1825 and 1943. These include the Kyiv Telegraph, Soviet newspapers Pravda and Vysty VUTsVK, the newspaper of the Ukrainian anarchist movement Makhnovshchina from 1919, and local newspapers for Dnipro and Galicia.

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Dnipro| Galicia| Kyiv

Creator: Central State Electronic Archive of Ukraine

Language: Ukrainian

The Central State Electronic Archive holds several digitized collections on its website (despite the name, other electronic holdings must be accessed at the physical archive). These include metric books collections from Donetsk, Crimea, and Sevastopol; records from German occupation in the 1940s (in German language); and state security records for Ukraine for 1916-1941. Metric books collections…

Tags: 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| Crimea| Dnipro| Donetsk| Odesa| Zhytomyr