This Internet Archive collection preserves primary source online materials from the Ukrainian revolutions and Russian-Ukrainian conflict of the 21st century (before the 2022 war). The Ukrainian Conflict internet archive is a collaborative project by the Internet Archive team, Stanford University, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, the Library of Congress, and Global Investigative News…
The All-Ukrainian cinema and photo management service (Всеукраїнського фотокіноуправління (ВУФКУ)) has compiled this playlist of videos from the history of Ukrainian silent film. Most of the videos are newsreels, especially from the 1910s, 20s, and 30s, documenting important moments and everyday life in early Soviet Ukraine. There are nearly 200 items in whole. Users may need to manually work…
The VUFKU "Lost and Found" digital archive stores information, film, photos, and promotional materials from the Ukrainian film revolution of the 1920s-30s. Between 1922 and 1930, the All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration released hundreds of feature films, documentaries, newsreels, and cartoons that together constituted the heyday of "Ukrainian Hollywood." The database includes information on…
Archive of Ukrainian periodicals dating back to 1896. Sources are most numerous for 1917-1945. You can search for items and filter by date, location, or publication title, or browse aggregated collections by clicking "Колекції" (collections) on the homepage.
Sixty-nine oral history interviews conducted in 1995-1996 and pertaining to Soviet collapse and the formation of independent Ukraine from 1988-1991. Interviews were conducted with Mikhail Gorbachev and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, and with numerous politicians, dissidents, religious figures, diplomats, journalists, businesspeople, scientists, and military and intelligence officers.…
Descriptions for holdings at the Central State Archive of Cinema, Photo and Sound of Ukraine. While access to digitized film and audio materials are limited, the website provides movie scripts and thorough descriptions of news reels for different Ukrainian film materials from the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. These descriptions and scripts can be found under Кінодокументи and Відеодокументи.
The Russian National Library's online collection of digitized newspapers includes many newspapers from Ukraine in both Ukrainian and Russian languages. Collections are especially rich for the mid-19th century through the 1940s, but researchers will find materials for as early as the 1700s and as late as the 2000s. Collections are organized by city, so the researcher must know which cities they are…
A collection of foreign and Ukrainian early modern texts, rare editions of 19th and 20th century books, and periodicals. This source is especially rich in local lore and literature on Odesa and the Northern Black Sea Coast, and local newspapers dating back to the 18th century.
An online library of digitally available books from the Yaroslav Mudry National Library of Ukraine. The library comprises four major collections: culture, art, ethnography, and cultural institutions (libraries, archives, museums). Books are uploaded on the basis of their scientific, social, historic, and cultural value. Digitized materials number in the thousands. Users can locate sources using…
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.
A completely digitized collection of archival documents, photos, newsreels, and academic articles on the history of the Babyn Yar region of Kyiv from the late 18th century through the 21st century. Many sources are dedicated to the massacre of 34,000 Jews in Babyn Yar in 1941, and more generally to the Holocaust and WWII in region. Researchers will also find sources on all aspects of life in the…