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.
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…
Several rich collections are digitally available on the Kyiv City archive's website. Found at this link, they include the "Чорнобіль. Хроника Києва. Он-лайн архів" (Chornobyl. Kyiv Chronicle. Online archive), a rich source on the Chornobyl nuclear disaster and its aftermath. This collection includes 504 digitized archival documents from three different archival collections pertaining to all…
TsDAGO, the archive of public organizations in Ukraine, has published a book comprising hundreds of pages of archival documents related to the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. It includes documents surrounding the explosion of 1986 and subsequent task force files up to 1988. The linked page leads to the 830-page PDF, which contains around 700 pages of original archival documents.
The Chernobyl archive, a project by the Chernobyl Historical Workshop, is designed to preserve and transmit the history of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. It comprises over 200 oral history interviews and written essays by first responders, liquidators, displaced persons, and others who experienced or were affected by the disaster. Interviews are available in both audio and written transcript…
This digital archive collection compiled by the Wilson Center contains Ukrainian and national KGB reports, Communist Party directives, and Ukrainian Academy of Science measurements which discuss technical issues with the Chornobyl plant, details of the accident, and emergency responses across the republic. Sources span from the late 1960s when the plant's construction was first imagined to the…