The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute's historical and contemporary atlas projects provide data, statistics, maps, photographs, and analysis on a wide range of topics throughout Ukrainian history, as well as on contemporary politics and society. MAPA brings the latest innovations in information technology to Ukrainian studies in this approach to the country's past and present. The breadth of…
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…
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.
Visual and textual materials relating to the creative practices and material culture of the religious underground under state socialism, sourced from secret police archives in Central and Eastern Europe. While materials pertain to religious groups throughout 20th-century socialist Europe, Ukraine is a major focus of the archive. Ukrainian materials are found throughout the various collections and…
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…
A nearly complete 1921 census performed in the Zakarpattia (Transcarpathia) region in 1921, shortly after its incorporation into the new state of Czechoslovakia in 1920. Zakarpattia, now part of contemporary Ukraine, was part of the Czechoslovak state from 1920 until World War II. Census materials are in Czech and Hungarian.
The Ternopil oblast archive website has four digitized collections, including:
1. Metric book records of the city magistrate of Kremenets, 1781-1869
2. Metric book records of the Jewish synagogue in Kremenets and other records on Jewish community birth, marriage, divorce, and death, 1870-1938
3. Metric books of Ternopil's Greek Catholic communities, 1784-1944
4. Archives of the Ternopil…
The Sumy oblast archive has digitized a great number of archival documents, newspapers, and metric books pertaining to a wide variety of historical topics, mostly from the late imperial period through the Second World War. Users can explore digitized archival collections of institutions, organizations, and enterprises from the late imperial period, provisional government and independent Ukrainian…
The Mikolaiv regional archive's digitized documents include metric books and state registration records from the 19th century through 1940s, house books listing extensive information in Mikolaiv's individuals and communities in the 1930s-40s, and audit records of Mikolaiv's Jewish population 1806-1875.
The Luhansk regional archive has digitized Fond 303, a collection of decrees and government records from the Luhansk regional government. The collection includes different districts' Department of Justice archives for the years 1939-1945. In addition, the website offers digitized copies of metric books from church parishes for the years 1851-1914, as well as a collection of documents pertaining to…
Archival documents, especially metric books, from Khmelnytskyi and other regions of Ukraine. To explore the digitized collection, hover over "Архів - on line" on the front page's lefthand toolbar and choose your collection of interest. Collection 18 contains metric books on births, marriages, and deaths residents of Khmelnytskyi and other Ukrainian regions 1769-1927; collection 17 contains metric…
Digitized collections from the Kharkiv oblast archive include metric books pertaining to Christian, Jewish, and civil communities in the 19th and 20th centuries; birth, marriage, divorce, and deaths records for the 1920s-40s; registers from the Nazi occupation of the 1940s; audit documents from the 18th and 19th centuries; and books on the genealogy of local nobles from the Kharkiv region for the…
The Chernihiv oblast archive has digitized collections from the pre-Soviet and Soviet periods and from the region's communist party archives. To access digitized files, click "Оцифровані описи та справи онлайн" (digitized descriptions and files online) on the front page lefthand tool bar. Then click "ОПИСИ" for descriptions of collections and on "СПРАВИ (оцифровані ДАЧО)" to select from…
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.
The Mykhailo Maksymovych scientific library at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv has scanned and digitized over 3000 old and rare books ranging from the 15th through the late 19th centuries. Books come from all over Europe and include many culturally significant books from Ukraine. Users can use "advanced search" to search by author, title, period, or publisher, or click "browse…
Scans and transcripts of diaries from Ukraine, the Russian empire, and the Soviet Union, from the 19th century through today. Users can search for Ukrainian-language diaries as well as Russian-language diaries pertaining to Ukrainian history (Belarusian diaries are available too). Diaries and diary entries can be searched by included words, year, gender, topic, and more. This is a valuable site…
Extensive collection of publications, internal documents and statistics, children’s and youth newsletters, personal recollections, and other sources from Ukrainian independence movements from 1917-1991. Users can search materials by category, date, author, institution/organization, document name, keywords and archival institution.
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…
This collection of digitized materials from the V. I. Vernadsky National Library ranges from throughout Ukrainian culture and history. Researchers will find a great number of archival, visual, published, and audio sources spanning many centuries. This source is especially good for pre-20th century history. Users can search by collection, source type, or using the search function.