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Creator: Музей Голодомору

Language: Ukrainian

The selection of digitized legal documents, photos and videos pertaining to forced industrialization and Holodomor. In addition, there is a collection of correspondence by Jerry Berman, an engineer from South Africa who witnessed Holodomor during his work in the Soviet Union in 1932-1935.

Creator: Hungaricana

Language: Czech

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.

Tags: 20th century| Zakarpattia

Creator: Державний архів Тернопільської області

Language: Polish

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…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Ternopil

Creator: Державний архів Полтавської області

Language: Russian

The Poltava archive has digitized collections on local government, media, and everyday life from the late imperial period up through the 1917 revolution. These include extensive council reports by the Poltava zemstvo (elected council that administered local affairs), 1868-1915. Reports pertain to all aspects of local life and government in the late imperial period. Access the Google drive folder…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Poltava

Creator: Державний архів Луганської області

Language: Ukrainian

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…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Luhansk

Creator: Державний архів Кіровоградської області.

Tags: 20th century| Kirovohrad

Creator: European University in St. Petersburg

Language: Ukrainian

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…

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

Creator: Center for Research on Ukrainian Heritage

Language: Russian

Digitized audio recordings from a large-scale oral history project conducted by Ukrainian scholars led by William Noll in 1993-1995. Interviews were conducted with people who lived in rural western and central Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s. They examine the transformation of rural society throughout this period. About 100 interviews are available online. They are presented without transcript, so…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Музей Голодомору

Language: Ukrainian

Video, audio, and written transcripts of oral histories on Holodomor and other Ukrainian famines of the 1920s-1940s. This compilation of oral histories pairs with the Holodomor Museum's burial map, a digital project where users can track the events of the Holodomor famine and other Soviet famines in Ukraine (those of 1921-1923 and 1946-7) by location. On the "Свідчення" (testimonies) page of the…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: The New York Public Library

Language: Yiddish

A search for keyword "Ukraine" on the New York Public Library online archive brings up 1115 results. Sources in Judaica and Jewish history are especially rich, as well photos, illustrations, and other religious documents. The NYPL has also digitized its collection "Peasant art of subcarpathian Russia," comprising photos of physical artifacts and material culture from Zakarpattia. Researchers can…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Chernihiv| Crimea| Galicia| Ivano-Frankivsk| Kherson| Kolomy| Kyiv| Odesa| Poltava| Rivne| Sevastopol| Volhynia| Zakarpattia

Creator: Державний архів Київської області

Language: Ukrainian

Users may choose from the categories "until 1917" and "1917-1991" on the first page of the Kyiv oblast digital archive. Collections preceding 1917 include archival collections of the Kyiv provincial board 1780-1919, Kyiv state chamber 1781-1919, Kyiv provincial commission of the first general census in 1897, and office of the Kyiv Provincial Governor of the Provisional Government 1917-1918. These…

Tags: 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| Kyiv

Language: Ukrainian

This site compiles hundreds of archival documents the State Archives of Kharkiv oblast and the State Security archive of Kyiv pertaining to the Holodomor famine of the 1930s as experienced across Ukraine and in Kharkiv oblast' in particular. It includes additional records from Kharkiv libraries and other institutions, providing a lens into Holodomor in one province. Users can also find published…

Tags: 20th century| Kharkiv