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Creator: Arcanum

Language: Ukrainian

A compilation of Habsburg-era cadastral maps that show the boundaries of privately owned land and public land in Zakarpattia. Now a region in western Ukraine, Zarkapattia belonged to the Austrian and then Austro-Hungarian empires in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Tags: 18th century| 19th century| Zakarpattia

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 Сумської області

Language: Russian

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…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Sumy

Creator: Державний архів Миколаївської області

Language: 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.

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Mikolaiv

Creator: Державний архів міста Києва

Language: Ukrainian

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…

Tags: 20th century| Chornobyl| Kyiv

Creator: Державний архів Херсонської області

Language: Ukrainian

The Kherson oblast archive's digitized sources include extensive collections pertaining to imperial and Soviet-era local government, religion, everyday life, economy, and various institutions. The collection mostly ranges from the mid-to-late 19th century through World War II.

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Kherson

Creator: Крим—це Україна

Language: Ukrainian

This Ukrainian government project showcases archival documents from the history of Crimea to demonstrate the region's Ukrainian identity, in response to the 2014 annexation by Russia. The collection includes documents on the 1853-6 Crimean War, Crimean Tatars, the 1917 Revolution in Crimea, 19th and 20th century tourism to the peninsula, and more.

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| Crimea| Kherson

Creator: Центр міської історії

Language: Ukrainian

Based in Lviv, the Center for Urban History houses digital projects pertaining to the urban history of Ukraine, especially Lviv. Since the beginning of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War, the Center has embarked on an intensive project to digitize more materials. Open access online sources are found on the "Digital" section of the Center's website. Most interesting is the "Urban Media Archive," a…

Tags: 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| Lviv

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: Центральний державний архів-музей літератури і мистецтва України

Language: Ukrainian

The digital archives of the Literature and Art Archive-Museum of Ukraine house three large personal collections of notable Ukrainian figures of the 19th and 20th centuries: the Beretti architects, who designed and built many notable buildings in 19th century St. Petersburg and Kyiv; the Orientalist, linguist, and founder of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Ahatanhel Krymsky; and…

Tags: 19th century| 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: Ukrainian Institute of National Memory

Language: Ukrainian

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…

Tags: 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| Kyiv

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