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Creator: Наукова бібліотека Чернівецький національний університет

Language: Ukrainian

A specific yet detailed source for studies of 19th century Habsburg Ukraine. The Chernivtsi National University in Western Ukraine provides digitized scans of the regional newspaper "Bukovina" for the years 1885 and 1886. Prominent literary and intellectual figures contributed to the newspaper, which was largely dedicated to growing Slavic identity in the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Tags: 19th century| Chernivtsi

Creator: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Language: English

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…

Tags: 20th century| Chornobyl

Creator: Чорнобильська історична майстерня

Language: Russian

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…

Tags: 20th century| Chornobyl

Creator: Central State Archive of Public Associations of Ukraine

Language: Ukrainian

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.

Tags: 20th century| Chornobyl

Creator: Central State Electronic Archive of Ukraine

Language: Ukrainian

The Central State Electronic Archive holds several digitized collections on its website (despite the name, other electronic holdings must be accessed at the physical archive). These include metric books collections from Donetsk, Crimea, and Sevastopol; records from German occupation in the 1940s (in German language); and state security records for Ukraine for 1916-1941. Metric books collections…

Tags: 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| Crimea| Dnipro| Donetsk| Odesa| Zhytomyr

Creator: Державний архів Дніпропетровської області

Language: Russian

The Dnipropetrovsk oblast archive website holds digitized documents from the region's early Soviet history, especially on famine and repression, as well as church and synagogue metric books. Under the heading "elektronyy arkhiv" on the lefthand toolbar, "kartoteky" holds the registration cards of people (including kulaks) deported from Ukraine and sent to special settlements in the 1930s and1940s.…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Dnipro

Creator: Державний архів Донецької області

Language: Russian

A collection of hundreds of digitized metric books from different church and synagogue districts in Donetsk region from 1800-1928. These historical records document local births, marriages, and deaths.

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Donetsk

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

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

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

Language: Ukrainian

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.

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Dnipro| Galicia| Kyiv

Creator: Національна бібліотека України імені Ярослава Мудрого

Language: Ukrainian

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…

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| ancient Ukraine| Dnipro| Kharkiv| Kyiv| Kyivan Rus'| Middle Ages| Odesa

Creator: Меморіальний центр Голокосту "Бабин Яр"

Language: Ukrainian

A multimedia project on Babyn Yar and the history of the Holocaust, WWII, and the Soviet period in Ukraine by the Holocaust Memorial Center of Babyn Yar in Kyiv. The entire website is worth exploring, but two main areas will be of use to researchers. For a large digital library collection featuring many different kinds of sources, go to "library" (бібліотека) and then "explore library" (дослідити…

Tags: 20th century| Chernihiv| Chernivtsi| Dnipro| Kharkiv| Kherson| Kropivinsky| Kyiv| Lviv| Mikolaiv| Odesa| Poltava| Zaporizhzhia

Creator: Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine

Language: Ukrainian

The online document exhibitions of the Central State Historical Archive reveal a rich array of metric books, law books, parish registers, and religious and military documents from different Ukrainian provinces over several centuries. One can find metric book information on various religious communities, including Jews, Lutherans, and Orthodox Christians.

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| Chernihiv| Chernivtsi| Dnipro| Kharkiv| Kyiv| Middle Ages| Odesa| Podil| Poltava| Sumy| Ternopil| Vinnytsia| Volyn

Creator: Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lviv

Language: Ukrainian

The Central State Historical Archive in Lviv has digitized four major collections on its website. These include:
F. 12, op. 1: legal rulings and acts of the Perevorsk district court, 15th-18th centuries;
F. 132, op.1: letters of state, civil, and church leaders of Ukraine, Poland, and other countries 1516-1888 (includes notable figures such as Boris Khmelnytsky);
F. 310 op. 1, archives of…

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| Lviv

Creator: Державна архівна служба України

Language: Ukrainian

The State Archival Service of Ukraine has compiled unique documents from across Ukraine's archives into one digitized collection. Here one can find notable and rare sources from across 1000 years of Ukrainian history. Highlights include 12th century birch bark deeds with proto-Ukrainian language; diplomatic and religious documents from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; photos of 19th century…

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| Chernihiv| Khmelnytsky| Kyiv| Lviv| Middle Ages| Zakarpattia| Zhytomyr

Creator: Odesa I. Mechnikov University

Language: Ukrainian

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.

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| Odesa

Creator: Державний архів Вінницької області

Language: Ukrainian

While this site holds a large number of rich archival sources, the digitized collection is somewhat difficult to navigate. For the committed researcher, however, the time taken to identify useful sources is worthwhile. Uploaded digitized files correspond to their opisy (descriptions), uploaded in a separate file. To navigate these collections, the researcher should locate the corresponding opis'…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Vinnytsia

Creator: Державний архів Волинської області

Language: Latin

Digitized archive documents are found at the "Колекція документів на пергаменті Державного архіву Волинської області" (collection of documents on parchment from the State Archive of Volyn Oblast) and "Електронні справи" (digital files) hyperlinks on the given webpage. The former holds major documents on religious and political history in Latin and Polish. The latter holds rich town and village…

Tags: 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| Volyn

Creator: Державний архів Закарпатської області

Language: Ukrainian

Materials available on the Zakarpattia Oblast archive website are all links to other sites (Arcanum, Czech KGB archive and Hungaricana, all listed on the Fontes database) or finding aids for documents held in the physical archive (not scans of the actual documents).

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Zakarpattia