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Creator: Державний архів Рівненської області

Language: Russian

Digitized archival documents are divided into two chronological categories: "Окупаційний період" (occupation period) and "Радянський період" (Soviet period), although the documents within these categories extend beyond those chronological boundaries. The occupation period documents feature OUN, UPA, and partisan documents from 1936-1957, especially World War II. The "Soviet period" documents…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Rivne

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 Одеської області

Language: Ukrainian

The Odesa oblast archive has digitized archival documents from throughout the region's modern history. To access digital files, click "Електронний архів: фонди, описи, документи" (digital archive: collections, descriptions, documents) on the right-hand toolbar. Besides archival finding aids, many original primary sources are digitized. These include the 1897 Odesa census; metric books and birth…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Odesa

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 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 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: 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 Кіровоградської області.

Tags: 20th century| Kirovohrad

Creator: Державний архів Хмельницької області

Language: Russian

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…

Tags: 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| Khmelnytsky| Volhynia

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: Державний архів Харківської області

Language: Ukrainian

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…

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

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

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 Чернівецької області

Language: Ukrainian

The Chernivtsi oblast archive's digital collection covers much of the region's 20th century history, under Polish, Soviet, and independent Ukrainian rule. On the left hand toolbar click "Електронний архів" (digital archive) and then choose "дорадянські фонді" (pre-Soviet collections) for 1918-1944 archive documents and "радянські фонді" (Soviet collections) for 1940-1991 photo materials. The…

Tags: 20th century| Chernivtsi

Creator: Державний архів Чернігівської області

Language: Ukrainian

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…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Chernihiv

Creator: Shevchenko Portal

Language: Ukrainian

Dedicated to celebrated Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, and intellectual Taras Shevchenko, also known as Kobzar ("the bard"). The collection includes scans of Shevchenko's original handwritten writings, published works, paintings and illustrations, and personal and biographical documents. Click the three-lines icon on the lefthand toolbar to access the menu.

Tags: 19th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Національна бібліотека України імені В. І. Вернадського

Language: Ukrainian

Database of publications by the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences dating back to the 1920s. While much of the content is from recent years, users can search by date to find historic publications. Especially rich for archaeological expeditions in Ukraine during the Soviet period.

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

Creator: Российская национальная библиотека

Language: Russian

The Russian National Library's online collection of digitized newspapers includes many newspapers from Ukraine in both Ukrainian and Russian languages. Collections are especially rich for the mid-19th century through the 1940s, but researchers will find materials for as early as the 1700s and as late as the 2000s. Collections are organized by city, so the researcher must know which cities they are…

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

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: Miriam Dobson and Nadezhda Beliakova

Language: English

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…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine