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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: 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: Чтиво елеткронна бібліотека

Language: Ukrainian

This free online library of Ukrainian-language literature houses open access copies of many Ukrainian works, including books and periodical publications. Researchers can explore works by genre, including historical, literary, scientific, religious, and humor, or search by author or keyword. There's a lot here, including not only classic published works but also brochures, ephemera, pulp fiction,…

Tags: 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Cossackdom.com

Language: Russian

An electronic database compiling sources and information on Ukrainian and Russian cossacks from the 15th through 21st centuries. While many documents are secondary sources, researchers can find published archival document collections, visual sources including maps and illustrations, historical songs and ethnographic collections, and more.

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine

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: 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: Diasporiana

Language: Ukrainian

Archive of writing and periodicals from the Ukrainian diaspora, particularly in North America, dating back 125 years. Includes drama, poetry, political science, children’s books, folklore, and over 8,000 periodical publications (mostly from the mid-20th century).

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

Creator: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů

Language: Czech

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…

Tags: 20th century| Ivano-Frankivsk| Lviv| Odesa| Zakarpattia| Zhytomyr

Creator: Center for Research on the Liberation Movement

Language: Ukrainian

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.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: ELibUkr (Electronic Library of Ukraine)

Language: Ukrainian

Links to the digital archives of major research institutions and universities in Ukraine. Many of these institutions and universities hold digital archives dating back to Soviet times.

Tags: 20th century| 21st century| Chernihiv| Chernivtsi| Donetsk| Kharkiv| Kyiv| Sumy| Ternopil| Vinnytsia| Zhytomyr

Creator: Національний музей історії України у Другій світовій війні

Language: Ukrainian

The digital collections of the National World War II Museum in Kyiv include several curated archival collections from the museum's holdings on topics pertaining to World War II and beyond. Users can browse by collection, with topics ranging from the Holocaust and children in WWII to the personal archive of Andrii Mykhalevych, a Ukrainian partisan fighter murdered by a KGB operation in 1951. You…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Національна бібліотека України імені В. І. Вернадського

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.

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine| ancient Ukraine| Middle Ages

Creator: Digital Maidan Archive

Language: Ukrainian

The Digital Maidan Archive is a voluntary history project created to preserve the memory of the Maidan Revolution of 2013-2014. The goal of the project is to create an electronic database of the sources about the events of the Revolution of Dignity. The site consists of three main sections: the history of the Maidan, video and photo archives.

Tags: 21st century| Kyiv

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: Інститут історії України

Language: Ukrainian

This vast database contains published document collections, oral history collections, old metric books, law collections, archival collections, and more. This is a good initial place to look for any research topic. Sources are categorized under "Е-Джерела" (E-resources) by period, and there is also a search function.

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

Creator: Національна бібліотека України імені В. І. Вернадського

Language: Ukrainian

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.

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

Creator: CIA.gov

Language: English

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.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: European Research Council

Language: English

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…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

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: 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