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Creator: Central State Archives of Public Associations of Ukraine

Language: Ukrainian

The Central State Archives of Public Association (CDAGO) online exhibitions include numerous original scans from their archival collection. This website URL brings researchers to a list of exhibition topics spanning the breadth of modern Ukrainian history, including literary figures and movements, World War II, the Afghan War, the transfer of the capital of Ukraine from Kharkiv to Kyiv, the 1920s…

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

Creator: Центральний державний архів вищих органів влади та управління України

Language: Ukrainian

Many documents from the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine (TsDAVO) are available in digitized or published format on the archive's website. Documents are available both in published document collections as well as documentary exhibitions. To browse document collections, choose "publikatsiyi" (publications) from the main toolbar. Here you can access free…

Tags: 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st 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: Бібліотека українського мистецтва

Language: Ukrainian

A go-to website for finding Ukrainian art and artists. Browse hundreds of digital scans of paintings, photographs, postcards, exhibition catalogues, rare books, and other sources from throughout Ukrainian history. Users can search by artist or keyword, or explore categories organized by art movement, medium, chronological period, and more. The section "eksklyusiv" (exclusive) found on the top menu…

Tags: 19th century| 20th 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: 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: 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: 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

An ongoing online project that aims to compile and make accessible the complete works of famed Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky. The digital collection includes works written, edited, and collaborated on by Hrushevsky; studies of Hrushevksy; his personal documents and correspondence as well as those of people close to him; archival, state, legal, and financial documents related to…

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

Creator: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Language: English

A major North American center for the study of the Jews of Eastern Europe, YIVO offers a great bulk of its archival materials in digital, open-access form. At the given link, browse through several YIVO digital archive projects pertaining to the Jewish history of Eastern Europe and migration. While there is no set collection pertaining to contemporary Ukraine, users can find many sources related…

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

Creator: Blavatnik Archive Foundation

Language: English

The Blavatnik Archive is a non-profit organization that collects materials on 20th century Jewish life not typically found in standard archives: postcards, ephemera, correspondence, and more. About 15 percent of the archive's content is available online, and this number continues to grow as the foundation uploads more materials. Online collections offer rich materials on Jewish life and…

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

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: 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: 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 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

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 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: 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: 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: 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