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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
This project collects and digitizes literary art magazines produced in Kharkiv between the 1910s and 1930s, valuable artifacts that are otherwise scattered throughout libraries in Ukraine and often in poor condition. These valuable artifacts are works dedicated to art and theater amid the background of early 20th century revolution, and constitute works of art themselves. The project ultimately…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
The Three Revolutions project compiles sources on the three revolutions that have occurred on Kyiv's Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti) since 1990 — The Revolution on Granite (1990), the Orange Revolution (2004-2005), and the Euromaidan Revolution (2013-2014). These materials include archival documents, media, and original oral history interviews. To access the project's open access…
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…
A searchable database of Ukrainian soldiers who served during World War II. This database comprises a digitized version of the "Book of Memory of Ukraine," a document published since 1994 that lists Ukrainian soldiers who died during the Second World War. The digital project complements this information with portraits, photos of military medals, and information on partisans and prisoners of war.…
A collection of digitized archival documents on the political and social history of the Ukrainian revolution, 1917-1921. Documents largely pertain to the formation and governance of the independent Ukrainian People's Republic that existed between 1917 and 1921. The project has also compiled cultural sources from the period, including poetry and a playlist of revolutionary songs. The website also…
The Ukrainian Institute for National Memory has created and compiled a diverse range of oral histories on topics throughout modern Ukrainian history. Interviews touch on everything from the Holodomor of the 1930s through the 21st century revolutions in Ukraine.
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.
The All-Ukrainian cinema and photo management service (Всеукраїнського фотокіноуправління (ВУФКУ)) has compiled this playlist of videos from the history of Ukrainian silent film. Most of the videos are newsreels, especially from the 1910s, 20s, and 30s, documenting important moments and everyday life in early Soviet Ukraine. There are nearly 200 items in whole. Users may need to manually work…