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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: 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

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: 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

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 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: 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: 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