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Russian Archives Online (RAO) is an online collection of Russian and Soviet-related archives and other sources of film footage, photographs, and fine art featuring support materials and robust archival search engine.
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Digital library of the Russian National Library, providing free access to a large number of digitized pre-revolution and Soviet literature.
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The official YouTube channel of the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents, currently containing more than 160 historical movie clips.
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The official YouTube channel of the National Archives of Armenia, where you can find numerous Soviet Armenian films, cartoons, and video clips from the Soviet era.
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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet books on a variety of topics.
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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares popular science, documentary, and educational films of the USSR.
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The official YouTube channel of the Russian State Fond of Television and Radio programs. It presents video recordings of Soviet TV programs, including films and TV series, news, music, documentaries, programs on sports and culture, etc.
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An ongoing digital project of the State Historical Archive of Sakhalin Oblast that digitizes and presents Soviet films and video recordings about Sakhalin. By February 2022, more than 300 films and video clips had been digitized under the project, and they will be gradually published online in the…
Online exhibitions of archival documents on various topics. The "Nakhodki arkhivistov" section is constantly being updated and has a lot of interesting documents on various themes, such as the Great Terror, local cultural celebrities, local education, etc.
Digital archive of audio and visual materials of the Latvian State Archives of Audiovisual Documents.
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Several digital document collections provided by the Central State Archive of Scientific-Technical Documentation of Kazakhstan on Kazakhstan's national scientists and scientific and technological development during the Soviet times.
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Digital projects based on archival documents from the State Archive of Penza oblast.
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Plentiful interesting digital exhibitions and projects based on archival documents from the State Archive of Contemporary History of Novgorod Oblast covering extensive topics.
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A number of exhibitions on different topics based on abundant archival documents. But the exhibitions are mostly presented in PDF files, which users have to download or view online.
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Extensive online exhibits and projects based on archival materials from the Perm State Archive of Socio-political History as well as materials from other sources, covering plenty of social, political, economic, and cultural topics.
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Document collection that contains documents and photographs related to the establishment and development of the Buryat ASSR, and post-war socialist construction in the republic.
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Online exhibitions of archival documents from the State Archive of Kemerovo Oblast. Topics include nationalities, local intellectuals, scientific and cultural development, etc.
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Online exhibitions of archival documents from the State Archive of the Volgograd Oblast, covering a variety of topics in Soviet history.
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Online exhibitions of the Russian State Military Archive.
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Online exhibition dedicated to Northern American Finns who migrated to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s.
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A site with archival exhibitions of the State Archive of Bryansk Oblast, including photographs, official documents, etc.
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Princeton University Library's digitized collections of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian materials. These collections include many rare and unique materials, a selection of which are remotely accessible to interested researchers through the Library’s digital portals. Princeton’s most intensive…
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Digital local study library developed by the Krasnoyarsk State Universal Scientific Library. It contains a lot of Soviet-era local periodicals and books from/about the region.
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This digital archive provides access to digitized photographs, postcards, drawings, and posters stored in the fonds of the State Security Committee of the Lithuanian SSR (KGB), the Lithuanian Communist Party (LKP), the Ministry of the Interior of the Lithuanian SSR (MVD), as well as descriptions of…
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Digital library of Penza Oblast Library, containing hundreds of digitized Soviet books and periodical issues, most of which were published locally.
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Digital library of the National Library of the Republic of Karelia, containing many digitized local publications of the Soviet period. It also has a lot of publications and manuscripts in Finnish language.
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Digital library of the Russian Academy of Sciences that provides open access to extensive digitized academic publications as well as relevant archival documents, museum objects, and photographs.
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Digital information portal on the Great Patriotic War in Leningrad that includes various databases, digital projects, online exhibitions, and downloadable document collections. One can find a lot of interesting documents following the links to different projects on this page.
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Huge digital archive containing extensive archival documents from all over the world.
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Online database that contains numerous digital copies of Soviet periodical publications.
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Digital collection of journals and newspapers, mostly published in the Soviet era. Here you can access many important Soviet periodicals freely, such as Ogonek, Literaturnaia gazeta, and Sovetskii Soiuz.
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Archive of Lithuanian movies from 1930 till today, containing thousands of Soviet Lithuanian productions.
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Digital library of Tomsk Oblast Pushkin Universal Scientific Library, providing access to extensive digital copies of Soviet-era local publications.
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Digital library of the National Library of the Chechen Republic, containing books and periodicals published locally during the Soviet times.
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Digital library of the N.A. Nekrasov Library, containing tons of digitized pre- and post-1917 publications that can be viewed online.
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A lot of interesting and informative digital projects based on archival documents from seven major archives of Saint-Petersburg, covering plenty of well-known and less-known topics in Russian and Soviet history.
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Plentiful interesting exhibitions based on abundant archival materials.
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Online exhibitions of archival documents from the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia, mainly covering local history.
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Digital library that contains digital books, periodicals, photographs, videos, and audio materials on the history, people, and culture of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and the city of Birobidzhan.
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Digital archive of major Soviet journals.
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Digital collections of extensive published and unpublished materials at the Presidential Library of Russia.
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