Виртуальные проекты Архивов Санкт-Петербурга (Digital Projects of the Archives of Saint-Petersburg)
everyday life
festival
Great Patriotic War
partisan
political institution
local administration
economy
industrialization
housing
social welfare
public health
art
culture
education
literature
printing
science
industrial development
agriculture
mass media
trade
infrastructure
tourism
finance
children
medicine
light industry
archive
urban history
architecture
urban planning
women
aviation
theater
ballet
film
cinema
foreign relations
diplomacy
Armenians
nationalities
environment
ecology
guerilla warfare
sport
transportation
literature & arts
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.
Archives of Saint-Petersburg
Link to the Resource
Online exhibition
Digital project
Russian
Leningrad
Saint-Petersburg
Russia
Tikhvin
Moscow
Vietnam
Crimea
Kronshtadt
Вторая мировая война в архивных документах (комплекс оцифрованных архивных документов, кино- и фотоматериалов) (The Second World War in Archival Documents (Complex of digitized archival documents, film and photo materials))
World War Ⅱ
A Russian federal project that presents thousands of degrees and orders of the State Defence Committee of the USSR with accompanying materials as well as other types of archival materials on the Second World War. Apart from the major exhibits of the project, on the page there are two links to other online resources related to the Second World War.
Federal Archival Agency of Russia
Digital collection
USSR
Электронные выставки Государственного архива Свердловского области (Digital Exhibitions of the State Archive of Sverdlovsk Oblast)
law
justice
religion
peasantry
nature
leisure
folk culture
historiography
music
pioneer organization
technology
family
youth
genealogy
personal narrative
legal source
Plentiful interesting exhibitions based on abundant archival materials.
State Archive of Sverdlovsk Oblast
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Ural
Выставки Государственного архив административных органов Свердловской области (Exhibitions of the State Archive of Administrative Organs of Sverdlovsk Oblast)
state
society
political repression
Great Terror
migration
Russian Civil War
Revolution
Russian Harbin
social organization
A lot of well-organized and interesting online exhibitions on various topics, ranging from local history to foreign relations, such as Russians in Harbin. Most exhibitions consist of abundant interesting documents.
State Archive of Administrative Organs of Sverdlovsk Oblast
Germany
Central Asia
China
Harbin
Донские Архивы - Виртуальный архив Ростовской области (Don Archives - Digital Archive of Rostov Oblast)
local autonomy
coal
Nazi
Cossack
World War Ⅰ
political leader
oil
postal service
poetry
Fascism
A very helpful and user-friendly digital archive providing access to extensive archival materials from Rostov Oblast. In the "Виртуальный читальный зал" section, users can access finding aids for archival documents as well as some original documents. In the "Вирзуальная библиотека" section, users can read document collections published by Rostov archives, as well as some referential materials online. The digital portal also has some online exhibitions and thematic document selections under the "Интернет-проекты" section.
Don Archives - Digital Archive of Rostov Oblast
Digital archive
Rostov Oblast
Caucasus
Электронный читальный зал Пермского государственного архива социально-политической истории (Digital Reading Room of the Perm State Archive of Socio-political History)
commemoration
media
A very helpful digital portal that includes various digital projects, databases, and online exhibitions based on archival materials from the Perm region. Both thematic and chronological coverages of the projects in the digital reading room are quite extensive.
Perm State Archive of Socio-political History
Digital library
Online database
Perm
Molotovskaya Oblast
Выставки Государственного архива Пермского края (Exhibitions of the State Archive of Perm Krai)
evacuation
Armenian
Old Believer
railroad
Many well-organized, user-friendly online exhibitions and digital projects based on archival documents from the State Archive of Perm Krai, covering topics such as the 1917 Revolution, the Great Patriotic War, urban development, railway construction, local Old Believers, as well as less known themes such as Armenians in Perm Krai. These projects and exhibitions provide access to a lot of interesting documents.
State Archive of Perm Krai
Mari El
Mordovia
Sverdlovsk
Penza
Udmurt Republic
Ulyanovsk
Prikamye
Электронные издания Государственного архива современной истории Чувашской Республики (Digital Publications of the State Archive of Contemporary History of the Chuvash Republic)
Timurite movement
Russian Revolution
Chuvash national movement
Perestroika
Digital projects and online exhibits of archival documents from the State Archive of Contemporary History of the Chuvash Republic. Some projects are based on abundant archival documents and old photographs.
State Archive of Contemporary History of the Chuvash Republic
Chuvashia
Электронный читальный зал «Национальный архив» Республики Хакасия (Digital Reading Room "National Archive" of the Republic of Khakassia)
water management
military
state authorities and institutions
health
economic planning
This digital reading room provides access to digital finding aids for documents in the National Archive of the Republic of Khakassia. However, you can only access the documents per se in person at the archive.
National Archive of the Republic of Khakassia
Khakas
Khakassia
Виртуальные выставки Национального архива Республики Карелия (Online exhibitions of the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia)
Orthodox Church
Online exhibitions of archival documents from the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia, mainly covering local history.
National Archive of the Republic of Karelia
Republic of Karelia
Neubrandenburg
Sweden
Peterozavodsk
Интернет-проекты Российского государственного архива фонодокументов (Online Projects of the Russian State Archive of Phonodocuments)
Russian Arctic
party and state leaders
Antarctic
Red Army
October Revolution
aerospace
Online projects of the Russian State Archive of Phonodocuments covering various topics, such as the October Revolution, the Russian Russian Civil War, two World Wars, the Russian Arctic and Antarctic, leaders' speeches, the Soviet space program, and Soviet cinema.
Russian State Archive of Phono Documents
Arctic
Stalingrad
Электронная библиотека - Историческое и культурное наследие Еврейской автономной области (Digital Library - Historical and Cultural Heritage of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast)
Jewish
Birobidzhan
local study
history
national culture
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.
Historical and Cultural Heritage of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Yiddish
Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Far East
Akhiva Digitală a Republicii Sovietice Socialiste Moldoveneşti (Digital Archive of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova)
press
atheism
demographics
folklore
Digital library of various types of published materials from the Moldova SSR.
Vitalie Sprinceana
Romanian
Moldova
Периодические издания и краеведческие материалы Ленинградской области (Periodical Publications and Local Study Materials of Leningrad Oblast)
local history
Party organization
Free access publications include "Leninskoe znamia", "Novyi pit", "Znamia truda", and regional versions of "Pravda".
Leningrad Oblast Universal Scientific Library
Leningrad Oblast
The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
foreign policy
World War I
Cold War
U.S.-Soviet relations
Digital archive containing 20th-Century US legal documents on American diplomacy. You can find many documents on Soviet-US relations here.
Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Law Library
English
global
Soviet Archives Collected by Vladimir Bukovsky
secret police
NKVD
KGB
Vladimir Bukovsky
Communist Party
terror
Comintern
ideology
Soviet-Afghan War
dissident
Soviet archives collected by Vladimir Bukovsky on various domestic political and foreign policy issues.
Julia Zaks
Leonid Chernikhov
Asia
Africa
Europa
Poland
Afghanistan
fashion
astronautics
radio
propaganda
Digital archive of major Soviet journals.
Viktor Yudichev@narod.ru
Исторические источники. Хронос (Historical Sources. Khronos)
collectivization
late Soviet period
general
New Economic Policy
A private digital collection of extensive imperial Russian and Soviet documents on various topics.
Viacheslav Rumiantsev
Документы ХХ века (Documents of the XX Century)
Belarus
Ukraine
Austria
Azerbaijan
Armenia
Bulgaria
Georgia
Israel
India
Kyrgyzstan
Kazakhstan
Latvia
LIthuania
Estonia
Mongolia
Tajikistan
Romania
Uzbekistan
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Japan
Мир Петербурга: Портал Центра петербурговедения библиотеки им. В. В. Маяковского (The World of Petersburg: The Portal of the V. V. Mayakovaky Center of Petersburg Studies)
St. Petersburg
This website contains a large amount of material about the history of St. Petersburg. Particularly useful are the "knigi o peterburge" and the "online-biblioteka" tabs. In the online library, the "kollektsii" and "Peterburg v gazetnykh illiustratsiiakh" are particularly interesting.
V. V. Mayakovaky Center of Petersburg Studies
Документы Организации Объединенных Наций (Documents of the United Nations)
international relations
arms race
disarmament
human rights
Digital archive of United Nations documents, where one can find many historical files related to the Soviet Union.
The United Nations
Chinese
Arabic
French
Spanish
Электронная библиотека Санкт-Петербургской государственной театральной библиотеки (Electronic Library of the St. Petersburg State Theater Library)
dramaturgy
A collection of documents and materials on the performing arts: archival documents and letters from theater workers, dramatic works, art periodicals, books, original sketches of theater artists, etc.
St. Petersburg State Theater Library
Собрание рукописей и старопечатных книг (Manuscripts and Out-of-print Books Collection)
Orthodox church
religious policy
A huge digital collection of church manuscripts and old books from the imperial period to the early Soviet years.
The Manuscripts Department of the Russian State Library
Central State Archive of Moscow
Division of the State Archive of Yaroslav Oblast in Rybinsk
База данных документов архива Егора Гайдара (Database of Documents of the Iegor Gaidar Archive)
Digitized documents from the archive of Yegor Gaidar, including plentiful interesting documents on the Soviet economy, foreign relations, and other questions, especially on the late Soviet period.
The Iegor Gaidar Fond
Отечественная периодика в фонде президентской библиотеки (Domestic Periodicals in the Fonds of the Presidential Library)
legislation
politics
Academy of Sciences
Komsomol
geography
Collection of digital editions of imperial Russian and Soviet periodicals.
Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library
Все коллекции Президентской библиотеки (All the Collections of the Presidential Library of Russia)
Iulian Semienov
journalism
intervention
Nicholas II
Red terror
komsomol
postwar reconstruction
sculpture
Albert Charkin
gosudarstvennost'
economics
economic regulation
state Hermitage
museum
historical preservation
Daniil Granin
industry
Kremlin
voting
elections
space program
Konstantin Tsiolkovskii
Mikhail Anikushin
Maxim Gorky
space race
memory
anarchism
emigre
Pitirim Sorokin
sociology
travel
Avant-Garde
map
Soviet-Japanese relations
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Peter Kropotkin
constitution
Olympic Games
parks and gardens
Russian-Japanese War
Lenin
volunteer
War Communism
Digital collections of extensive published and unpublished materials at the Presidential Library of Russia.
База данных документов архива Александра Н. Яковлева (Database of Documents of the Alexander N. Iakovlev Archive)
economic policy
Gulag
Digitized archival documents from the archive of Alexander Yakovlev, covering various topics in Soviet history.
The Alexander N. Yakovlev Archive
Работы А. Д. Сахарова (The Works of A. D. Sakharov)
Andrei Sakharov
Digital texts of Andrei Sakharov's publications, public speeches, interview transcriptions, and memoirs.
The A. D. Sakharov Archive
Воспоминания о ГУЛАГе и их авторы (Memoirs about the Gulag and their Authors)
crime
political police
labor camp
prisoners
Memoirs of Gulag prisoners or their descendants.
Электронная библиотека Белинки (Electronic Library "Belinki")
forestry
social sciences
humanities
healthcare
natural science
Digital library with digitized materials from libraries in the Ural region.
Sverdlovsk Oblast Belinsky Library
Sino-Soviet relations
Korean War
1929 Sino-Soviet conflict
Integrated database of digital resources from the archive and library of the Institute of Modern History of Taiwan. In the database you can find thousands of Chinese accounts on Soviet topics in this database, especially from the pre-1949 period.
Institute of Modern History, Academia SINICA
North Korea
Manchuria
Персональная биобиблиография (Bio-bibliography of Important Personages)
academics
Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
statesmen
bibliography
intellectual
A list of prominent scholars, cultural figures, and statesmen of Novosibirsk and of Russia in general. Though some of the pages include partial or full-text documents ("polnotekstovyie dokumenty), the primary use of this site is as a bibliographic resource. It gives a very clear and detailed idea of the works both by and about these figures which are available online and elsewhere.
State Public Scientific-Technical Library of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Bibliography
Novosibirsk Oblast
Online newspaper collections published by the State Archival Service of Novosibirsk Oblast.
State Archival Administration of Novosibirsk Oblast
Сборники документов и материалов государственного архива Томской области (Document and Material Collections of the State Archive of Tomsk Oblast)
Tomsk
home front
medics
deportation
Purges
Nazino Tragedy
Siberia
veteran
A number of digitized document collections published by the State Archive of Tomsk Oblast.
State Archive of Tomsk Oblast
Digital document collection
Tomsk Oblast
Публикации онлайн. Государственный архив Российской Федерации. (Online Publications of the State Archive of the Russian Federation)
Pavlo Skoropadsky
Soviet Occupation
East Germany
Anton Denikin
Russian Orthodox Church
Alexander Kolchak
Online publications, including document collections, digital projects, and thematic collections, of the Russian State Archive.
State Archive of the Russian Federation
國史館史料文物查詢系統 (Collections Online Search, Academic Historica) (Taiwan)
intelligence
communism
Chinese migrants
Xinjiang
Digital archival search and reading system of the Academia Historica of Taiwan, where you can find a lot of interesting documents from the Guomindang government and officials about the Soviet Union and Sino-Soviet relations, particularly in the Republican period in China. Most documents can be read online.
Academia Historica (Taiwan)
Japanese
Публикации онлайн - сборники документов ГАРФ (Online Publications - Document Collections of the State Archive of the Russian Federation)
rebellion
purge
Downloadable document collections of the State Archive of the Russian Federation. The collection contains 20 publications covering several major topics in Soviet history, including the Great Terror, World War Ⅱ, the Russian Orthodox Church under Soviet power, etc.
Фонды государственного архива Российской федерации (The Fonds of the State Archive of the Russian Federation)
Alexander Kerensky
Provisional Government
February Revolution
dance
Anna Pavlova
Cossacks
Ilia Erenburg
Dmitrii Shostakovitch
Duma
Battle of Stalingrad
Leningrad Blockade
July Crisis
citizenship
urban culture
Vršič Pass
celebration
Online finding aids and digital archive of the Russian State Archive.
Eastern Europe
Электронный каталог Российской государственной библиотеки (Electronic Catalog of the Russian State Library)
archaeology
chemistry
physics
mathematics
biology
linguistics
Collection of digital open-access published materials from between 1917 and 1991 in the Russian State Library. In the link, the filter "otkrytii dostup" is already selected; if it is not, one should select it in order to view publicly available books.
Russian State Library
Ukrainian
other
Winter War
The Old Hong Kong Newspapers Collection is a selective collection of major old Hong Kong Newspapers published from early Hong Kong to nowadays, aiming at preserving historical news reporting of Hong Kong for reference and research. Many newspaper articles are related to the Soviet Union. Notably, there are both Chinese-language and English-language newspapers in this database.
Multimedia Information System of Hong Kong Public Libraries
Hong Kong
Виртуальные выставки Российского государственного архива социально-политической истории (Virtual Exhibits of the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History)
Brusilov Offensive
Russian Patriarchate
Campaign against illiteracy
labor school
professional education
scholarship
Leon Trotsky
White Army
Communism
Terror
Soviet-Finnish relations
Spanish Russian Civil War
interbrigades
Vietnam War
Soviet-Vietnamese relations
Khrushchev
P.O.W.
Stalin
Virtual exhibitions of the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History
Europe
Soviet bloc
Hungarian-Soviet relations
Integrated digital archive of Hungary's major archives. Here you can find digital copies or digital transcriptions of many Communist-era documents related to Soviet-Hungarian relations.
National Archives of Hungary
Hungarian
Hungary
Военная экономика СССР--фундамент Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 г. (Wartime Economy of the USSR: The Foundation of the Victory of the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945)
military supplies
lend-lease
taxation
revenue
Document collection on Soviet economy during the Great Patriotic War.
Russian State Archive of Economy
Экономика Революции, 1917-1920 гг. (The Economy of the Revolution, 1917-1920)
Document exhibition dedicated to the economic development during the Russian Revolution and early years of the Soviet power.
Электронная библиотека исторических документов (Electronic Library of Historical Documents)
anti-Semitism
security service
administrative-territorial division
Digital library of various historical documents developed by the Russian Historical Society.
Russian Historical Society
Turkmenistan
South Caucasus
Images, photographs, and video material on Russia, East and Southeast Europe.
Osmikon
German
Imperial Russia
cartography
Digital map collections and geographical databases on Russia, East and Southeast Europe
Slovenian
Czech
Latvian
Электронная библиотека - Омская государственная научная библиотека имени А. С. Пушкина (Digital Library of the Omsk State A. S. Pushkin Scientific Library)
administration
writing
Digital library of the Omsk State A. S. Pushkin Scientific Library.
Omsk Oblast State Pushkin Scientific Library
Omsk Oblast
Venona program
espionage
Red Scare
Declassified National Security Agency (U.S.A.) documents of the Venona program.
National Security Agency (U.S.A.)
language
philosophy
Udmurtia
Digital book collection of the National Electronic Library of the Udmurt Republic.
National Library of the Udmurt Republic
Udmurt