Государственный музей В. В. Маяковского (State Museum of V. V. Mayakovsky)
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Liudmilla Mayakovskaya
culture
literature
textiles
fashion
intellectual
literature & arts
Digital exhibits from the State Museum of V. V. Mayakovsky.
The Moscow Department of Culture
Link to the Resource
Digital collection
Russian
USSR
Russia
Государственный музей Владимира Высоцкого (State Vladimir Vysotskii Museum)
music
Vladimir Vysotskii
Digital exhibits from the State Vladimir Vysotskii Museum.
Музей инстории ГУЛАГа (Museum of Gulag History)
Gulag
crime
political police
labor camp
prisoners
political repression
Great Terror
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Gulag History.
Дом русского зарубежья А. Солженицына (The A. Solzhenitsyn Museum of Russian Emigration )
emigration
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
emigre
Digital exhibits from the A. Solzhenitsyn Museum of Russian Emigration
global
Школа акварели Сергея Андрияки (Sergei Andriyaka Watercolor Painting School)
Sergei Andriyaka
art
Digital exhibits from the Sergei Andriyaka Watercolor Painting School.
Мультимедия Арт Музей, Москва (Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow)
Digital exhibits from the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow.
Музей-усадьба "Кусково" ("Kuskovo" Museum)
museum
leisure
parks and gardens
Digital exhibits from the "Kuskovo" Museum.
Музей-заповедник Царицыно (Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno)
Tsaritsyno
ecology
Digital exhibits from the Museum-Preserve Tsaritsyno.
urban history
everyday life
Moscow
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Moscow.
consumption
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Fashion.
Zelenograd
Digital exhibits from the Zelenograd Museum.
Мемориальный музей космонавтики (Memorial Museum of Astronautics)
space race
astronautics
aviation
Digital exhibits from the Memorial Museum of Astronautics.
Государственный музей обороны Москвы (State Museum of the Defense of Moscow)
military
Great Patriotic War
security
education
national defence
Digital exhibits from the State Museum of the Defense of Moscow.
ГМЗ Кузьминки-Люблино (State Museum-Preserve Kuz'minki–Liublino)
Kuz'minki-Liublino
infrastructure
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Kuz'minki-Liublino.
Галерея Александра Шилова (The Aleksandr Shilov Gallery)
Aleksandr Shilov
Digital exhibits from the Aleksandr Shilov Gallery.
Gallery of the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania
World War Ⅱ
deportation
political resistance
Photographs of Lithuanian anti-Soviet fighters and postwar deportees.
The Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania
Lithuanian
Lithuania
Baltics
Рассказы уйгуров, бежавших из Китая в СССР (Stories of Uyghurs who fled China to the USSR)
Sino-Soviet relations
Xinjiang
Uyghur
nationalities
migration
personal narrative
Mediazona's oral history interview with Uyghur emigrants from China to the USSR.
Mediazona
Online article
China
Central Asia
Kazakhstan
Сборники документов государственного архива в городе Ирбите (Published Collections of the State Archive of the City of Irbit)
Irbit
periodicals
Russian Revolution
Russian Civil War
Grigorii Richkalov
Online document collections published by the State Archive in Irbit.
State Archive of the City of Irbit
Digital library
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Выставки Государственного архива Архангельской области (Exhibitions of the State Archive of Arkhangelsk Oblast)
Arkhangelsk Oblast
Arctic
navy
komsomol
youth
Online exhibitions of the State Archive of Arkhangelsk Oblast, covering various topics in the region's history, such as Soviet arctic expeditions.
State Archive of Arkhangelsk Oblast
Первичные фотоматериалы Сибирского отделения Российской Академии наук: СО РАН с 1957 года (Primary Photo Materials of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences: SO RAN Since 1957.)
science
technology
academics
Academy of Sciences
scholarship
Digital repository of photographs documenting the development of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as prominent scholars from Novosibirsk.
Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Digital project
Novosibirsk Oblast
ГУЛАГ: Люди и Судьбы (Gulag: People and Fates)
children
memory
oral history
purge
Oral history interviews with former Gulag prisoners, their children, former exiles, and dispossessed kulaks
Fond Iofe
Соловки. Пасха. Тексты и воспоминания узников СЛОНа. (Solovki. Easter. Texts and memoirs of the prisoners of SLON)
Solovki
Audio recording of memoirs on the secret celebration of Easter in Soviet Solovki prison camp.
Электронная библиотека Российского государственного военного архива (Electronic Library of the Russian State Military Archive)
Spanish Russian Civil War
international relations
Revolution
Czechoslovak Legion
Digital library of the Russian State Military Archive that provides access to several published document collections.
Russian State Military Archive
Digital Library
Germany
Электронный фотокаталог Российского государственного архива кинофотодокументов (Digital Photo Catalog of the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents)
photography
army
Nicholas II
World War I
economy
Russo-Japanese War
socialist construction
foreign relations
national security
agriculture
transportation
Digital photo archive of the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents.
Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents
Digital archive
Belarus
Ukraine
Deus conservat omnia. Бог сохраняет все: Творческое наследие Анны Ахматовой (Deus conservat omnia. God Preserves All: The Artistic Heritage of Anna Akhmatova )
Anna Akhmatova
writing
poetry
Digital archive of manuscripts, notes, photographs, video clips, and audio recordings about the life and literary career of Anna Akhmatova.
Russian State Archive of Literature and Art
Коллекции - Российский национальный музей музыки (Collections of the Russian National Museum of Music)
Digital exhibits of the Russian National Museum of Music.
Russian National Museum of Music
Агитвитрины Свердловского областного краеведческого музея (Agit-Window of Sverdlovsk Oblast Regional Museum)
propaganda
Collection of Soviet posters during the Great Patriotic War.
Russian Ministry of Culture
politics
secret police
government
state
foreign policy
political institution
U.S.-Soviet relations
Digital exhibition of Russian archival documents on Soviet domestic political system and US-Soviet relations.
Rudolph Pikhoia et al.
Library of Congress
Online exhibition
USA
posters
Poster. Ru
English
French
France
N. V. Tomskii
architecture
religion
Online exhibit collection of the Novgorod Museum-Reserve.
Novgorod Museum
Novgorod
film
general
Digital archive of tens of thousands of film clips from various Russian/Soviet film studios.
Net Film
State Film Fond of Russia
TsaGA AD RT
Telecompany VID
Center of National Film, Russia
Периодические издания национальной библиотеки Ямало-ненецкого автономного округа (Periodicals of the National Library of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug)
Siberia
society
Digitized editions of newspapers and journals of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, including several old publications, such as "Kracnyi sever" and "Vremia Iamala".
National Library of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Журналы для детей (Children's Magazines)
pioneer organization
Collection of imperial Russian and Soviet magazines for children.
National Electronic Library of Russia
Революционные события и гражданская война на Алтае. 1917-1922 гт. (Revolutionary Events and the Russian Civil War in Altai. 1917-1922. )
Thematic document collection on the Revolution and Civil War in the Altai region.
N. V. Kadova
P. A. Afanasiev
Altai Krai
Память народа. 1941-1945 (People's Memory. 1941-1945)
This site is a database about servicemen/servicewomen, military engagements, and the military during the Great Patriotic War. It contains numerous documents on individuals and events.
Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
Online database
Europe
Poster Collections of the London School of Economics Digital Library
childcare
healthcare
hygiene
industrialization
British delegation
Soviet-UK relations
diplomacy
Two poster collections of the London School of Economics Digital Library, one on Soviet childcare, the other on British Labour Delegation to Russia in the 1920s and 1930s.
London School of Economics
James Maxwell Pringle
An American, James Maxwell Pringle was in Russia on business for the First National City Bank of New York in 1917 and 1918. His photographs document scenes of the Russian Revolution, and his trip through eastern Russia, China, and Korea to Japan
Встреча на границах (Meeting of Frontiers)
Alaska
colonization
empire
Meeting of Frontiers is a project, originally funded by the United States Congress, devoted to the theme of the exploration and settlement of the American West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
A huge digital library of the Library of Congress, containing many files from Russia and the former Soviet Union, including books, periodicals, photographs, paintings, maps, etc.
Кир Булычев: официальная страница писателя (Kir Bulychev: The Official Page of the Writer)
Kir Bulychev
science fiction
Official website of Kir Bulychev, a Soviet and Russian sci fi writer. Here one can find a bibliography of Bulychev's works; a set of illustrations to his works can be found under "illiustratsii k proizvedeniiam"; "fotoal'bom" contains photographs of the author; interviews can be found under "interview/besedy."
Kir Bulychev (text)
Dmitrii Vatolin (compiler)
Сибирская трагедия: идеологический аспект (The Siberian Tragedy: An Ideological Aspect)
Document collection on the Russian Civil War in Siberia, published by the State Archival Administration of the Novosibirsk Oblast and the State Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast.
K. V. Zakharov et al.
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Digital document collection
Известия Академии педагогических наук РСФСР (Izvestiia of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the RSFSR)
pedagogy
Academy of Pedagogical Sciences
Digital copies of issues of Izvestiia of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the RSFSR
K. D. Ushinskii Library
Архив номеров Литературно-художественного и общественно-политического журнала «Юность» (Archive of Issues of Literary-Artistic and Socio-Political Magazine Youth)
Digital archive of the Soviet journal "Iunost'".
Iunost' Magazine
Революция 1917 года. Русская и советская дипломатия в документах архивов МИД России (The Revolution of 1917. Russian and Soviet Diplomacy in the Documents of the Archives of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia)
A digital exhibit of archival documents related to Russian and Soviet diplomacy during the events of 1917. It includes diplomatic correspondence, photographs, and other types of documents.
Historico-Documentary Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
staliniana
historical memory
political leader
personal cult
Stalin
A digital collection of photographs, posters, political cartoons, art, etc. about Joseph Stalin on the site of the University of Pittsburgh Library System.
Helena Goscilo
Susan Corbesero
Petre Petrov (University of Pittsburgh)
Making the History of 1989: The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
fall of the Berlin Wall
fall of Communism
collapse of the USSR
A site devoted to 1980s resistance movements in Eastern Europe and the events leading up to 1989. It contains official documents, American intelligence files, photographs, posters, and other documents.
German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)
National Endowment for the Humanities
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
1989
Eastern Europe
Hungary
Poland
Yugoslavia
Albania
Bulgaria
Georgia
Czechoslovakia
Latvia
Estonia
Romania
Электронная библиотека СПбПУ (Digital Library of the Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University)
natural science
Digital library of the Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University, containing digital copies of the university's publications, including academic books and periodicals, as well as more general publications on university history and everyday life.
Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University
Leningrad
Архив журналов "Наука и жизнь" (Archive of the Magazine "Science and Life")
The official digital archive of the journal "Nauka i zhizn'", which provides free access to a limited number of digitized Soviet-era issues.
Editorial board of Nauka i Zhizn'
Americans in the Land of Lenin: Photographs of Early Soviet Russia
American Expeditionary Force
collectivization
A Duke University exhibit of photographs taken between 1918 and 1930 by two Americans, officer Robert L. Eichelberger and economist Frank Whitson Fetter, who had the opportunity to visit the USSR during that time. The photographs reveal aspects of everyday social and economic life.
Duke University Library
Victor Ardov
Victor Shklovskii
Igor Shelkovskii
A digital archive of oral histories on everyday life, science, technology, and the experiences of the technical-intellectual elite in the USSR.
Moscow State University