samizdat
Yuri Daniel
Andrei Amal'rik
Aleksandr Sviashch
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Vladimir Albrecht
Vladimir Bukovsky
Small collection of samizdat works on a site dedicated to the work of Soviet religious and secular thinkers and writers.
"Vekhi" Library
Link to the Resource
Digital library
Russian
USSR
#исторический-источник (VK wall) (#historical-source (VK wall))
World War I
Russian Revolution
Russian Civil War
industrialization
collectivization
political repression
Great Patriotic War
Cold War
Perestroika
New Economic Policy
A VK page devoted to various historical sources. It contains a motley group of sources on various topics in Russian history (each post is on a separate theme) and is mostly made up of the posts of "student-istorik," an account for humor and educational resources created by students of the Moscow State University historical faculty.
@student-istorik
Digital document collection
Russia
Jewish
anti-Semitism
nationality
culture
war
military
World War II
propaganda
education
women
holiday
festival
political leader
religion
Judaism
POW
holocaust
architecture
personal narrative
The Blavatnik Archive is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to preserving and disseminating materials that contribute to the study of 20th-century Jewish and world history, with a special emphasis on World War I, World War II, and Soviet Russia. This digital archive now contains over 113,000 items of various types.
Len Blavatnik
Digital archive
English
German
Yiddish
Ukrainian
Polish
other
Germany
France
Ukraine
Lithuania
Poland
Austria
Belarus
Czech Republic
Israel
Uzbekistan
Europe
Asia
Central Asia
Latvia
Kazakhstan
Georgia
South Caucasus
Estonia
Baltics
Eastern Europe
China
Azerbaijan
Hungary
Bulgaria
Moldova
Romania
Mongolia
Stalin
personal cult
Oral history project on the death of Stalin. The project has collected more than 100 witness accounts on what happened on the day of Stalin's death.
1953
Digital project
Культура Алтая в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945 (The Culture of Altai in the Years of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945)
Documentary collection downloadable from the site of the state archive of the Altai Krai. It includes documents, drawings, and statistics about Altai culture during the Great Patriotic War.
A. P. Anashkin et al.
Altai Krai
art
painting
literature & arts
Digital collections on the site of the A. S. Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum. They contain images of art from Russia and Western Europe during various historical periods, but can be filtered by country and/or date of creation to find Soviet art.
A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art
Digital collection
Фундаментальная электронная библиотека "Русская литература и фольклор" (ФЭБ) (The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore (FEB))
literature
humanities
folklore
Digital information system that provides free access to digital texts of Russian literary works and folklore, and scholarly research and encyclopedic information on them.
A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Электронная библиотека ИМЛИ РАН (Digital Library of A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Digital library of the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, containing digital copies of Russian and Soviet literary publications, including literary works, literary studies, and literary journals editions, from the imperial period till today.
urban history
economy
sport
everyday life
agriculture
music
healthcare
infrastructure
army
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.
ABAmedia
Egypt
Cuba
global
國史館史料文物查詢系統 (Collections Online Search, Academic Historica) (Taiwan)
intelligence
foreign relations
Sino-Soviet relations
1929 Sino-Soviet conflict
Manchuria
World War Ⅱ
Comintern
communism
trade
diplomacy
law
foreign policy
press
Chinese migrants
Xinjiang
legal source
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)
Chinese
Japanese
Japan
國家歷史檔案整合平台 (National Historical Archives)
migration
espionage
White Army
Digital archival information system that provides open access to numerous digitized archival documents from major archival institutions of Taiwan. Here you can find thousands of Soviet-related documents and access many of them directly from the website.
USA
蔣經國留俄回憶錄 (1925-1937) (Chiang Ching-kuo's memoir on his days in Soviet Russia (1925-1937))
English transcription of the memoir of Chiang Ching-kuo (Chiang Kai-shek's son) on his study experience in Soviet Russia during 1925-1937.
Казанский университет: Историко-культурный ландшафт (Kazan University: Historical-Cultural Landscape)
science
local administration
social sciences
nationalities
local history
intellectual
natural science
Tatar
Digital library of the Kazan Federal University, containing tens of thousands of digital copies of local periodical issues, books, manuscripts, university publications, and other types of materials. In particular, it has a huge newspaper collection, where you can find digitized local newspapers in different languages from the pre-Revolution era to today.
Academic Library of Kazan Federal University
Kazan
Tatarstan
От солдата до генерала. Воспоминания о войне (From Soldier to General: Memories about War)
soldiers
memory
Digitized document collection of war memoirs from the Great Patriotic War. It is a collaboration between the Academy of Military-Historical Sciences and the Council of Veterans of the Fourth Guard Tank Army to preserve the memoirs of the veterans of this army.
Academy of Historical Sciences of Russia
75-летие Победы (The 75th Anniversary of Victory)
Commemorative page for the 75th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War on the official site of the Administration of the Ordzhonikidze Raion. It contains a few resources about the experience of the war by citizens of the district, as well as a few reference sources about the contents of relevant archives.
Administration of Ordzhonikidze Raion
Online exhibition
Ordzhonikidze district (Republic of Khakassia)
Выставки Агентства по делам архивов Астраханской области (Exhibitions of the Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast)
Astrakhan Oblast
Akhtubinsk
construction
Battle of Stalingrad
Ikrianinskii District
fishing
canning
collective farm
labor
natural gas
industry
youth
archive
scholarship
hospital
medicine
evacuation
letter
pioneer organization
veteran
A number of exhibits on social and economic life in the Astrakhan oblast, as well as on the participation of individuals and groups within the region in the Great Patriotic War. There is also some material on politics and administration.
Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast
Выставки Агентства по делам архивов Астраханской области (Exhibitions of the Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast)/Old Version
political institution
Online exhibits on the old website of the Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast.
Книжная коллекция редких изданий Аги (Rare Book Collection of Agi)
Mongol
Buriat
translation
internationalism
orthography
linguistics
expedition
Several digitized books from the rare book collection of the Aginskaya Regional Library (Zabaykalsky Krai), including publications in old Mongol script and the Buryat translations of Russian classical literary works.
Aginskaya Krai Zhamtsarano Library
Mongolian
Zabaykalsky Krai
Siberia
Полнотекстовые базы данных Библиотеки Аль-Фараби (Full-text Databases of the Al-Farabi Library)
physics
Abai
poetry
history
geography
Full-text databases of the scientific library of the Kazakh National University named after Al-Farabi. Here you can find digital copies of many Soviet Kazakhstani academic publications.
Al-Farabi Library
Kazakh
French
Italian
Georgian
Armenian
Azeri
Arabic
Greek
Spanish
Belarusian
Turkestan
Демография России и Российской империи на интернете (The Demography of Russia and the Russian Empire on Internet)
statistics
late Soviet period
Resource on the demography of tsarist and Soviet Russia compiled by two academics, Aleksandr Avdeev of Moscow State University and Alain Blum of Institut national d'études démographiques and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en sciences sociales. It contains a number of demographic data and maps.
Aleksandr Avdeev
Alaim Blum
Sergei Dovlatov
journalism
Website dedicated to Sergei Dovlatov, where you can find digitized texts of his works, photographs, drawings, and memoirs on the writer.
Aleksandr Daniliuk
Журналы 1920-х гг. (Magazines of the 1920s)
printing
A website with numerous full-text thick journals from the 1920s. It is part of a website on 20th-century Russian (primarily Soviet) literature supported by the Soros Fund.
Aleksandr Galushin
Konstantin Polivanov
Lev Turchinskii
Andrei Bogachev
Olga Kaziutina
Red Army
Great Terror
Site with numerous documents (including directives, soldiers' personal documents, instructions, etc.) for Red Army soldiers, many of them from 1917-1945. The site is run by a group of colleagues led by Mikhailovskaia Artillery Military Academy scholar V. M. Mil'bakh.
Aleksandr Kiian et al.
Добровольческий корпус (Volunteer Corps)
emigre
A site with numerous memoirs of white officers. It also contains a few photographs and images of archival documents on the same theme.
Aleksandr Makarov
Elena Glebova
Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen (History of the Volga Germans)
Volga German
nationalities policy
A site created by Russian enthusiast of Volga German history Alexander Spak containing detailed information on the history of Volga German settlements until 1941, when the mass deportation of Soviet Germans to Siberia and Central Asia began amid the Nazi German invasion of the U.S.S.R., and on the fate of Germans thereafter. The site contains Soviet books about the Volga German ASSR, official documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings.
Aleksandr Shpak
Volga German ASSR
Исторические материалы (Historical Materials)
KGB
NKVD
security service
secret police
Gulag
kolkhoz
Beria
Bukharin
justice
Gosplan
Zhdanov
Zinoviev
Kirov
cartography
dekulakization
Molotov
Trotsky
Politburo
population
demographics
housing
foreign trade
rehabilitation
transportation
A private digital project that provides open access to a huge number of primary sources for researching Russian and Soviet history, including published materials, archival documents (transcriptions), statistics, and photographs.
Aleksei Markov
Aleksandr Tsypin
Nikolai Slavnitskii
Olga Osipova
Окрестности Петербурга (The Outskirts of St. Petersburg)
railroad
St. Petersburg
Kronstadt Rebellion
Karelia
Vyborg
international relations
Winter War
Soviet-Finnish relations
Site about the local history of St. Petersburg and surrounding areas. It provides access to numerous primary source materials (orders, memoir collections, etc.) about important events in the region as well as about the history of Soviet-Finnish relations.
Aleksei Shvarev
Finland
national culture
Website devoted to the history of Azerbaijan. It includes numerous documents (orders, congress proceedings, reports, notes, etc.) on the subject, as well as some images of Soviet-era currency.
Aliya Gurbanova
Azerbaijani
Nicholas II
Alexander Kerensky
Page from an educational site about the Russian Revolution. It includes numerous major documents relating to the events of the revolution in English translation.
Alpha History
Электронная Сибирь: Communities and Collections (Electronic Siberia: Communities and Collections)
general
Digital repository of four state libraries in Siberia and the Altai region, which provides free access to abundant digitized regional publications.
Altai Krai V. Ia. Shishkov Universal Scientific Library
Kemerov Oblast V. D. Fedorov Scientific Library
Novosibirsk Oblast State Scientific Library
Tomsk Oblast Pushkin Universal Scientific Library
Постигая Алтай. Электронная библиотека Алтая: Коллекции (Understanding Altai: The Electronic Library of Altai: Collections)
academics
virgin lands campaign
Electronic library of the V. Ia. Shishkov Altai Krai Universal Scientific Library. It contains numerous resources (books, archival documents, maps, etc.) on the local history of Altai Krai, as well as collections of local newspapers.
Altai Region V. Ia. Shishkov Universal Scientific Library
deportation
mass operations
purge
Memorial site devoted to the victims of Soviet political repression. It is primarily devoted to collecting information about victims, but also includes numerous archival documents and photographs of use to historians.
Andrei Shalaiev
Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war)
military strategy
Site with numerous military maps that describe the events of the Great Patriotic War.
Andrey Lopatnev
Антисоветская Электронная Библиотека: исторические материалы и книги (Anti-Soviet Electronic Library: Historical Materials and Books)
dissident
anti-Soviet
Digital collection of various materials (books, memoirs, samizdat, fictions) on the Soviet Union from an anti-Soviet perspective.
Anti-Soviet Electronic Library: Historical Materials and Books
Абхазская интернет-библиотека (Abkhaz Internet-Library)
ethnography
language
folk culture
children
local study
Digital library containing books, periodicals, and other types of materials related to Abkhazia.
Abkhaz
Abkhazia
В едином строю - к социализму (In United Order - To Socialism)
metallurgy
Five-year plan
Collaborative project between archives of Tatarstan and Chelyabinsk Oblast, dedicated to the period of industrialization in Chelyabinsk Oblast and the role of Tatar migrants in it.
Archival Administration of Chelyabinsk Oblast
Archives of Tatarstan
Ulyanovsk Oblast
Ural
Magnitogorsk
Виртуальные выставки Архивной службы Курской области (Online Exhibitions of the Archival Administration of Kursk Oblast)
October Revolution
cinema
World War Ⅰ
Archival Administration of Kursk Oblast
Kursk Oblast
Электронные выставки архивов Ленинградской области (Digital Exhibitions of the Archives of Leningrad Oblast)
commerce
theater
family
Numerous well-organized online exhibits of archival documents from Leningrad oblast, covering various topics in the region's history.
Archival Administration of Leningrad Oblast
Leningrad Oblast
Архивы Ленинградской области (Archive of Leningrad Oblast)
Archival information portal for archives in Leningrad Oblast. You can find useful sources under "Projects" (on homepage), "Thematic Databases" (under the "LOGAV" tab), and "Electronic Exhibitions" sections.
Online database
Выставки Архивного агентства Кыргызской Республики (Exhibitions of the Archival Agency of the Kyrgyz Republic)
Turdakun Ucubaliev
Several digital exhibitions of archival documents from archives in Kyrgyzstan.
Archival Agency of the Kyrgyz Republic
Kyrgyzstan
Leningrad Blockade
partisan
guerilla warfare
industrial development
light industry
film
oral history
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.
Archival Committee of Saint-Petersburg
Leningrad
Tikhvin
Kronshtadt
Блокада Ленинграда. Эвакуация (Leningrad Blockade. Evacuation.)
Database on individuals evacuated from Leningrad during the Leningrad Blockade.
Мгновения объективной истории России и Венгрии (Moments of Objective History of Russia and Hungary)
Online exhibition of photographs taken by 20th-century Russian and Hungarian photographers that present the everyday life and urban landscapes of the two countries and their bilateral relations.
Электронная библиотека Архивной службы Курской области (Digital Library of the Archival Service of Kursk Oblast)
peasantry
socialist construction
Revolution
Party organization
historiography
Digital library of the Archival Administration of Kursk Oblast that provides access to PDF versions of a bunch of Soviet publications on the Kursk region, as well as some imperial Russian publications.
Archival Service of Kursk Oblast
Архивная служба Воронежской области (Archival Service of Voronezh Oblast)
Voronezh Oblast
German occupation
Ivan Vrachev
Voronezh
state
writing
Administration of Culture
technology
engineering
Russian Artists' Union
health
doctor
economics
agronomy
plays
space program
astronautics
puppet theater
periodicals
komsomol
social services
N. N. Burdenko Voronezh State Medical University
civil society
Russian Children's Fond
Soviet World Fond
Russian World Fond
students
construction brigade
South-Western Railroad
hero of socialist labor
Baikalo-Amur Railroad
Kseniia Zorikina
Danila Kutsygin
reconstruction
home front
concentration camp
prisoners
defence
Soviet-Afghan War
Website of the Archival Service of Voronezh Oblast. It includes a number of small exhibits on the social, economic, cultural, and political life of the oblast, as well as a commemorative page on the Great Patriotic War.
Archival Service of Voronezh Oblast
Человек, Политик, Дипломат (к 90-летию со дня рождения В. И. Воротникова) (Man, Politician, Diplomat (To the 90th Anniversary of the Birth of V. I. Vorotnikov))
Vitalii Vorotnikov
100 лет Государственной архивной службе Воронежской области (100th Anniversary of the Archival Service of the Voronezh Oblast)
Document collection including photographs and a few archival documents about the work of the Archival Service of the Voronezh Oblast. It is displayed on this organization's website.
Andrei Sakharov
dissent
human rights
nuclear technology
Elena Bonner
The official archive of Sakharov, containing scientific works, journalism, epistolary heritage, documents of social and political activity, memoirs, personal and property documents, as well as materials for evaluating the social activities of A. Sakharov and E. Bonner (discussion materials and criticism; reviews and reviews; materials in protection and support; academic degrees, honorary titles, awards, prizes), materials for Sakharov's genealogy. Records that are not directly available on the website can be requested online.
Archive of Sakharov
Выставки Архива города Севастополя (Exhibitions of the Archive of the City of Sevastopol)
leisure
Yuri Gagarin
Archive of the City of Sevastopol
Sevastopol
Crimea
Black Sea
Комплекс архивных документов Архива города Севастополя (Complex of Archival Documents of the Archive of the City of Sevastopol)
Four digital collections of historical materials dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, including one archival document collection, one section on war participants from Sevastopol, one photo collection, and one collection of periodicals published during wartime. There are quite a few interesting documents.