World War Ⅱ
Winter War
trade
Sino-Soviet relations
foreign relations
Multimedia Information System of Hong Kong Public Libraryes
Access through Multimedia Information System of Hong Kong Public Libraryes
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
Link to the Resource
Digital library
Chinese
English
Hong Kong
China
Russia
USSR
Japan
韓戰俄檔案館的解密文件 (Declassified Russian Archival Documents on the Korean War)
Korean War
Cold War
foreign policy
Digitized document collection on the Korean War, originally compiled by Shen Zhihua, a Chinese historian, and published in Taiwan. The collection contains more than 1400 pages of Chinese translations of Russian archival documents on the subject.
Institute of Modern History, Academia SINICA
Digital document collection
North Korea
South Korea
USA
women
everyday life
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.
Online database
Mongolia
Manchuria
Far East
蔣經國留俄回憶錄 (1925-1937) (Chiang Ching-kuo's memoir on his days in Soviet Russia (1925-1937))
diplomacy
Chinese migrants
Academic Historica (Taipei)
Access through Academic Historica
personal narrative
English transcription of the memoir of Chiang Ching-kuo (Chiang Kai-shek's son) on his study experience in Soviet Russia during 1925-1937.
Academia Historica (Taiwan)
Digital collection
新聞記事文庫 (神戸大学附属図書館) (Newspaper Clippings Collection (Kobe University Library))
Mukden Incident
Japanese-Soviet relations
Digital Japanese newspaper clippings collection developed by the Kobe University Library, providing open-access to articles from various Japanese newspapers published in the 20th century. Many articles are related to Japanese-Soviet-Chinese relations.
Kobe University Library
Japanese
國家歷史檔案整合平台 (National Historical Archives)
intelligence
Comintern
communism
law
press
Xinjiang
migration
espionage
propaganda
White Army
legal source
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.
Digital archive
Eastern Europe
P.O.W.
Digital archive of the National Archives Administration of Taiwan, where you can find tons of documents from various state organs of the Republic of China throughout the 20th century. Currently, hundreds of documents related to the Soviet Union and Russia have been digitized and are available on the website.
National Archives Administration of Taiwan
國史館史料文物查詢系統 (Collections Online Search, Academic Historica) (Taiwan)
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.
Sino-Soviet split
ideology
Selected Chinese and Soviet press content and archival documents that reflect the Sino-Soviet ideological debate in the 1950s and 1960s. All materials presented on the website are in Chinese.
Marxists Internet Archive
中苏联合抗击法西斯胜利70周年档案展 (Historical-Documentary Exhibition on the 70th Anniversary of the Victory of China and the Soviet Union in Collective Struggle Against Fascism)
Great Patriotic War
culture
Sino-Japanese War
Collective online exhibition of the State Archives Administration of the PRC and Russian Federal Archival Agency on the Sino-Soviet cooperation during the Second World War.
The State Archives Administration of the People's Republic of China
Federal Archival Agency of Russia
Online exhibition
Russian
Germany
中文马克思主义文库 (Chinese-language Marxist Full-text Database)
internationalism
Leninism
Marxism
anti-Revisionism
Stalin
Russian Revolution
Open-access full-text database of Chinese-language Marxist works, developed by the Marxists Internet Archive. It contains the Chinese translations of Lenin's works and many other Soviet publications. It also has many documents related to Sino-Soviet relations, such as a 21-volume document collection on the relationship between the Comintern and the CCP (共产国际、联共（布）与中国革命档案资料丛书) published by the CCP's Central Institute of Party History and Literature, and a 34-volume document collection of Soviet archival documents (苏联历史档案选编) published by China's Social Sciences Academic Press.
中国第二历史档案馆档案查询 (Archive Search of the Second Historical Archives of China)
Digital archive of the Second Historical Archives of China, currently containing digital copies of the documents of the Beiyang government and the digital catalog of documents from the Ministry of Education of the Guomindang government. A few documents are related to Soviet Russia and are available online. More items will likely be added to the digital archive in the future.
The Second Historical Archives of China
تۈركىستانىي كۇتۇپخانىسى (Library of Turkistani)
Muslim
nationalities
Uyghur
national autonomy
Islam
religion
national culture
literature
history
language
Mongol
geography
literature & arts
A huge digital library dedicated to Turkic-related topics. The website has four versions in Arabic, Turkish, English, and Uyghur, and each version presents books and periodicals in its respective language. One can find plentiful interesting publications on Muslims and Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus in different languages and published in various countries. The digital library also has a lot of materials in German, French, and Hungarian.
Library of Turkistani
Turkish
Arabic
French
German
Hungarian
Central Asia
Turkey
Azerbaijan
Caucasus
Access through Library of Turkistani
Հայաստանի Ամերիկեան համալսարանի Հայ մատենագրութեան թուանշանային գրադարան (Digital Library of Armenian Literature of the American University of Armenia)
Armenology
diaspora
historiography
philosophy
theology
pedagogy
science
linguistics
ethnography
health
travel
translation
journalism
economy
Digital library that contains thousands of digital copies of Armenian-language literature from various disciplines. Many materials were published in the Soviet era.
Digital Library of Armenian Literature of the American University of Armenia
Armenian
Armenia
Karabakh
ethnic conflict
Online database that presents periodical materials on the Karabakh conflict between Armenian and Azerbaijan from 1988 till 2016.
National Library of Armenia
Ազգային Ակադեմիա - 75 (National Academy - 75)
Academy of Sciences of Armenia
intellectual
Online database dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia. It has collected Soviet and contemporary press coverage on the Academy and prominent Armenian academics.
აფხაზეთის ვირტუალური არქივი (Virtual Archive of Abkhazia)
general
political institution
theater
A web-archive containing photos, videos, books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, and other types of materials related to Abkhazia.
National Archives of Georgia
Digital project
Georgian
Abkhaz
Georgia
Abkhazia
South Caucasus
Японские военнопленные в Приморье (1945-1949 гг.) (Japanese POWs in Primorye (1945-1949))
coal
Two-volume document collection on the labor of postwar Japanese POWs in Primorsky Krai.
State Archive of Primorsky Krai
Primorsky Krai
soldiers
veteran
Commemorative site with interviews of veterans of the Great Patriotic War supported by the Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication. It also includes soldiers' letters and audio recordings of veterans' narratives.
Artem Drabkin et al.
Это нашей истории строки (Из истории комсомольских организаций Белгородчины) (Lines of our history (From the history of Komsomol organizations of Belgorod))
Komsomol
children
youth
industrialization
collectivization
Perestroika
Online downloadable document collection dedicated to the Komsomol organizations in Belgorod Oblast throughout the Soviet period.
State Archive of Contemporary History of Belgorod Oblast
Belgorod Oblast
Этнография и фольклор Русского Севера (Ethnography and Folklore of the Russian North)
folklore
local study
ethnicity
Digital collection of published materials on the ethnography and folklore of the Russian North, including the territories of Vologda Oblast, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Republic of Karelia, and Republic of Komi.
Vologda Oblast Universal Scientific Library
Vologda Oblast
Arkhangelsk Oblast
Republic of Karelia
Komi Republic
Этно-кавказ. Этнодемография Кавказа. Подробные данные переписей населения и этнографические карты (Ethno-Caucasus. The Ethnodemography of the Caucasus. Detailed Information of Censuses of the Population and Ethnographic Maps.)
census
population
A site with demographic and ethnographic records and maps of both North and South Caucasus.
ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru
Nagorno-Karabakh
Adygea Republic
South Ossetia
Karachay-Cherkessia
Kabardino-Balkarian Republic
North Ossetia–Alania Republic
Ingushetia
Dagestan
Chechnya
Krasnodar Krai
Stavropol Krai
Электронный читальный зал Пермского государственного архива социально-политической истории (Digital Reading Room of the Perm State Archive of Socio-political History)
guerilla warfare
festival
commemoration
political repression
Great Terror
education
printing
media
Revolution
Russian Civil War
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
Perm
Molotovskaya Oblast
Электронный читальный зал Государственного архива новейшей истории Ульяновской области (Digital Reading Room of the State Archive of Contemporary History of Ulyanovsk Oblast)
evacuation
archive
production
justice
Online downloadable publications of the State Archive of Contemporary History of Ulyanovsk Oblast, among which several are document collections on different topics of Russian and Soviet history.
State Archive of Contemporary History of Ulyanovsk Oblast
Ulyanovsk Oblast
Simbirsk Province
Электронный читальный зал «Национальный архив» Республики Хакасия (Digital Reading Room "National Archive" of the Republic of Khakassia)
water management
military
state authorities and institutions
housing
art
finance
economic planning
transportation
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
Электронный фотокаталог Российского государственного архива кинофотодокументов (Digital Photo Catalog of the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents)
photography
memory
army
Nicholas II
World War I
Russo-Japanese War
socialist construction
national security
agriculture
Digital photo archive of the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents.
Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents
Belarus
Baltics
Ukraine
Kazakhstan
Электронный фотоархив ИЭА РАН (Digital Photo Archive of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences)
Kazakh
ethnology
anthropology
Korean
Azeri
Dungan
Jew
Ukrainian
Uzbek
Tatar
Tajik
Turkmen
Kyrgyz
Digital photo archive of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, containing photo documents of the Institute from the 1940s till today.
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology
Russian Academy of Sciences
Amur
Sakhalin
Stalingrad
Volga
Mordovia
Caspian Sea
Электронный фонд рукописей и редких книг - Национальная библиотека РК (Digital Fond of Manuscripts and Rare Books - National Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan)
Turkestan
A few digital copies of books and newspaper issues of Soviet Kazakhstan as well as imperial Turkestan.
National Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Электронный научный архив УрФУ (Digital Scientific Archive of the Ural Federal University)
humanities
social sciences
archaeology
philology
natural science
Digital archive of the Ural Federal University, containing digitized publications of the university, including monographs, textbooks, articles, dissertations, etc. The archive also has digital copies of Soviet-era local newspapers and journals, such as "Stalinets" and "Za industrial'nye kadry".
Ural Federal University
Ural
Электронный кинозал Государственного исторического архива Сахалинской области (SAKHАРХИВFEST) (Digital Movie Hall of the State Historical Archive of Sakhalin Oblast)
film
labor
folk culture
urban history
architecture
leisure
consumption
sport
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 future.
State Historical Archive of Sakhalin Oblast
Электронный каталог Российской государственной библиотеки (Electronic Catalog of the Russian State Library)
chemistry
physics
mathematics
technology
economics
biology
New Economic Policy
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
other
global
Электронный каталог государственных архивов Новгородской области (Electronic Catalog of State Archives of Novgorod Oblast)
local history
Digital archival information system for the State Archive of Novgorod Oblast and State Archive of Contemporary History of Novgorod Oblast, where users can search for documents and fonds information, and view digital copies of original documents without registration.
State Archive of Novgorod Oblast
State Archive of Contemporary History of Novgorod Oblast
Novgorod Oblast
Электронный библиотека ГПНТБ России (Digital Library of the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology)
urban planning
astronomy
viticulture
geology
medicine
light industry
metallurgy
industry
Crimea
ecology
energy
Digital library that provides open access to thousands of Soviet academic publications related to science and technology.
Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology
Электронный архив ЮУрГУ (Digital Archive of the South Ural State University)
Digital archive of the Ural Federal University, containing digitized publications of the university. Most of the available Soviet-era publications are on natural sciences and technologies.
South Ural State University
Электронный архив Удмуртии (Electronic Archive of Udmurtia)
Udmurtia
Electronic archive of Udmurtiia on the site of the Archives of Udmurtiia. It contains documents from Udmurt history in the Soviet period, focusing on documents about municipal and local governance.
Archive of Udmurtia
Udmurt
Электронный архив УГЛТУ (Digital Archive of the Ural State Forest Engineering University (UGLTU))
forestry
environment
Digital archive of the Ural State Forest Engineering University, containing digital copies of the university's publications from 1922 till today, including academic books and periodicals, mostly about forestry and forest engineering.
Scientific Library of the Ural State University of Forest Engineering
Электронный архив ТПУ (Digital Repository of Tomsk Polytechnic University)
Party organization
welfare
Digital repository of the publications of the Tomsk Polytechnic University, containing about 10,000 digital copies of Soviet-era academic and non-academic publications of the university, including the university party buro's official newspaper "Za Kadry".
Tomsk Polytechnic University
Tomsk
Siberia
Электронный архив РГППУ (Digital Archive of the Russian State Professional-Pedagogical University)
engineering
Digital archive of the Russian State Professional-Pedagogical University, containing digital copies of the university's publications from the 1960s till today, including academic books and periodicals, mostly about pedagogy.
Russian State Professional-Pedagogical University
Sverdlovsk
Электронный архив работ художника Соломона Телингатера (The electronic Archive of the Works of Artist Solomon Telingater)
Solomon Telingater
graphic design
Digital archive of works of Solomon Telingater, a famous Soviet graphic artist.
Vladimir Telingater (published by Togda)
Электронный архив открытого доступа НИУ "БелГУ" (Open-Access Repository of the Belgorod National Research University)
Digital archive of the Belgorod State University, containing digitized publications of scholars from the university, including monographs, textbooks, articles, dissertations, etc.
Belgorod National Research University
Belgorod
Электронный архив Новосибирской области (Electronic Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast)
Novosibirsk
Electronic archive of Novosibirsk Oblast archive. It contains photographs of aspects of economic and social life in Novosibirsk and a number of maps of the region, as well as a few other documents on the Soviet period.
Electronic Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast
Novosibirsk Oblast
Электронный архив национальной периодики - Национальная библиотека Узбекистана (Digital Archive of National Periodicals - National Library of Uzbekistan)
local administration
Digital archive of periodicals of Uzbekistan from the Soviet times till today. Though most digital copies in this archive are contemporary issues, users still can find quite a few digitized Soviet publications, such as Pravda Vostoka, Zvezda Vostoka, Vechernii Tashkent, etc.
National Library of Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Tashkent
Электронный архив научно-информационного центра "Фонд Иофе" (Санкт-Петербург) (Electronic Archive of the Scientific-informational Center "Iofe Fond" (Saint Petersburg))
Gulag
opposition
human rights
civil society
deportation
NKVD
feminist movement
Digital archive of the Iofe Fond, containing archival documents, memoirs, biographic data, and other types of materials related to Soviet political repression and civil activism.
Fond Iofe
Электронный архив Государственного архива Западно-Казахстанской области (Digital Archive of the State Archive of West Kazakhstan Oblast)
Kazakh Famine
Digital archive of the State Archive of Western-Kazakhstan Oblast. It consists of several sections, including a section on the archive's digital publications, a section on digitized historical periodicals, a section on digital exhibitions of archival documents, and a digital reading room for reading online finding aids of the archive.
State Archive of West Kazakhstan Oblast
Uralsk
Электронный архив В. И. Вернадского (Electronic Archive of V. I. Vernadskii)
scholarship
bibliography
mineralogy
geochemistry
Vladimir Vernadsky
Digitized scientific works, diaries, and personal correspondence of Vladimir Vernadskii, a Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, as well as literature on him.
Vladimir Vernadsky Digital Archive
Электронные тексты и коллекции. Свердловская областная библиотека им. В. Г. Белинского (Digital Texts and Collections of Sverdlovsk Oblast Belinsky Library)
public health
poetry
Digital collection of Sverdlovsk Oblast Belinsky Library, containing digital copies of many Soviet books in various categories.
Sverdlovsk Oblast Belinsky Library
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Электронные ресурсы центрального архива Министерства обороны РФ (Digital Resources of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of Russia)
Tehran Conference
Online exhibitions, databases, and listings of documents of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of Russia. The resources are mostly dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.
Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of Russia
Moldova