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Creator: OUN

Language: Ukrainian

This is a website run by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) based in London. Digitized sources relate both to the OUN and nationalism, and to other topics in 20th century Ukrainian history. Includes oral history interviews of nationalist figures as well as other prominent Ukrainian figures, including video components.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema of Ukraine

Language: Ukrainian

This is a project of the Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema of Ukraine to digitize 12,000 museum objects and create a website with open access to a collection of memorabilia related to the renowned 20th century director Les Kurbas. The digitized items include photographs, manuscripts, documents, posters, set models, costume sketches, set designs, materials from the archives of the Young Theater,…

Creator: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Language: Ukrainian

The Mykhailo Maksymovych scientific library at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv has scanned and digitized over 3000 old and rare books ranging from the 15th through the late 19th centuries. Books come from all over Europe and include many culturally significant books from Ukraine. Users can use "advanced search" to search by author, title, period, or publisher, or click "browse…

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Одеська національна наукова бібліотека

Language: Ukrainian

A database of engravings depicting Ukraine or by Ukrainian artists from the 16th through the 19th centuries. Browse engravings by century or depicted country. The collection is especially rich in depictions of 19th century Odesa.

Tags: 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Героика

Language: Ukrainian

The "names of independent Ukraine" database provides information on Ukrainian soldiers who were active in the country's independence struggles from 1917-1924, including military registers, biographical information, and related photos, monuments, and documents. The project includes several oral histories, and some soldiers' entries include more thorough information. The database estimates that it…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Національна бібліотека України імені В. І. Вернадського

Language: Ukrainian

An ongoing online project that aims to compile and make accessible the complete works of famed Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky. The digital collection includes works written, edited, and collaborated on by Hrushevsky; studies of Hrushevksy; his personal documents and correspondence as well as those of people close to him; archival, state, legal, and financial documents related to…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Language: English

The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute's historical and contemporary atlas projects provide data, statistics, maps, photographs, and analysis on a wide range of topics throughout Ukrainian history, as well as on contemporary politics and society. MAPA brings the latest innovations in information technology to Ukrainian studies in this approach to the country's past and present. The breadth of…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine| Early Modern| Kyivan Rus'| Middle Ages

Creator: Український інститут національної пам'яті

Language: Ukrainian

Since 2011, the "Rehabilitated by History" book series has published collections of archival documents, biographical and memoir essays, and studies pertaining to NKVD/KGB activity, political persecution, and collectivization in Soviet Ukraine. Focus on the victims of repression and their personal stories is especially rich in this project. Several "Rehabilitated by History" books have been…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Український культурний фонд

Language: Ukrainian

This project collects and digitizes literary art magazines produced in Kharkiv between the 1910s and 1930s, valuable artifacts that are otherwise scattered throughout libraries in Ukraine and often in poor condition. These valuable artifacts are works dedicated to art and theater amid the background of early 20th century revolution, and constitute works of art themselves. The project ultimately…

Tags: 20th century| Kharkiv

Creator: Бібліотека українського мистецтва

Language: Ukrainian

A go-to website for finding Ukrainian art and artists. Browse hundreds of digital scans of paintings, photographs, postcards, exhibition catalogues, rare books, and other sources from throughout Ukrainian history. Users can search by artist or keyword, or explore categories organized by art movement, medium, chronological period, and more. The section "eksklyusiv" (exclusive) found on the top menu…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Odesa I. Mechnikov University

Language: Ukrainian

A collection of foreign and Ukrainian early modern texts, rare editions of 19th and 20th century books, and periodicals. This source is especially rich in local lore and literature on Odesa and the Northern Black Sea Coast, and local newspapers dating back to the 18th century.

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| Odesa

Creator: Archival Information Systems

Language: Ukrainian

Archive of Ukrainian periodicals dating back to 1896. Sources are most numerous for 1917-1945. You can search for items and filter by date, location, or publication title, or browse aggregated collections by clicking "Колекції" (collections) on the homepage.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Верховна рада України

Language: Ukrainian

A major, searchable database of legislation passed in Ukraine dating back to 1903, although sources are most numerous for the period since 1991 and especially the 21st century. Users can use advanced search functions to search hundreds thousands of legal documents and can also browse by committee, most popular documents, and other categories.

Tags: 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine

Creator: Vasyl Lopukh

Language: Ukrainian

The archive of photographs of the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, a Ukrainian unit within the Austro-Hungarian Army during the World War I includes over 3000 photos. The original photo negatives on glass are preserved at the Ukrainian Museum and Library (Stamford, Connecticut).

Creator: Litopys

Language: Ukrainian

Books and other documents from Ukraine dating from the 800s through the 1700s. Sources include ancient chronicles and annals, classic literary works and poetry, historical and political works, and fiction. Users can browse different subcollections on the home page or use the search function.

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| All Ukraine| ancient Ukraine| Kyivan Rus'| Middle Ages

Creator: Національна академія наук України

Language: Ukrainian

Open access PDF copies of several archaeological academic journals from the early Soviet period through the present.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Language: Ukrainian

This site compiles hundreds of archival documents the State Archives of Kharkiv oblast and the State Security archive of Kyiv pertaining to the Holodomor famine of the 1930s as experienced across Ukraine and in Kharkiv oblast' in particular. It includes additional records from Kharkiv libraries and other institutions, providing a lens into Holodomor in one province. Users can also find published…

Tags: 20th century| Kharkiv

Creator: Музей Голодомору

Language: Ukrainian

The selection of digitized legal documents, photos and videos pertaining to forced industrialization and Holodomor. In addition, there is a collection of correspondence by Jerry Berman, an engineer from South Africa who witnessed Holodomor during his work in the Soviet Union in 1932-1935.

Creator: Музей Голодомору

Language: Ukrainian

Video, audio, and written transcripts of oral histories on Holodomor and other Ukrainian famines of the 1920s-1940s. This compilation of oral histories pairs with the Holodomor Museum's burial map, a digital project where users can track the events of the Holodomor famine and other Soviet famines in Ukraine (those of 1921-1923 and 1946-7) by location. On the "Свідчення" (testimonies) page of the…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Меморіальний центр Голокосту "Бабин Яр"

Language: Ukrainian

A multimedia project on Babyn Yar and the history of the Holocaust, WWII, and the Soviet period in Ukraine by the Holocaust Memorial Center of Babyn Yar in Kyiv. The entire website is worth exploring, but two main areas will be of use to researchers. For a large digital library collection featuring many different kinds of sources, go to "library" (бібліотека) and then "explore library" (дослідити…

Tags: 20th century| Chernihiv| Chernivtsi| Dnipro| Kharkiv| Kherson| Kropivinsky| Kyiv| Lviv| Mikolaiv| Odesa| Poltava| Zaporizhzhia