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Local Sources

Moscow

  • Moscow sources at the Presidential Library
City of Moscow
Moscow Oblast
(images, Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
Discusses contention between Moscow prince and Mongols that led to independence of the Moscow principality.
(September, 1480; Russian translation)
Book contains political, economic, and administrative documents of Moscow Kingdom. Divided into three volumes.
Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3
(1571-1664; in Russian)
Document contains addressing to the Sweden King to exchange ambassadors and make peace otherwise Moscow will continue war.
(1572; Russian translation)
Document contains addressing to the Sweden King discussing war and peace conditions
(1573; modern Russian translation)
Document contains story about Ivan the Terrible written by Prince Kurbskiy.
(1573; commentaries, modern Russian translation)
Site contains documents of the relations between Polish and Moscow in the Time of Troubles.
(Beginning 17th century; commentaries, modern Russian translation)
Document contains conditions how to help Moscow Kingdom to overcome the Times of Trouble.
(1606; commentaries, Russian translation)
Document contains conditions how Moscow Kingdom can be rescued from enemy.
(1611; commentaries, Russian translation)
(1648; Modern Russian transcription)
Lists victims of state terror killed in Moscow during the Soviet Union (USSR).
Data arranged by place of residence person was taken from and killed (viewable on [http://memoryfull.ru/purge/repressions.html this map), rather than place of burial.
Database includes about 12,000 people, which Memorial estimates is only one third of the total number of people shot in Moscow on political charges.
This data is incomplete as there is no information about several thousand Muscovites shot and subsequently rehabilitated. Streets and addresses have also changed, especially after 1960 which has also contributed to this incompleteness.
From Memorial society, an NGO and nonprofit.
(1917-1991; Russian interface)
Footage and news reports on the hostile crisis
Compiled by [1]
(2002; video; Russian)

Novgorod

Documents and images relating to Novgorod Oblast.
(images, Russian facsimiles)
Document consists of conditions of Novgorod and German amabassadors .
(the end of 12 centuries; Old Russian transcription).
Document contains offer to join to Catholic church and praising the idea to build Catholic Cathedral in Novgorod.
(November 15, 1248; images, Latin transcription, Russian translation).
Site contains agreements between Novgorod and Moscow Prince and Polish King.
(1470-1471; Old Russian language in Cyrillic script)
Records regarding filing petitions.
(17 March - 6 July 1650; Russian transcriptions)
List of victims of political repression in Soviet Union (USSR) Novgorod region.
Database includes name, birth date and place, occupation, sentence date and length, death date, and burial place.
From a database with wider regional scope for Northwest Russia, Center for Returned Names: List of Soviet Union (USSR) political repression victims in Leningrad/St. Petersburg region.
(1917-1991; Russian interface)
Searchable database of laws and agreements of Novgorod Oblast government.
(30 July 2010 - Present; Russian documents)

St. Petersburg

Site contains orders of Peter I about construction of the city, pictures, and maps.
(Beginning 18th century; maps, images, facsimiles in Russian)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
Ability to search text of modern Russian translation.
(28 January 1724; Old Russian facsimile, Modern Russian translation)
Online version of the magnificent museum situated in the heart of St. Petersburg.
Includes virtual tours of different parts of the museum.
(1900; photos, Russian interface)
1904 American Article - Bay View Magazine
From the ALEXANDER PALACE TIME MACHINE
(1904; English transcription and photos)
Search the database of names.
Browse the database of names.
Includes names of Leningrad Siege victims.
Database includes name, birth date and place, occupation, sentence date and length, death date, and burial place.
(1917-1991; Russian interface)
Facsimiles of newspapers from the Kronstadt rebels, who fought against the new Bolshevik regime.
English translations of the newspapers available [2] here.
(7-17 March 1921; Russian facsimiles)
(1921-1971; Russian facsimiles, English translations)
Discusses oppression of the people from an American visitor's perspective.
(1985; English)

Regional Sources

Arkhangelsk

Presents maps and atlases from the Arkhangelsk region and from its province period.
From the Russian North Library.
(Russian facsimiles)
"The fourth Gospel dated after [the] Ostrom Gospel."
From the Russian State Library.
(1092; Old East Slavic facsimile)
Collection from the Russian North Library.
(19th-20th century; Russian facsimiles)
List of victims of political repression in Soviet Union (USSR) Arkhangelsk region.
Database includes name, birth date and place, occupation, sentence date and length, death date, and burial place.
From a database with wider regional scope for Northwest Russia, Center for Returned Names: List of Soviet Union (USSR) political repression victims in Leningrad/St. Petersburg region.
(1917-1991; Russian interface)

Caucasus

(Russian)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Russian Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Russian Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
By Xavier of Maistre. One of the most numerous and most formidable tribes is that of the Tchetchenges, who inhabit the Kabarda, provinces whose high valleys extend to the peaks of the Caucasus. Men are beautiful, brave, and intelligent, but thieving and cruel, and in a state of almost continual war with the troops.
(1825; French transcription)
Discusses battles in Caucasus.
(30 December 1856 - 26 August 1859; Modern Russian translation)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
(1918; Russian transcription)

Central Federal District

From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)

Chechnya

By Xavier of Maistre. One of the most numerous and most formidable tribes is that of the Tchetchenges, who inhabit the Kabarda, provinces whose high valleys extend to the peaks of the Caucasus. Men are beautiful, brave, and intelligent, but thieving and cruel, and in a state of almost continual war with the troops.
(1825; French transcription)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
General Troshev recounts the battles of the First Chechen War.
(September 1994 - August 1996; Russian transcription)
Firsthand accounts from various witnesses of the First Chechen War.
Includes recorded oral interviews.
Part of the Memory of Nations project.
(1994-1996; Russian audio, English translations)
Firsthand accounts from various witnesses of the Second Chechen War.
Includes recorded oral interviews.
Part of the Memory of Nations project.
(1999-2009; Russian audio, English translations)

Crimean Region

Document contains history of situation in Crimea among Tatars, Turks, and Russian people.
(1777; image, Russian translation from Hebrew).
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
Document contains administrative, legislative, and economic settings for those who came from Crimea to live in Azov area
(May 21, 1779; image, modern Russian language).
(end of 18th century; map, modern Russian language).
Documents an expedition in 1837 through southeastern Europe and the southern parts of the Russian Empire.
Information about the geography, history, archaeology, and peoples and cultures of the region.
(1837; facsimile French-language book)
VA Obolensky's of Crimea under Denikin's (and Bolshevik) rule.
(1918-1924; Russian transcription)
(English translation; 2014)

Dagestan

Collections of letters: I, II, III, and IV.
(15th-17th centuries; Russian transcriptions)
(10 July 2003; Russian transcription)
Decrees and orders from the president.
(13 March 2013-Present; Russian)

Far East

Collection from the Russian Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
Collection from the Russian Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
Collection from the Russian Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
Collection from the Russian Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
Collection from the Russian Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
Economic, political, and ethnographic information of Kamchatka.
(1806-1807; commentaries, transcription in Russian)
Ayyub Baghirov's account of life in Kolyma, a Stalinist prison camp near Magadan.
This first-hand account of prison camp life is titled "Off to the Unknown: Stalin's Notorious Prison Camps in Siberia" and also appeared in Azerbaijan International, Vol. 14:1 (Spring 2006), pp. 58–71.
(1937-1955; English transcription)

Ingushetia

Decrees, statements on amendments, and orders.
Search the site
(Russian transcriptions)
Court documents (18 May 2012-present)
Plans of Supreme Court for 2014 (2014)
(Russian transcriptions)
List political repression victims and soldiers killed from Ingushetia.
Database includes name, birth date and place, occupation, sentence date and length, death date, and burial place.
(1917-1991; Russian facsimile)
Decrees of Ingushetia president.
(28 April 2002 - 10 March 2003; Russian transcriptions)

Kaliningrad

From the Russian Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
List of victims of political repression in Soviet Union (USSR) Kaliningrad.
Database includes name, birth date and place, occupation, sentence date and length, death date, and burial place.
Memory book from Kaliningrad: Terra Baltica, 2007.
From a database with wider regional scope for Northwest Russia, Center for Returned Names: List of Soviet Union (USSR) political repression victims in Leningrad/St. Petersburg region.
(1917-1991; Russian interface)

Karelia

(16th-20th century; Russian transcriptions)
(1593-1696; Russian interface, Latin facsimiles)
Documents from Petrozavodsk's history from the 18th to 20th century.
(18th-20th centuries; Russian transcriptions)
Ozeretskovskogo's account of travelling in Karelia.
(1785; Russian transcription, English and Finnish translations)
Facsimiles of published historical accounts of the region.
No charge for registration, but registration is required to access the documents.
(1863-2014; Karelian and Russian facsimiles)
(1870-1917; Russian facsimile)
List of victims of political repression in Soviet Union (USSR) Karelia.
Database includes name, birth date and place, occupation, sentence date and length, death date, and burial place.
From a database with wider regional scope for Northwest Russia, Center for Returned Names: List of Soviet Union (USSR) political repression victims in Leningrad/St. Petersburg region.
(1937-1938; Russian interface)
Maps, official documents, a 1948 diary.
Focus on Russia-Finland relations during this period.
Also includes maps of Arkhangelsk.
(1918 - 6 April 2015; maps, Russian, English, and Finnish transcriptions)
Local bulletin including telegrams, local events, and reports of government action.
Ability to browse by year and day of publication.
(3 February 1938 - 12 December 1917; Old Russian facsimiles)
Primary accounts from citizens
Documents
(1935-1939; Russian facsimiles and transcriptions)
Records, documents, letters, and photos of Red Army soldiers involved in the Winter War.
(1939-1940; Russian facsimiles)
Lists of civilians killed in camps in East Karelia from 1941-1944.
Ability to search by last name, first name, nationality, gender, birthplace, birth date, death date, cause of death, and which camp.
(1941-1944; Finnish records)
First-hand accounts from young man held in Nazi concentration camp in Petrozadovsk, and died in Poland in 1945.
(1941-1945; Russian transcriptions and facsimiles)
The Korela fortress is located in Keksholm. This account details Russian defense efforts against Nazi army.
(23 June - 7 December 1941; Russian transcription)
Includes clips from WWII fighting on the Karelian front and videos from "Soviet Karelia."
(8 October 1944 - 28 September 2006; video, Russian interface)
Excerpts from a family's account of the island in Lake Lagoda.
(1947-1952; photos, Russian transcription)
Song was used for Karelia SSR before 1956.
Song by Karl Rautio, lyrics by Armas Äikiä.
(Before July 16, 1956; English translation)
(26 November 1990 - 15 December 2007; Russian transcriptions)
Song by Alexander Beloborodov, lyrics by Armas Mashin and Ivan Kostin.
(6 April 1993; audio, English translation)

Northwestern Federal District

From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)

Pskov

List of victims of political repression in Soviet Union (USSR) Pskov region.
Database includes name, birth date and place, occupation, sentence date and length, death date, and burial place.
From a database with wider regional scope for Northwest Russia, Center for Returned Names: List of Soviet Union (USSR) political repression victims in Leningrad/St. Petersburg region.
(1917-1991; Russian interface)

Rostov

(1962; Russian transcriptions)

Siberian Region

From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From regional collections of Russia's Presidential Library.
(Russian facsimiles)
From regional collections of Russia's Presidential Library.
(Russian facsimiles)
From regional collections of Russia's Presidential Library.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From regional collections of Russia's Presidential Library.
(Russian facsimiles)
From regional collections of Russia's Presidential Library.
(Russian facsimiles)
From regional collections of Russia's Presidential Library.
(Russian facsimiles)
From regional collections of Russia's Presidential Library.
(Russian facsimiles)
From regional collections of Russia's Presidential Library.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
Includes primary sources from Yenisei province.
Site includes selections from pre-Revolution Siberian newspapers.
Also includes primary and secondary sources as downloadable PDFs.
(modern Russian translations)
US Library of Congress site containing records from Russian exploration of Siberia and contrasting it with materials from US exploration of Alaska.
See especially Siberian Manuscripts.
(Russian and English interface, Russian facsimiles)
Document contains history of the social movements among the Nenets people.
(1830s to 1840s; commentaries, transcription in Russian)
The digital collection contains rare books, maps and manuscripts from the exploration of Siberia and the North Pole region from the Asch-collection of Goettingen State and University Library.
(Facsimiles)
Album of 32 original watercolors depicting scenes of everyday life and different historical themes in Tobol'sk Province.
(19th century; facsimile paintings)
Book offering an inside view of Tobol'sk, considered the founding city of Siberia.
Document contains geography of the land, history of the colonization of Altai and relations between natives and Russians.
(1885; commentaries, transcription in Russian)
Illustrated guide to the world's longest railroad, including a history of Siberia, information on the construction of the railroad, and a listing of towns and cities along the route.
(Late 19th - early 20th centuries; Book facsimile)
Account by Countess Sophie Buxhoeveden, a lady-in-waiting for the Romanov family. Includes account of their murder.
(1917-1919, published in 1928; English translation)
Memories of the former commander of Barnaul Siberian Rifle Regiment 3 Colonel Kambalina.
Account White struggle in Siberia, especially fighting in Barnaul-Biysk.
(August 1919 - March 1920; Russian transcription)
First-hand oral accounts of Stalin's NKVD-related repression in Tomsk.
Video collection of first-hand accounts found here.
Includes Soviet propaganda films.
Map collection of gulags located here.
(1934-1991; Russian audio)

Southern Federal District

From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)

Tambov

Includes secondary commentary in addition to first-hand accounts.
(April 1921; Russian transcriptions)
Includes documents from the Peasants' War.
(19 August 1920 - June 1921; Russian transcriptions)

Tatarstan

Reports regarding revolutionary activities of residents, including university students, of Kazan and Samara.
(4 December 1887- 1 September 1893; Russian transcriptions)
(23 March 1918; Russian transcription)
(10 May 1918; English translation)
Telegram in which Lenin discusses victory in capturing Kazan.
(29 September 1918; Russian transcription)
Includes facsimiles of boundary agreements and related maps, agreements transferring power from government in Kazan to Soviet government, and also documents from the first meeting of the Constituent Congress of Soviets of Tatarstan.
Significant for outlining defined boundaries of Tatarstan, the land of the Tatar people.
(27 May 1920 - 28 September 1920; photos, maps, and Russian facsimiles)
(27 May 1920 - 27 May 1980; Russian facsimiles)
(1 July 1921 - 27 May 1980; Russian facsimiles)
Tatarstan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
Calls for voter referendum on Tatarstan's status as a state.
(24 October 1991; Russian transcriptions)
(25 December 1993; Russian transcription)
Laws and declarations of the president.
Also available in Tatar.
(1 January 2003 - 21 July 2015; Russian and Tatar transcriptions)

Ural

From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)

Volga Region

Collection from Russian Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
Collection from Russian Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
From the Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
Collection from Russian Presidential Library Regional Collection.
(Russian facsimiles)
Site contains administrative, economic, and political documents of the region.
(1762-1941; transcription in Russian)
Includes census lists and other documents.
(1767-1857; English interface and translations)
Includes letters and newspapers relating to Astrakhan.
(1777-1960; Russian facsimiles)
Search the database by: date, topic, author, and text.
(Russian interface)
Downloadable .doc files with memoirs of Dmitri Safonov, who was born in 1909.
(20th century, starting with 1909; Russian transcriptions)
(24 December 1993; Russian transcription)
Resolutions adopted by the city Duma.
(23 November 2005 - May 27 2005; Russian transcriptions)
Summaries of events in Nizhny Novgorod by year.
(2011-2014; Russian transcriptions)

Cumulative Sources

Territorial Divisions

Document contains information about territorial division of Russian Empire
(1708; transcription in Russian language).

Family History Sources

Memoirs and links to genealogical information on White Guard members.
(1900-1991; Russian transcriptions)
Search and browse the Immortal Barracks here.
Includes facsimiles of photos, letters, and memories of victims of Soviet political oppression.
Ability to add stories to the collection.
(1917-1991; photos, Russian facsimiles and interface)
Organized by region of burial.
Includes name, birth date and place, number of children, occupation, arrest date, conviction date, death date, and rehabilitation date.
From Memorial society, an NGO and nonprofit.
(1917-1991; Russian interface)
Database of interviews with Jewish people from Russia.
Includes facsimiles of official documents.
Explore the database by family name, city.
Advanced search here.
(photos, English transcriptions, Russian facsimiles)

WWI

Documents include facsimiles of letters, military IDs, orders.
Ability to search the archive.
Also includes photos, stories about specific individuals.
(1914-1917; photos, Russian facsimiles)

Great Patriotic War (WWII)

Names and birth dates of soldiers in the Great War.
Ability to browse and search by Russian region and other participants in the war, excluding Japan.
Includes some biographies of soldiers.
(1941-1945; Russian interface)
Names of those killed in the Eastern Front.
Search by name, birth year, or military title.
(1941-1945; Russian records)
Includes photos of listed soldiers, monuments dedicated to the listed soldiers, and soldiers by city.
(1941-1945; photos, Russian records)
Documentation of Soviet POWs, mainly in Germany. Includes names, birth date, and some birth places.
(1941-1945; Russian and German interface and records)
Links to regional archives of fallen soldiers.
(1941-1945; Russian interface)
Letters and official documents.
(1941-1945; Russian facsimiles and transcriptions)
Includes forms, casualities lists, orders.
(1941-1945; Russian transcriptions)
The Korela fortress is located in Keksholm. This account details Russian defense efforts against Nazi army.
(23 June - 7 December 1941; Russian transcription)

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