- Academy of Sciences Archive online catalog of collections
- ArcheoBiblioBase contact information and guides to Russian archives
- Archives of the Communist Party and Soviet State at the Hoover Institution
- "Archives of Russia Five Years After: 'Purveyors of Sensations' or 'Shadows Cast to the Past'?" by Patricia Grimsted
- Cold War International History Project at the Wilson Center
- Database of Professors of Moscow University (for 1755-1855) by John Windhausen (Saint Anselm College)
- Dissident Movement Archives at Memorial
- English Translations of primary documents about 20th century Russian history by Francis King
- Ershov Archive of primary documents on the history of Soviet computing and informatics
- "The Former Communist Party Archives in Eastern Europe and Russia: A Provisional Assessment" by Leo van Rossum
- Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System
- History of Moscow University (1755-1917) includes biographic information about the faculty, trustees, and students
- History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1724-1999)
- History of Russian Aviation, including chronology (1916-1946) in Russian and in English
- History of Russian Universities by A.I. Avrus
- History of the Top Organs of the Communist Party by S.A. Mesiats
- Introduction to Russian Archives by Olga Glagoleva (CREES, University of Toronto)
- Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit
- The National Security Archive at the George Washington University
- Numbered Factories and Other Establishments of the Soviet Defense Industry (1928-1967)
- People's Archive (Narodnyi arkhiv)
- Russian archives and libraries e-mail addresses
- Russian archives search
- Russian collection at the Hoover Institution Archives
- Russian History Sound Archive at the Kennan Institute and National Public Radio
- Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation and its Samara Branch
- Russian and Soviet newspapers collection (1912-1989)
- Sakharov Archives and Human Rights Center at Brandeis University
- Social History of Russian Science electronic library and archive
- Sources on Russian history at Moscow State University
- Soviet Archives (by Vladimir Bukovsky) at INFO-RUSS
- Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project at the University of Toronto
- Special Archive: an online guide and sample documents by MediaLingua and Classica
- Stalinka: a digital library of Staliniana
- Trans-Siberian Railway
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
- Yale Russian Archive Project
- 1922 Deportation of Intelligentsia: virtual exhibit at the Federal Archives and collection of documents at the Democracy Foundation
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