Resources

At Harvard and online, HURI maintains books, documents, and tools to help scholars research and understand Ukraine.

Library

Harvard University Library contains the largest collection of Ukrainian materials outside Eastern Europe, including a number of rare books.

Library Collection

The collection includes serials, monograph titles supporting courses in Ukrainian studies, reference aids such as encyclopedias and dictionaries, and specialized bibliographies of monographs and serials

Special Collections

Manuscript and archival collections include personal documents, correspondence, telegrams, minutes, financial and administrative records, publications, press clippings, and photographs.

Browse Special Collections

Look through a searchable list of special collections with descriptions of the contents and links to library records

MAPA

The MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine program, undertaken by the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University and its partners, brings the latest innovations of information technology to studies of modern Ukrainian history and contemporary political geography.

Contemporary Atlas

The "Revolution of Dignity" web map contains survey and demographic data on identity, historical memory, religious practice, and language.

Historical Atlas

The Historical Atlas includes projects on the Holodomor, Rus' genealogy, and historic Podillya.

Other Resources

Summer School Library Guide

Created to give students of the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute a grounding in library research at Harvard, this guide may be useful for anyone new to researching Ukraine-related topics at Harvard.

Russia's War on Ukraine

The collection seeks to document Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 which resulted in a full-scale war after eight years of military conflict between Russian and Ukraine. Content includes new portals, organizational websites, and social media related to the war.

Ukraïnica

The Primary Database of Ukrainian Studies is a platform that connects a growing database of Ukrainian literary works, historical documents, and films in high-quality English translation with a syllabus-building tool.

Fontes: Open Access Sources for Ukrainian History

Fontes is a database of online, open-access resources for original research on the history of Ukraine.

Ukraine Conflict

This collection seeks to document conflict in Ukraine (2014). Contributions to this collection were made by the Archive-It team and subject matter experts from Stanford University, Library of Congress, Global Investigative News Network, and Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

Teaching Resources

Built to assist with remote coursework during the COVID-19 pandemic, this list of online resources may be useful to those studying and teaching Ukraine.