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Selected Resources on Russian History

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Online Resources on Russian History

Memory of Repressions

At http://www.memsearch.org/en/, a search engine has been launched to facilitate the search for information about Soviet repressions.  The search engine offers the choice of transliteration from Latin to Cyrillic when queries are entered using English descriptions.  In the current version of the search engine, databases and projects of three organizations are involved:

International Memorial (Moscow), www.memo.ru

base.memo.ru – Database of the victims of political repression with over three million entries

stalin.memo.ru – List of those executed by Stalin

topos.memo.ru – Это прямо здесь (It is right here) – Database of places in Moscow linked to repression

http://old.memo.ru/history/nkvd/gulag/maps/ussri.htm – Overview of individual administrations of correctional labour camps in the USSR

 

Memorial St. Petersburg (Fond Ioffe), http://iofe.center/

mapofmemory.org – Necropolis of terror and the Gulag

sand.mapofmemory.org – Database of the memorial graveyard in Sandarmokh

lev.mapofmemory.org – Database of the memorial graveyard in Levashovskaya pustosh

 

Gulag.cz (Czech Republic), www.gulag.cz

Gulag.online – Virtual museum of the Gulag, project containing selected information on persecuted Czechoslovaks, Poles and Hungarians and places connected to Soviet acts of repression