About

Since the outbreak of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, various initiatives have emerged within and beyond the country to document the war.

These projects come from different backgrounds and reflect a wide range of motivations: preserving endangered heritage, documenting war developments, investigating war crimes and atrocities, tracking destruction and recovery needs, or capturing a multiplicity of everyday practices and war experiences across the country.

The scale of these efforts, by the very fact of their existence, has formed a professional field of documenting war in the conditions of experiencing it. The multiplicity and dispersion of such projects creates a need for common platforms. 

The catalogue of documenting and archiving initiatives is an attempt to collect information about such initiatives and make them available in a structured way. It will help one quickly find projects that contain materials about a specific region or topic in the context of war and contact the authors of the projects. 

 

How do I get contacts for projects?

Some projects’ contacts are hidden at the authors’ request. If you are interested in the hidden data, please send a request to [email protected]. In your letter, please indicate the project name and tell us more about the purpose of your request. We will inform the recipients and get in touch with you. If the project authors have agreed to publish their contacts, this information is posted directly on each project’s card.

The idea to create the catalogue started with the symposium of documentary initiatives The Most Documented War.

The project is jointly implemented by the Center for Urban History, Documenting Ukraine, Index, and the War Archive.