The founder of the journal is the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "North Ossetian State University named after K.L. Khetagurov". The scientific journal was founded in 1999. The publication is registered with the International Standard Serial Numbering Center – ISSN 1994-7720 and is published 4 times a year. The journal's permanent sections are: Historical Sciences. Pedagogical Sciences. Economic Sciences.

The journal is included in the List of peer-reviewed scientific publications, in which the main scientific results of dissertations for the degree of candidate of sciences, for the degree of doctor of sciences must be published.