The collection contains articles by domestic and Mongolian researchers covering various aspects of the ancient history of Central Asia and the Baikal region from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages. They introduce into scientific circulation materials of field studies of authors, as well as from foreign publications, inaccessible to domestic researchers, publish the results of an analysis of various material, pictorial and written sources on various aspects of the history of ancient societies of these regions of Asia in a wide chronological range from the ancient Stone Age to medieval times.