The journal is the successor of the scientific yearbook of the same name, which was published at the Marjani Institute of History of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences from 2011 to 2015. Since 2016, it has been a scientific journal. In 2016–2017, it was published once a year; from 2018 to 2020, it was published twice a year. In 2021, one issue of the journal was published. Since 2022, the frequency of publication of the journal is 4 issues per year: March, June, September, December. In 2021, Doctor of Historical Sciences R.R. Iskhakov became the new chief editor due to the transfer of Doctor of Historical Sciences I.K. Zagidullin to another job.