Publication of the Altai Exploration Society. "Digest" was released in the indefinite period, from 1894 to 1930 in Barnaul (in 1894 in Tomsk). 12 volumes were published in all. There was a break in the publication: the 11th volume was published in 1912, the 12th - in 1930, volume 13 was not edited. At different times it was published by the Altai Research Society, the Altai Department of the West Siberian Branch of the Russian Geographical Society, the Altai Geographical Society, and the Barnaul Natural History Museum. Resumed in 1991 with the same title, the numbering of volumes continues. Responsible (chief) editors: V. A. Skubnevsky (issue 15, 16, 18-21); A. V. Startsev, A. B. Shamshin (issue 17); N. G. Tkachenko (issue 19). Publishers: Altai Regional Local Lore Association, Altai Regional Local Lore Museum, etc. Digest publishes documents and materials about the history of Altai from ancient times to the present. The material is systematized into sections: Pages of History; From the History of Settlements; Historical Demography; Historical Archive; Names; Local History and Archeology; Criticism and Bibliography; and others. Some issues are thematic: issue 17 is devoted to the 170th anniversary of the Altai Regional Local Lore Museum, issue 19 is marking the 110th anniversary of the Vyacheslav Shishkov Altai Regional Universal Scientific Library. The table of contents of Volumes 1-4 of the "Altai Digest" is placed in Volume 4, issue 2 (4th p., title.).
Presented issues: 1894, 1903, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1912, 1930.