Keywords: ethnographic data, holy place, Digor gorge, sacral attributes

Three ethnographic texts by the pre-Revolutionary researches on the one hand render an apprehension on the state of the holy place of Digori izædi lægæt at that time, and on the other hand give an idea on the state of ethnography in its part on Ossetia. The given descriptions of the holy place are the texts, which differ in their size and information exhaustiveness; the various features of the locality and the contemplated object / the holy place are reflected in these texts.