This edition covers the first three volumes of the monumental work of the great Russian philologist Φ. F. Zelinsky “History of Ancient Religions”, in which he completed his brilliant creative career. If the first two volumes were known to the Russian reader from publications at the beginning of the 20th century and reprints in the post-Soviet period, then the third volume was translated for the first time from the Polish language, in which all other volumes created by the scientist in the 20-40s of the 20th century were written. Poland and Germany. For a wide range of readers interested in the history of religions.