Soveton Iryston

(Soviet Ossetia), Ossetic-language oblast newspaper of the Iuzhnaia Osetiia AO, Georgian SSR. Founded in 1924, it was first called Khurzarin (The Dawn) and then Kommunist. It acquired its present name in 1957. Soveton Iryston is published five times a week in Tskhinvali. Circulation, 13,000 (1975). The newspaper was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor in 1973.