The coat of arms of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, a federal subject of Russia, is a red disc featuring a Caucasian leopard with seven white mountains in the background.

Under the Russian Empire, the territory of present-day North Ossetia was a part of the Terek Oblast.

In 1978 both the arms of the North Ossetian ASSR and the emblem of the RSFSR were modified to include a red star.

On 24 November 1994 the Parliament of North Ossetia, an autonomous republic within Russian Federation, approved and enacted Act No.

The prototype for the emblem was based on Vakhushti of Kartli’s “Banner of Ossetia”, dated 1735.