Moscow edition’s text, as appears from its name, was prepared and edited in Moscow in the 1960s and early 70s by a number of distinguished scholars (Y. E. Bertels, I. S. Braginskiy, B. G. Gafurov, A. Nushin, A. Y.  Bertels, M.-N. O. Osmanov, etc.) at the Academy of Sciences of USSR. 

It is based on the 1275 AD manuscript of the entire Shahname (called the London Ms), which is kept in the British Library, London. It is interesting to note that even though at that time (before the discovery of the Florence Ms) it was mistakenly considered the oldest Ms of the Shahname in existence, it continues to be the oldest complete Ms of the Shahname.