Extract from the original Russian-language scan of Order No. 370, which approved the Federal Educational Programme for basic general education (grades 5 to 9). The full act on the official legal information portal runs to 5,683 pages because it contains the work programme for every school subject. This extract reproduces the first page of the order, for provenance, followed by section 166 in full: printed pages 5631 to 5661, on which the federal work programme of upbringing ("programma vospitaniia") begins and ends. Readers who need other sections should consult the full act under the eoNumber given above. The text has since been amended, including by Order No. 808 of 10 November 2025 (DOC-161), which added the compulsory course "Spiritual and Moral Culture of Russia".
Section 166 is the template every Russian school, including every school in the occupied territories, must follow when it writes its own upbringing programme. It fixes the aim of upbringing as the formation in pupils of "a feeling of patriotism, civic consciousness, respect for the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland and the feats of the Heroes of the Fatherland, for law and public order, for the working person and the older generation" (para. 166.2.3.1), and states that the priority task of the Russian Federation in the upbringing of children is a person "sharing Russian traditional spiritual values ... ready for peaceful creation and the defence of the Motherland" (para. 166.2.2). The content of upbringing is defined by the "Russian basic (civic, national) norms and values" of the Constitution, with the "spiritual and moral values of the culture and traditional religions of the peoples of Russia" as the variable component (para. 166.2.1). The organisational modules list, among the extracurricular activities a school provides, "courses and classes of a patriotic, civic-patriotic, military-patriotic, local-history and historical-cultural orientation" (para. 166.3.2.5), and require the school environment to display state symbols and portraits of "military personnel, heroes and defenders of the Fatherland" (para. 166.3.2.9). The programme also names the "adviser to the director on upbringing", the post that Mariupol's 2026 budget amendment funds, as a participant in the annual self-analysis of upbringing work (para. 166.4.7). This is the instrument that carried the values of Decree No. 809 into the school timetable two years before Order No. 808 turned them into a compulsory subject, and it is cited in TOT Insights research on the militarisation of education and on the institutional pathway of children under occupation.
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166.1 Explanatory note
The federal work programme of upbringing is the basis on which each school drafts its own upbringing programme within its basic educational programme. It is built on the unity and continuity of upbringing across all levels of general education and is planned with the participation of pupils' and parents' councils.
166.2 Target section
166.2.1. The content of upbringing is determined by the "Russian basic (civic, national) norms and values" enshrined in the Constitution; the variable component comprises the "spiritual and moral values of the culture and traditional religions of the peoples of Russia".
166.2.2. Upbringing is planned "in accordance with the priorities of state policy in the sphere of upbringing". The priority task of the Russian Federation is "the development of a highly moral personality sharing Russian traditional spiritual values, possessing current knowledge and skills, able to realise its potential in contemporary society, ready for peaceful creation and the defence of the Motherland".
166.2.3.1. Aims: the development of the personality on the basis of "the socio-cultural, spiritual and moral values and the rules and norms of behaviour accepted in Russian society, in the interests of the person, the family, society and the state"; and "the formation in pupils of a feeling of patriotism, civic consciousness, respect for the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland and the feats of the Heroes of the Fatherland, for law and public order, for the working person and the older generation, mutual respect, and a careful attitude to the cultural heritage and traditions of the multi-national people of the Russian Federation, to nature and the environment".
166.2.4 and 166.2.5. Directions of upbringing (civic, patriotic, spiritual and moral, aesthetic, physical, labour, ecological, scientific) and target guidelines for results, including a pupil who knows and respects "the military feats and labour achievements, the heroes and defenders of the Fatherland in the past and the present" and "takes part in events of a patriotic orientation".
166.3 Content section: the modules
166.3.2.4 Lessons. Maximum use of the upbringing potential of subject content; use of state symbols and "Russian basic values" in lessons.
166.3.2.5 Extracurricular activity. Lists, first among the courses a school offers, "courses and classes of a patriotic, civic-patriotic, military-patriotic, local-history and historical-cultural orientation", followed by courses on the religious cultures and "spiritual and moral culture of the peoples of Russia".
166.3.2.6 to 166.3.2.8. Class supervision, main school events (all-Russian campaigns, ceremonies and memorial dates) and out-of-school events.
166.3.2.9 Subject and spatial environment. Display of the state symbols of the Russian Federation, of its constituent entities and of the municipality; portraits of "outstanding statesmen of Russia, figures of culture, science, industry, art, military personnel, heroes and defenders of the Fatherland"; commemorative installations and stands on values, traditions and "current questions of prevention and security".
166.3.2.10 to 166.3.2.14. Work with parents, pupil self-government, prevention and security (including "anti-terrorist and anti-extremist security" and work with "risk groups"), social partnership and career guidance.
166.4 Organisational section
Staffing, normative and methodological provision, work with pupils with special needs, the system of rewards (portfolios, ratings, charitable support) and annual self-analysis of upbringing work, carried out by class supervisors with the deputy director for upbringing work and the "adviser to the director on upbringing" (166.4.7).
Analytical note
Section 166 shows the sequence by which state ideology enters the classroom. Decree No. 809 of 2022 fixed the "traditional values"; this programme, in force from the 2023/24 school year, wrote them into the aims, modules and physical environment of every school; Order No. 808 of 2025 then made them a compulsory subject. In the occupied territories the programme is applied in schools already stripped of Ukrainian language and history, and its "adviser to the director on upbringing" is a post the Mariupol occupation administration has funded from its reallocated 2026 budget.