Textbooks on spiritual and moral culture included in the federal list

Unified state textbooks on the subject "Spiritual and moral culture of Russia" for the fifth and seventh grades are included in the federal list of textbooks. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Education. The relevant order No. 649 was issued on September 21, 2026.

Textbooks for the fifth grade will go to schools before the end of 2026, and students will begin to study a new subject from January 2027. Benefits for the sixth and seventh grades will be delivered by September 1, 2027, Minister of Education Sergey Kravtsov said.

According to him, the content of the course is built around 17 values enshrined in presidential decree No. 809 of November 9, 2022. “The content of the course ... reveals them consistently – from small actions to conscious social responsibility – through examples of heroes,” he said.

Each hero will be dedicated to a separate video, a link to which will be placed in the corresponding paragraph of the textbook. For teachers of a new subject, the Ministry of Education organized work on the implementation of advanced training programs.

Kravtsov also said that the department continues to prepare unified state textbooks on other disciplines. According to him, such manuals will be prepared in all subjects of the school curriculum.

The introduction of the “Spiritual and Moral Culture of Russia” for pupils of the fifth and seventh grades of the Ministry of Education reported in August 2025. According to the order of the department, the study of the subject is aimed at forming a worldview based on traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.

In April 2026, the Deputy head of the Ministry of Education Olga Kolodarova specified the timing of the introduction of the course: fifth-graders will begin to study it after the January holidays of 2027. For them, there are 17 hours of classes - one lesson per week.