The article reveals the importance of the political and missionary role of clergymen during the Special Military Operation. The conditions for the effectiveness of their work in the Russian Armed Forces are substantiated: reference to the country's historical experience, understanding the prospects for interaction between various confessions and the Russian security agencies. The authors describe a philosophically grounded program for training specialists with an in-depth knowledge of Islamic culture and history for work in the Russian Armed Forces. It consists of a number of actions: the appointment of imams; the creation and operation of the Coordinating Interfaith Council under the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Chief of the Main Military and Political Directorate of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation; the holding of federal-level military clergy training sessions; and the organization and holding of seminars and round tables at the regional and federal levels. The article describes the experience of the Republic of Bashkortostan in the field of working with military personnel within the framework of the functioning of the Russian Islamic University of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia (Ufa).
Minigaliev et al. (Mon,) studied this question.