Russia’s unified school history textbook will be updated to include North Korean troops’ participation in fighting in the Kursk region, Mikhail Myagkov, scientific director of the Russian Military Historical Society, told RBC.
The previous edition was written and published “before it was known about the participation of North Koreans in repelling the aggression of the Ukrainian Nazis against the Kursk region,” Myagkov said. Work is now underway to “supplement the text.”
Myagkov also said the military history textbook for grades 10–11 would add information “in more specific and greater detail about the use of drones, new weapons, and new tactics currently being used in the zone of the SVO.” A smaller amount of that material will appear in the unified history textbook.
One of the authors of Russia’s unified history textbook is Vladimir Medinsky, a former culture minister, presidential aide, and head of the Russian Military Historical Society.
In January 2026, it was reported that the third edition of the textbook series for 10th–11th graders would include material on the “causes of the special military operation” and on a meeting between the presidents of Russia and the United States in Alaska in August 2025.
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