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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Russian History</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Russian History</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: История России</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2312-8674</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2312-8690</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">50879</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-8674-2026-25-2-342-355</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">MRCQJY</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>HISTORY OF RUSSIAN CULTURE</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>СОЦИОКУЛЬТУРНАЯ ИСТОРИЯ НАРОДОВ РОССИИ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Muslim Parishes in the Astrakhan Governorate during 18<sup>th</sup> - Early 19<sup>th</sup> Century</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Мусульманские приходы Астраханской губернии в XVIII - начале XIX века</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3602-5213</contrib-id><contrib-id contrib-id-type="spin">9724-8989</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Imasheva</surname><given-names>Marina M.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Имашева</surname><given-names>Марина Маратовна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Dr. Habil. Hist., Associate Professor, Leading Researcher of the Department of History of the Volga and Ural Regions</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доктор исторических наук, доцент, ведущий научный сотрудник Отдела истории Поволжья и Приуралья</p></bio><email>imaschewa@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Sh. Marjani Institute of History of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Институт истории АН РТ имени Ш. Марджани</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2026-06-30" publication-format="electronic"><day>30</day><month>06</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>25</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">FAR EASTERN CROSS-BORDER OF RUSSIA</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ДАЛЬНЕВОСТОЧНОЕ ТРАНСГРАНИЧЬЕ РОССИИ</issue-title><fpage>342</fpage><lpage>355</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2026-06-29"><day>29</day><month>06</month><year>2026</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2026, Imasheva M.M.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2026, Имашева М.М.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Imasheva M.M.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Имашева М.М.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/russian-history/article/view/50879">https://journals.rudn.ru/russian-history/article/view/50879</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The author devotes their work to one of the key moments in the history of Islam in the Lower Volga Region - the analysis of the state of the Muslim structure and the inclusion of the local Turkic-Muslim population in the Orenburg Muslim Spiritual Assembly during the 18th - early 19th century. The article provides an overview of the history of the ethnic groups of the Muslim population in the region, as well as the development of the Muslim religious infrastructure in the center of Orenberg and villages of the Astrakhan governorate. The author also highlights the role of the local administration and the first Russian Mufti, Mukhamedzhan Khusainov, in the process of including the Muslims of the region in the Orenburg Muslim Spiritual Assembly. For the first time, the author introduces into scientific use the information about the time of the construction of mosques in Astrakhan and the villages of the Yurt Tatars, the number of Muslims, the Astrakhan parishes, and the Muslim clergy in them in the mid-18th - early 19th centuries, as well as the time and circumstances that led to the inclusion of the Muslims of the Lower Volga Region in the structure of the Orenburg Muslim Spiritual Assembly. The author concludes that during the 18th century, in the Astrakhan Governorate, one of the regions of the Russian Empire with a considerable Muslim population, there was a process of institutionalization of the religious infrastructure and its gradual integration into the state system. As a result of the joint efforts of the executive authorities and Mufti Mukhamedzhan Khusainov, in the early 19th century, the Muslim population of the Astrakhan Governorate was included in the area of the Orenburg Muslim Spiritual Assembly.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Исследование посвящено одному из ключевых моментов истории ислама в Нижем Поволжье - анализу состояния мусульманской структуры и включению местного тюрко-мусульманского населения в округ Оренбургского магометанского духовного собрания в XVIII - начале XIX в. Представлен обзор истории этнических групп мусульманского населения региона, складывания конфессиональной мусульманской инфраструктуры в губернском центре и селах Астраханской губернии. Показана роль местной администрации и первого российского муфтия Мухамеджана Хусаинова в процессе включения мусульман региона в структуру Оренбургского магометанского духовного собрания. Впервые вводится в научный оборот сведения о времени строительства мечетей в Астрахани и селах юртовских татар, количестве мусульман, астраханских приходов, мусульманского духовенства при них в середине XVIII - начале XIX в., а также времени и обстоятельствах, приведших к включению мусульман Нижнего Поволжья в структуру Оренбургского магометанского духовного собрания. Автор приходит к выводу, что в течении XVIII в. в Астраханской губернии, в одном из регионов Российской империи со значительным мусульманским населением, происходил процесс институализации конфессиональной инфраструктуры и постепенного ее включения в государственную систему. В результате совместных усилий исполнительной власти и муфтия Мухамеджана Хусаинова в начале XIX в. мусульманское население Астраханской губернии было включено в округ Оренбургского магометанского духовного собрания.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Orenburg Muslim Spiritual Assembly</kwd><kwd>Muslims</kwd><kwd>Mufti</kwd><kwd>Muslim clergy</kwd><kwd>mosque</kwd><kwd>parish</kwd><kwd>appointed mullahs</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Оренбургское магометанское духовное собрание</kwd><kwd>мусульмане</kwd><kwd>муфтий</kwd><kwd>мусульманское духовенство</kwd><kwd>мечеть</kwd><kwd>приход</kwd><kwd>указные муллы</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><award-group><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution xml:lang="ru">Работа выполнена за счет предоставленного в 2025 году Академией наук Республики Татарстан гранта на осуществление фундаментальных и прикладных научных работ в научных и образовательных организациях, предприятиях и организациях реального сектора экономики Республики Татарстан от 25.12.2025 №29/2025-ФИП.</institution></institution-wrap><institution-wrap><institution xml:lang="en">The research was carried out at the expense of a grant provided in 2025 by the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences for the implementation of fundamental and applied scientific work in scientific and educational organizations, enterprises and organizations of the real sector of the economy of the Republic of Tatarstan (25.12.2025 №29/2025-FIP).</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source></award-group></funding-group></article-meta><fn-group/></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Azamatov, D.D. “O pervoi popytke reformirovaniia Orenburgskogo magometanskogo dukhovnogo Sobraniia [On the first attempt to reform the Orenburg Mohammedan Spiritual Assembly].” In Religiia v sovremennom mire, 152–164. 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