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Vaccination calendar for 2026 for adults and children: Izvestia publishes the full list
Vaccination protects against the disease and helps to avoid complications and severe course of the disease. But it is important to get vaccinated on time. About which vaccinations should be given to children and adults according to the national vaccination calendar, what to be vaccinated against additionally, and what important vaccines are being developed in Russia today — in the Izvestia article.
What is the national vaccination calendar?
The National Preventive Vaccination Calendar (NCP) is a document that specifies which vaccinations and at what age Russians should be given. Vaccination is carried out free of charge within the framework of compulsory medical insurance. Vaccinations from the calendar can reduce the risk of disease in children and adults. If a person gets sick, thanks to vaccination, his disease will be mild, explains Irina Slivinskaya, an infectious disease specialist at the Docdeti and Docmed clinics.
— The goal of vaccination is to form collective immunity and thus reduce the circulation of viruses and bacteria to a minimum. After the introduction of vaccines, post-vaccination reactions may develop in the form of fever, malaise, and soreness at the injection site, but none of these manifestations are comparable to those of the actual disease and its complications. A person can get an infection, but the main advantage of being vaccinated is that they have protected themselves from severe course and development of complicated forms of the disease, — says Irina Slivinskaya.
The NCP specifies when and which vaccinations should be given to adults and children. According to Slivinskaya, vaccination of children is monitored by parents, pediatricians and foster nurses in polyclinics, and vaccination of adults depends on how responsible a person is about their health.
In addition to the NCP, Russia also has a calendar of preventive vaccinations for epidemic indications. Such vaccination is carried out during an epidemic, when there is a threat of its occurrence or an outbreak. Alexander Gintsburg, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the N.F. Gamalei National Research Center for Preventive Vaccinations, told Izvestia that the national calendar of preventive vaccinations and the calendar of preventive vaccinations for epidemic indications are two different calendars.
— They are so different that the federal budget is responsible for the first one, and the governor is responsible for the second one. But the governor can purchase vaccines if the chief sanitary doctor of the region announces that this should be done," Ginzburg said.
The calendars are approved by the Ministry of Health. Vaccination documents are developed taking into account the epidemiological situation, the most dangerous infectious diseases, and the development of new vaccines, so changes may be made to the calendar. For example, vaccinations may be added and the age of vaccination may be reduced. The latest calendar was approved at the end of 2021. It is still in effect.
Izvestia sent a request to the Ministry of Health and Rospotrebnadzor.
What vaccinations should I get in 2026?
According to the NCP, toddlers, children and adolescents, as well as adults, should be vaccinated.
Among vaccinations, for example:
— Vaccination against viral hepatitis B: newborns in the first 24 hours of life, one-month-old children, children aged two months who are at risk, six-month-old children, 12-month-old children at risk, children from 1 to 17 years old, adults from 18 to 55 years old, previously unvaccinated.
— Vaccination against diphtheria, tetanus: three-month-olds, 4.5-month-olds, six-month-olds, 18-month-olds, 6-7-year-olds, 14-year-olds, adults over the age of 18 (revaccination every 10 years from the moment of the last revaccination).
— Measles vaccination: 12-month-olds, six-year-olds, children 1-17 years old, not sick, not vaccinated, once vaccinated adults 18-35 years old, adults 36-55 years old, belonging to risk groups.
— Flu vaccination: children from six months old, schoolchildren, students, pregnant women, adults over 60 years old, conscripts, people with chronic diseases, doctors, teachers, police officers, border guards.
What kind of vaccinations are given in Russia for epidemic indications
Vaccinations for epidemic indications are given to people who are at risk, when an epidemic is raging in the region or there is a possibility of its occurrence.
Ivan Konovalov, Associate Professor of the Department of Infectious Diseases in Children at Pirogov University, believes that in 2026, in the absence of timely immunization, the possibility of vaccine-preventable infections such as influenza, measles, and whooping cough will remain. Andrey Pozdnyakov, an infectious disease specialist at Invitro and an expert at the Infowork educational marketplace, believes that it is difficult to predict epidemic risks for the next year, but in his opinion, there are several obvious ones.
— The current measles epidemic will continue sluggishly, because so far, despite vaccination, the number of people who have been ill and the level of those immunized against measles has not reached the point at which the incidence rate is decreasing. Today, about 80% of those who have been ill and vaccinated with measles, and 95% are needed," explains the infectious disease specialist.
According to Ginzburg, in order to know the epidemic risks, it is necessary to constantly monitor each region.
According to the calendar of preventive vaccinations for epidemic indications from 2021, the vaccine, for example, is given:
— against measles;
— against tularemia — for those who live in areas with enzootic tularemia (territories with animals suffering from enzootia);
— against the plague;
— against brucellosis — in foci of goat-sheep type of brucellosis;
— against anthrax — for veterans and those who slaughter animals;
— anti—rabies - veterans, foresters, hunters;
— against tick-borne viral encephalitis;
— against cholera;
— against meningococcal infection;
— against pneumococcal infection;
— against viral hepatitis A;
— against coronavirus infection caused by the SARS-CoV2 virus.
There are 24 vaccinations in the calendar.
What kind of paid vaccinations can a Russian get?
In private clinics, even vaccinations included in the national calendar are given to patients for a fee. Another point is that there are vaccines that are not included in this calendar, so they are considered additional and are given for money.
Pozdnyakov recommends that all adults and children be vaccinated against meningococcal infection. Although it is not as contagious as viral infections, its severe forms have an extremely high mortality rate, the doctor says. In addition, this infection is transmitted by airborne droplets.
— If there is an outbreak of meningococcus in the teams, the risks of getting sick are quite high. Especially for meningococcal infection, those people who work in a small area with poor ventilation are at risk," says the doctor.
He also advises to get a chickenpox vaccine if you did not get sick with it in childhood: in adulthood, people get more sick, complications occur more often, herpes zoster (shingles) may appear. Pozdnyakov recommends that the elderly, smokers and those with chronic lung pathology be vaccinated against pneumococcal infection, and those who often travel to southern countries against hepatitis A.
Infectious disease specialist Slivinskaya also considers it necessary to be vaccinated against meningococcus, hepatitis A, and pneumococcus.
— If an adult is determined to be vaccinated, then first you can contact the polyclinic at the place of attachment of the compulsory medical insurance policy and clarify the availability of vaccines for adults — there are regional and municipal procurement programs for which vaccination may be available under compulsory medical insurance. Vaccination against influenza and measles virus may be available under the VMI program," the doctor notes.
Ginzburg strongly recommends that people over the age of 60 get vaccinated against covid.
What vaccinations are planned to be added to the calendar?
In the summer of 2024, Elena Uvarova, the chief freelance pediatric gynecologist at the Ministry of Health, said that HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccination would be included in the national vaccination calendar in 2026. In September 2025, Yulia Drozhzhina, a member of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection, took the initiative to include this vaccination in the document.
As Drozhzhina told Izvestia, according to the Ministry of Health, a domestic HPV vaccine is currently being developed, and it is tentatively planned that it will be added to the calendar in 2026.
— Studies show that certain types of HPV can cause cancer. And doctors recommend vaccinating girls in adolescence, before they have sex. My position is that such a measure is necessary for the systemic prevention of cancer in women. Meanwhile, this is not so much a question of my opinion as of the availability of funds in the budget and the readiness of the state healthcare system," the deputy commented.
In addition, according to Drozhzhina, vaccination against rotavirus, meningococcal infections, hepatitis A and chickenpox is included in Moscow in addition to the national calendar. The MP believes that these vaccinations should be included in the list of mandatory for each region.
Konovalov believes that the list of the calendar needs to be expanded to include vaccines against rotavirus, meningococcal infections, HPV, chickenpox, hepatitis A. In addition, according to him, additional revaccinations against whooping cough should be introduced.
Sergei Leonov, head of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection, noted that Russia is preparing a domestic meningococcal vaccine. He believes that this vaccination should be included in the national calendar. When it is possible to produce a sufficient number of doses, then the vaccine will be added to the document, the deputy says.
Doctors, scientists and members of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection interviewed by Izvestia believe that there is no need to reduce the list of vaccines in the calendar.
What new vaccines are being developed in Russia
First of all, all experts consider the vaccine against meningococcal infection to be an important development. Although Russia uses a foreign meningococcal vaccine, doctors consider it necessary to develop a domestic one — it is cheaper and will help to become independent from others.
— Now more vaccines are being developed to replace what we previously received from abroad in connection with the latest geopolitical events. And that's right. Moreover, a number of developments are superior to Western ones," Pozdnyakov notes.
The Russian vaccine is being developed by specialists from the Federal Medical and Biological Agency (FMBA). As the FMBA reported in July, the meningococcal vaccine will be available in 2027.
— Clinical trials of the vaccine have already been completed, it is ready, and production capacities are being increased. When they are scaled up and we will be able to produce the number of doses that will allow us to include this disease in the national calendar, then the vaccine will be introduced," Leonov said.
According to Pozdnyakov, the FMBA meningococcal vaccine contains a larger number of strains than its foreign counterparts. This means that she will be better protected.
As previously reported by Izvestia, the Gamaleya Center is developing a vaccine against chikungunya fever. The drug is not intended for mass vaccination, but for those who often travel to countries with a high epidemic threat.
In addition, today Russian scientists have created a vaccine against cancer. She will be tested on a group of patients by the end of the year. However, as Ginzburg notes, this vaccine is not preventive, but curative. It is intended for those who have already been diagnosed with cancer.
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