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Relevance. The article analyzes the social mechanisms of labor inclusion of combat veterans in the professional education system, which is of strategic importance for the labor market and educational policy in the context of the national project "Personnel" and the growing number of participants in the special military operation.

The study aims: to systematize and describe the mechanisms for attracting veterans to the professional education system as professors, lecturers, and administrative personnel, identifying their specific features, resource potential, and limitations.

Materials and methods. The work is based on structural-functional and institutional approaches, supplemented by an analysis of regulations, statistics from the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Labor, the results of surveys conducted by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center, and a questionnaire survey of employers in the education sector (Gosuslugi).

The results of the study show that today, inclusion mechanisms are implemented through quota admissions, retraining programs, coordination centers, and the pedagogization of combat experience, but they operate in a fragmented manner and require interagency coordination.

Conclusions. It is substantiated that universities act as key platforms for the institutionalization of veterans' labor inclusion; a model of delineation and complementarity of teaching and management mechanisms is proposed, creating a basis for the development of targeted programs for the recruitment, support, and professional reintegration of veterans in the educational environment.

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