Intro
In 2021, even official Ahmadiyya sources claim less than 50 #Ahmadis in all of Russia. There is an Ahmadiyya twitter account for Russia, see here. Factually, in 1893, in Hamamatul Bushra, MGA called the Russian Christians as Gog and Magog. By 2022, there doesn’t seem to be a single Ahmadi in all of Russia. In 2008, in “Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosques Around the World”, it is stated that there were 3 #ahmadis in Russia who seem to be working as psuedo-Murrabi’s, Mr. Khalid Ahmad and Mr. Ristam Hammad Wali in Moscow and Hafiz Saeed-ur-Rahman working in Kazan Tatarstan. They seem to be totally missing by 2021. In 1984, the owners of the Shezan company pay for the translation of the Ahmadiyya Quran into Russian. Its unclear if this was completed. However, it doesn’t seem to have attracted any Russians. After 2006, the Qadiani-Ahmadi’ seem to have invented a revelation of MGA about Ahmadi’s converting in Russia like grains of sand, this was added in the 2009 english edition of Tadhkirah and came from the Register Riwayat-e-Sahabah, which seems to be a missing book.
The history of Ahmadiyya in Russia started after WW-1. Ahmadiyya missionaries were sent to Russia illegally in 1921-1927 era. However, there seems to be a companion of MGA who claimed that MGA had a revelation that his followers were like grains of sand in Russia (see in the below). This was obviously never fulfilled, and in fact, seems to have been made by after the fact. This was also in the 1976 english edition of Tadhkirah. In 1921-1922, the 2nd Khalifa and his team of writers wrote and presented “A Present to His Royal Highness – The Prince of Wales” to British authorities. In this book, the 2nd Khalifa claimed that Ahmadiyya would spread in Bukhara (see page 97). He didn’t mention the “like grains of sand” fabrication which appeared in most likely 1965 in Tadhkirah. The 2nd Khalifa also gave revelations of MGA which indicate that the majority of Europe would convert to Ahmadiyya. He also claimed that MGA’s “doomsday-earthquake” was fulfilled via Russia’s involvement in WW-1.
I came across an interesting book just recently, it is: “A call to Islam in the USSR” by A.R. Mughal. This book is essentially an oral narrative by Maulvi Zahoor Hussain of his imprisonment in the USSR. I have read this book thoroughly and am shocked at the behavior of Ahmadiyyat and the involvement of the British in their support. This book essentially proves to the world that Ahmadiyyat always had support from the British government in almost every aspect of its operations. Another Ahmadi Murrabi was also sent, Maulvi Muhammad Amin.
Here are a few quotes from the Al-Fazl of 1923. In October of 1924 (see Bashir Ahmad, “Ahmadiyya British-Jewish connections”, page 89), while the Khalifa was in London, Maulvi Zahoor Hussain and Maulvi Muhammad Amin are sent into Russia with Abdul Majid.
Maulvi Zahoor Hussain’s grandchildren live in the USA nowdays, his grandson is a major worker of Ahmadiyya INC. @Harris_Zafar. The Khalifa, Mirza Basheer ud Din Mahmud Ahmad mentioned this incident in 1945 via a speech that was turned into a book, “The Economic System of Islam”, see page 75), Maulvi Zahoor Hussain was in the audience. We should also remember that MGA called Russia and the British as Gog and Magog in 1893.

