diff --git a/docs/ops/hardening-2026-09-10.md b/docs/ops/hardening-2026-09-10.md
index f8d51f59..e2951860 100644
--- a/docs/ops/hardening-2026-09-10.md
+++ b/docs/ops/hardening-2026-09-10.md
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ UID 10001 имеет настоящую запись пользователя `r
 до создания кандидата. `npm ci` использует строгую проверку engines и повторяет
 только сетевые сбои: максимум три попытки под общим таймаутом и контролем диска.
 Ошибки зависимостей и postinstall не маскируются повторными попытками.
+В новой Python-venv закреплён pip 26.2.1 с проверкой SHA-256 bootstrap-wheel
+и ограниченной докачкой оборванных загрузок. Несовпадение хешей по-прежнему
+останавливает установку; активная venv и системный pip не обновляются.
 
 Остановка Gunicorn использует SIGTERM и достаточный таймаут мягкого завершения.
 Код 143 Next.js при штатной остановке не считается аварией. Telegram-транспорт
diff --git a/ops/deploy/README.md b/ops/deploy/README.md
index 787cff7c..fc53344c 100644
--- a/ops/deploy/README.md
+++ b/ops/deploy/README.md
@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ attempts under one 30-minute timeout and the same disk watchdog. Dependency,
 engine and postinstall failures are not retried. The per-candidate npm cache is
 removed after installation and with any failed candidate.
 
+Each Python candidate bootstraps the pinned, SHA-256-verified pip wheel in
+`pip-bootstrap.txt`. Package downloads use bounded retries/resume for truncated
+network transfers. TLS and package hash checks remain enabled; a real integrity
+mismatch still fails the deployment. The system pip and active venv are not changed.
+
 The deployment requires at least 4 GiB and 50,000 free inodes before creating a
 release. Build and database-dump process groups have a 30-minute timeout and are
 monitored every two seconds; they are stopped if free space falls below 512 MiB
diff --git a/ops/deploy/eusrr-deploy b/ops/deploy/eusrr-deploy
index 0b5ec4ba..e19e6401 100755
--- a/ops/deploy/eusrr-deploy
+++ b/ops/deploy/eusrr-deploy
@@ -668,7 +668,12 @@ log "Creating an isolated Python environment."
 run_bounded_build /usr/bin/python3 -m venv "${NEW_RELEASE}/backend/.venv"
 run_bounded_build env PIP_DISABLE_PIP_VERSION_CHECK=1 \
   "${NEW_RELEASE}/backend/.venv/bin/python" -m pip install \
-  --no-cache-dir --requirement "${NEW_RELEASE}/backend/requirements.txt"
+  --no-cache-dir --timeout=60 --retries=5 --only-binary=:all: --require-hashes \
+  --requirement "${NEW_RELEASE}/ops/deploy/pip-bootstrap.txt"
+run_bounded_build env PIP_DISABLE_PIP_VERSION_CHECK=1 \
+  "${NEW_RELEASE}/backend/.venv/bin/python" -m pip install \
+  --no-cache-dir --timeout=60 --retries=5 --resume-retries=5 \
+  --requirement "${NEW_RELEASE}/backend/requirements.txt"
 run_bounded_build "${NEW_RELEASE}/backend/.venv/bin/python" -m pip check
 run_bounded_build "${NEW_RELEASE}/backend/.venv/bin/python" -c 'import shutil; assert shutil.which("magick") or shutil.which("convert"), "ImageMagick is required for safe oversized-image processing"'
 run_bounded_build "${NEW_RELEASE}/backend/.venv/bin/python" \
diff --git a/ops/deploy/pip-bootstrap.txt b/ops/deploy/pip-bootstrap.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b5a430ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ops/deploy/pip-bootstrap.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# PyPI wheel for pip 26.2.1; bootstrap itself remains hash-verified.
+pip==26.2.1 --hash=sha256:71138adf1f4ca900cdb7d289c21b7494329f2332b6d85f0e1c42108c0384ed3e
diff --git a/ops/deploy/tests/test_deploy_lifecycle.py b/ops/deploy/tests/test_deploy_lifecycle.py
index 65953315..a8aef69a 100644
--- a/ops/deploy/tests/test_deploy_lifecycle.py
+++ b/ops/deploy/tests/test_deploy_lifecycle.py
@@ -236,6 +236,18 @@ class DeploymentLifecycleTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertFalse((self.releases/TARGET).exists())
         self.assertFalse((self.root/'npm_attempts').exists())
 
+    def test_pip_bootstrap_is_pinned_and_download_resume_keeps_hash_checks(self):
+        result = self.run_deploy()
+        self.assertEqual(result.returncode, 0, self.output)
+        commands = (self.root/'commands').read_text()
+        self.assertIn('pip-bootstrap.txt', commands)
+        self.assertIn('--require-hashes', commands)
+        self.assertIn('--resume-retries=5', commands)
+        self.assertNotIn('--trusted-host', commands)
+        self.assertNotIn('--no-require-hashes', commands)
+        bootstrap = (SOURCE.parent/'pip-bootstrap.txt').read_text()
+        self.assertIn('pip==26.2.1 --hash=sha256:', bootstrap)
+
     def test_source_override_is_rejected_without_touching_live_release(self):
         for stage in ('origin', 'url_rewrite'):
             with self.subTest(stage=stage):