diff --git a/.claude/CLAUDE.md b/.claude/CLAUDE.md
index da090b2..7de110e 100644
--- a/.claude/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/.claude/CLAUDE.md
@@ -252,6 +252,11 @@ The native Android app is a Capacitor 8 wrapper of the `ui` SPA, scaffolded unde
     IP bans being prod-only. It bought nothing anyway: the order is resolved from the notification
     metadata **before** any provider call, so a forged id costs one indexed read, and guessing a live
     order id means guessing a uuid.
+  - **The console refund and the `refund.succeeded` notification race, benignly.** YooKassa fires the
+    event the moment `POST /v3/refunds` returns, so the notification often records the reversal before
+    the console's own write lands. Both name the same refund id, so the ledger's idempotency index
+    catches the second and nothing is revoked twice — but the console must not then report "already
+    refunded", which reads as "you clicked twice" for a refund that just succeeded.
   - **Never key a re-check interval off the order TTL.** The order lifetime answers "how long may a
     customer take to pay"; the re-check answers "how soon do we notice a lost callback". Tying them
     together made a failed notification cost the customer the full 30-minute TTL before the chips
diff --git a/backend/internal/inttest/payments_yookassa_test.go b/backend/internal/inttest/payments_yookassa_test.go
index 9eae809..0c098a0 100644
--- a/backend/internal/inttest/payments_yookassa_test.go
+++ b/backend/internal/inttest/payments_yookassa_test.go
@@ -821,3 +821,46 @@ func TestYooKassaPendingRefundRecordsNothing(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("balance = %d, want 0", got)
 	}
 }
+
+// TestYooKassaConsoleRefundAfterItsOwnNotification covers the race the two recording paths really
+// run: the console asks the provider to refund, the provider fires refund.succeeded at once, and the
+// notification records the reversal before the console gets to. Both name the same refund id, so the
+// idempotency index catches the second write and nothing is revoked twice — but the operator must be
+// told the refund succeeded, not that they clicked twice.
+func TestYooKassaConsoleRefundAfterItsOwnNotification(t *testing.T) {
+	f, shop := newFakeYooKassa(t)
+	srv, pay := yookassaServer(t, shop)
+	acc := provisionAccount(t)
+	orderID, paymentID := fundedYooKassaOrder(t, f, srv, pay, acc)
+
+	// The provider's notification lands first, for the refund the console is about to create.
+	refundID := "refund-" + paymentID
+	f.setRefund(refundID, yookassa.Refund{
+		Status: yookassa.StatusSucceeded, PaymentID: paymentID,
+		Amount: yookassa.Amount{Value: "149.00", Currency: "RUB"},
+	})
+	if code := postYooKassaRefundNotify(t, srv, refundID, paymentID); code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("refund notify = %d, want 200", code)
+	}
+	if got := readBalance(t, acc, "direct"); got != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("balance after the notification = %d, want 0", got)
+	}
+
+	base := "http://admin.test/_gm/users/" + acc.String()
+	code, body := consoleDo(srv.Handler(), http.MethodPost, base+"/refund", "order_id="+orderID.String(), "http://admin.test")
+	if code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("console refund = %d, want 200", code)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(body, "Already refunded") {
+		t.Errorf("the console reported a repeat click for a refund it had just made successfully: %q", body)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(body, "Refunded") {
+		t.Errorf("console message = %q, want it to report the refund succeeded", body)
+	}
+	if ledgerRows(t, acc, "refund") != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("refund ledger rows = %d, want 1", ledgerRows(t, acc, "refund"))
+	}
+	if abuse, loss := readRisk(t, acc); abuse || loss != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("risk = (abuse %v, loss %d), want none", abuse, loss)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/backend/internal/server/handlers_admin_refund.go b/backend/internal/server/handlers_admin_refund.go
index fb43156..c674028 100644
--- a/backend/internal/server/handlers_admin_refund.go
+++ b/backend/internal/server/handlers_admin_refund.go
@@ -49,6 +49,15 @@ func (s *Server) consoleRefund(c *gin.Context) {
 		return
 	}
 	if out.AlreadyRefunded {
+		if ref.Provider == providerYooKassa {
+			// The provider refunded the money on this very click, so this is a success, not a repeat.
+			// The reversal was already in the ledger because the provider's own refund notification
+			// reached us first — it names the same refund id, which is exactly why the idempotency
+			// index caught it and nothing was revoked twice. Saying "already refunded" here would read
+			// as "you clicked twice".
+			s.renderConsoleMessage(c, "Refunded", "the money is back with the customer; the reversal was already recorded, so nothing changed just now", back)
+			return
+		}
 		s.renderConsoleMessage(c, "Already refunded", "this order was already refunded", back)
 		return
 	}
diff --git a/backend/internal/server/handlers_yookassa.go b/backend/internal/server/handlers_yookassa.go
index 07d27b4..969f5dd 100644
--- a/backend/internal/server/handlers_yookassa.go
+++ b/backend/internal/server/handlers_yookassa.go
@@ -282,7 +282,10 @@ func (s *Server) handleYooKassaRefundNotification(c *gin.Context, note yookassa.
 		return
 	}
 	if !out.AlreadyRefunded {
-		s.log.Info("yookassa refund notify: reversed a refund issued outside the console",
+		// This is the first record of the refund. It is usually one an operator made in the merchant
+		// cabinet, but it can equally be a console refund whose notification outran the console's own
+		// write — both name the same refund id, so either way it is recorded exactly once.
+		s.log.Info("yookassa refund notify: reversed a refund",
 			zap.String("order", ref.OrderID.String()), zap.String("refund", refund.ID),
 			zap.Int("revoked", out.Revoked), zap.Int("loss", out.Loss))
 	}
diff --git a/docs/PAYMENTS.md b/docs/PAYMENTS.md
index 25e5067..2963093 100644
--- a/docs/PAYMENTS.md
+++ b/docs/PAYMENTS.md
@@ -333,6 +333,11 @@ nothing twice. The engine is **full-refund-only** by design (it revokes exactly
 and rejects any other amount), so a **partial** refund is recorded as nothing at all and logged
 loudly for an operator: there is no non-arbitrary way to decide how many chips a part-refund costs.
 
+The two recording paths race, benignly: YooKassa fires `refund.succeeded` the moment the refund is
+created, so the notification often writes the reversal before the console's own write lands. Both
+name the same refund id, so the second is caught by the idempotency index and nothing is revoked
+twice; the console reports the refund as successful rather than as a repeated click.
+
 VK refunds are still handled by support and Telegram Stars refunds issued with `refundStarPayment`,
 both recorded by hand afterwards. All of them converge on one engine —
 the `Refund` method (`internal/payments`): it matches the paid order, appends a **refund** ledger
diff --git a/docs/PAYMENTS_ru.md b/docs/PAYMENTS_ru.md
index 628e222..e53f512 100644
--- a/docs/PAYMENTS_ru.md
+++ b/docs/PAYMENTS_ru.md
@@ -326,6 +326,11 @@ at-least-once + идемпотентный приём (дедуп по `telegram
 записывается вовсе и громко логируется для оператора: непроизвольного способа решить, скольких Фишек
 стоит часть возврата, нет.
 
+Два пути записи при этом безобидно гоняются: ЮKassa шлёт `refund.succeeded` сразу после создания
+возврата, поэтому уведомление часто записывает реверс раньше, чем это успевает сделать сама консоль.
+Оба называют один и тот же refund-id, поэтому вторая запись отсекается индексом идемпотентности и
+ничего не отзывается дважды; консоль при этом сообщает об успешном возврате, а не о повторном нажатии.
+
 Возвраты VK по-прежнему через поддержку, TG Stars — вызовом `refundStarPayment`, оба фиксируются
 руками после факта. Все сходятся на одном движке — метод `Refund`
 (`internal/payments`): матчит оплаченный заказ, пишет **refund**-строку журнала (идемпотентно по