How to make a correct redirect?

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htaccess

Hello.
There was a need to remove duplicate pages in categories and subcategories of the site as follows:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)&?page=1$
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ /$1?%1%2 [R=301, L]
But another problem appeared: if you use the site search, then when you go from any page displayed in the search results to the first one, the search query is encoded, for example:
https://example.ru/search?query=%25D1%2581 %25D1%25...
It's a redirect, but how can I change it to fix the problem?

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