Russian pupils win 91 international olympiad medals so far this year

Russian school teams have won 64 gold, 26 silver and one bronze medal in 2026, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko said.

Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov presented the interim results on October 12 alongside Chernyshenko. He said teams had competed in six main and eight intermediate contests and that every participant had returned with a medal. Of the total awards, 31 came from competitions classified as main olympiads.

The medal tally includes the 60th International Mendeleev Chemistry Olympiad, the Asian Physics Olympiad, the second Open International Biology Olympiad, the second Avicenna International Biology Olympiad and the 17th Romanian Master of Mathematics.

Team members came from Moscow, St Petersburg and the Moscow region, as well as Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Mordovia, the Sirius federal territory and Krasnodar territory. The participating regions also included Novosibirsk, Volgograd, Samara, Chelyabinsk, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod and Lipetsk.

The Education Ministry supports preparation through the Youth and Children national project. The season is still underway and will conclude in December with Russia’s participation in the 23rd International Junior Science Olympiad.