On the team were Petr Losev, Vladislav Zhiganov, and Daria Grekova from Moscow, as well as Gimran Abdullin from Kazan. To make it to the IOI, the team had to pass the national selection and win the Russian olympiad in computer science. Among the team’s coaches were lecturers from ITMO, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), and the Higher School of Economics; the head coach was Andrey Stankevich, the dean of ITMO’s Information Technologies and Programming Faculty.
The competition included two rounds, each five hours long and including six algorithmic problems. For additional points, contestants were asked to develop hard-level tests for a task. Although the task was new to everyone, the Russian students did a great job.
The Russian team ended the 2025 IOI with two gold (Petr Losev and Vladislav Zhiganov) and two silver medals (Daria Grekova and Gimran Abdullin).
“Each year, Russian students demonstrate high results at the competition. Since the start of the contest, our team has secured more than 120 medals, with over 70 gold ones. Talented students are trained by Russia’s best coaches, including those from ITMO; they practice on tasks similar to the contest’s ones in topics and complexity. Before joining the national team, students have a long way to go: starting at 5th-6th grade, they take part in training camps and collect wins at the national olympiad,” says Andrey Stankevich, the dean of ITMO’s Information Technologies and Programming Faculty.
The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) for school students has been held annually since 1989. This year, the competition took place in Sucre, Bolivia, and drew contestants from 87 countries. The Russian team excelled at the contest last year – in total, the current team has 20 gold, 8 silver, and one bronze medals.
