Tuymaada International Olympiad Insights
TUYMAADA INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIAD IN MATHEMATICS
Dr. Sergey Popov, Professor, Dr. Sc. in Physics and Mathematics,
Chief Scientific Secretary of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),
Mathematics Methodological Commission Chair
Since 1994, the Ministry of Educa-
tion of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
organizes the Tuymaada International
Olympiad in Mathematics, Physics,
Chemistry and Informatics in Yakutsk.
The geography of participants of the
Olympiad is expanding every year. The
teams of school students come from Romania, China, Turkey,
Mongolia, the Republic of Korea, Thailand, Germany, the USA
(Alaska), Belgium, France, Kazakhstan, the Republic of Buryatia,
Tyva, the Agino-Buryat Autonomous Okrug, and different cities
of the Russian Federation. There is no doubt that Tuymaada
Olympiad has significantly enriched the olympiad movement
in our republic and opened new horizons for its development.
The school olympiad movement in the Republic of Sakha
(Yakutia) goes back to 1962. That year, on the initiative of a
member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Professor Mikhail
Lavrentiev, the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of
the USSR and Novosibirsk State University held the first All-
Siberian Olympiad for secondary school students in Yakutia.
On the other hand, it may be confidently asserted that the
first successes of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the finals of
all-Russian olympiads for school students in mathematics are
closely related to the success of Tuymaada Olympiad.
Until 1997, the Republican Olympiad for school students
was mostly won by the students of the Republican School
of Physics and Mathematics (currently Republican Lyceum
Boarding School) who consistently reached the third stage of
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the competition. Among them are Tuyaara Leontieva, Nyurgun
Lazarev, Georgy Afanasiev, Ivan Yuchugyaev, Elley Shamaev,
Andrey Mestnikov, Albert Fyodorov, Natasha Yakovleva, Pavel
Zakharov, Aleksey Afanasiev, Evgenia Delakhova, Mikhail
Tulasynov, Aleksey Ten, and Aleksandr Davydov. Afterwards,
some of them successfully participated in the fourth zonal
stage of the All-Russian Olympiad for school students, but,
unfortunately, none of them passed to the fifth and final stage
of the Olympiad. All those students represented the Republic
in the early Tuymaada International Olympiads.
In 1997, Mikhail Antonov, a ninth grade student of the
Republican College, became the winner of the third stage of
the Republican Olympiad and was awarded the 4th place at the
third stage of the All-Russian Olympiad for school students.
This enabled him to join the Far Eastern and Siberian Zone
Team and to participate in the fourth and final stage of the All-
Russian Olympiad. In April 1997 I left for Kaluga as the leader
of a team that consisted of only one student - Mikhail Antonov.
Since then, the team of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) has been
consistently taking part in the finals of all-Russian olympiads in
mathematics.
In 1998, the team of the Republic consisting of students of
the Republican College Mikhail Antonov, Valeryan Vasiliev and
Pyotr Yakovlev took part in the fifth and final stage of the All-
Russian Olympiad in mathematics in Yaroslavl. We met the team
leaders of other Russian Federation regions, members of the
jury, and the chair of the jury Dr. Nazar Agakhanov. Since then,
one of the leading trainers of the Russian Federation AleksandrView entire presentation