All Russian school students win gold at the chemistry Olympiad in Uzbekistan

All four Russian school students who took part in the III Abu Rayhan Beruni International Chemistry Olympiad, held in Nukus, won gold medals. One of the participants became the absolute winner, and another achieved the best result in the theoretical round. The Russian team was prepared by specialists from the Center for Pedagogical Excellence and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Aziz KarimovFirst published on tafs uz 9 November 2026 at 16:522 min read

The key facts

All four Russian participants of the III Abu Rayhan Beruni International Chemistry Olympiad in Uzbekistan became gold medalists.
Ivan Ovchinnikov became the absolute winner, while Ibrahim Shaykhutdinov achieved the best result in the theoretical round.
The competition was held in Nukus with school students from more than 30 countries taking part.

A complete gold sweep for the Russian team in Nukus

All four Russian school students who took part in the III Abu Rayhan Beruni International Chemistry Olympiad in Uzbekistan won gold medals. The competition was held in the city of Nukus with school students from more than 30 countries taking part. The program included two five-hour exams: a theoretical one, requiring the solving of chemistry problems, and a practical one with laboratory experiments. Absolute victory went to Ivan Ovchinnikov from the Specialized Educational and Scientific Center of Novosibirsk State University, while the best result in the theoretical round was achieved by Ibrahim Shaykhutdinov from Kazan Lyceum No. 131. Two more gold medals for the Russian team were earned by Mikhail Inozemtsev and Vladislav Kolmakov, both of whom study at Moscow School No. 1568 named after Pablo Neruda.

Evaluation of the results and team preparation

The team's success was noted by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko and Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov, who called the result evidence of the high level of school students' training. The Deputy Prime Minister thanked the mentors and parents of the participants, emphasizing that the achievements of the young chemists demonstrate the potential of the Russian scientific school. The Russian team was prepared by Vasily Krasnobrov, a methodologist at the Moscow Center for Pedagogical Excellence, and Mikhail Matveev, a researcher at the N. N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. For the school students, taking part in the Olympiad was one of the stages of preparation for the International Chemistry Olympiad. In 2025, the Russian team at the Beruni competition won three gold and one silver medal.