Dates: November 5, 2020 - December 13, 2020
registration closed
1st age group:
Participants 12 - 16 years of age
2hd age group:
Participants 17 - 30 years of age
On behalf of Saint Petersburg State University and the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, we welcome you here, on the website of the most extensive Olympiad in Russian as a foreign language.
St Petersburg University is the oldest university in Russia.
Today it hosts more than 20 thousand students, and among them over 5,000 are non-residents who have chosen the very first Russian university to obtain their degrees compliant to the strictest university standards.
St Petersburg University has been arranging for various
Olympiads for more than 100 years. Annually, since 2018, it has been arranging for the Russian as a foreign language Olympiads.
In the previous 2019, more than 7,000 non-residents from 131 countries from all four corners of the world participated in that unique event. We welcome you to join us and become a part of the most extensive Olympiad in Russian as a foreign language arranged for in collaboration with the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.
During the current year, as the comfortable and regular flow of each person's life has not but changed, it is quite essential to create and implement different additional challenges to provide a platform to perform one's best and have one's progress evaluated deservedly.
This Olympiad is not just a challenging platform where the strongest always win, and they are worthy of our pride. By and large, we have initiated an event to encourage those who once decided to study this rich, imaginative and meaningful language either for their hobby, or for their mission, undergo evaluation, and covet for further stimuli to study, broaden the horizons and challenges to be reached for and overcome.
We wish you good luck!
The qualification stage comprises tests with the close-end tasks (with one or multiple choice answers), open-end tasks, which require extended answers, and tasks of advanced challenge, which require creativity and intelligence.
Further, the qualifications will offer you tasks on texts which target the ability to comprehend, apart from the plot, the details of the narration. We have developed the tasks to check your Grammar, Vocabulary, and Syntax awareness. All tasks are displayed according to the order of increasing complexity.
Task running time is limited. There is only one attempt available.
Demo materialsThe final stage comprises close-end tasks (with one or multiple choice answers), open-end tasks, which require extended answers, and tasks of advanced challenge, which require creativity and intelligence.
You will be assigned to deal with texts in various functional styles to check your comprehension of the main idea, the plot as well as the details. All tasks are displayed according to the order of increasing complexity.
Task accomplishing time is limited. There is only one attempt available.
Demo materialsThe qualification stage comprises tests with the close-end tasks (with one or multiple choice answers), open-end tasks, which require extended answers, and tasks of advanced challenge, which require creativity and intelligence.
Further, the qualifications will offer you tasks on texts which target the ability to comprehend, apart from the plot, the details of the narration. We have developed the tasks to check your Grammar, Vocabulary, and Syntax awareness. All tasks are displayed according to the order of increasing complexity.
Task running time is limited. There is only one attempt available.
Demo materialsThe final stage comprises close-end tasks (with one or multiple choice answers), open-end tasks, which require extended answers, and tasks of advanced challenge, which require creativity and intelligence.
You will be assigned to deal with texts in various functional styles to check your comprehension of the main idea, the plot as well as the details. All tasks are displayed according to the order of increasing complexity.
Task accomplishing time is limited. There is only one attempt available.
Demo materials
In 2019, 7199 applicants from 131 countries from all four corners of the world became participants of our event.
This year to participate is easy:
1st age group:
Participants 12 - 16 years of age
2hd age group:
Participants 17 - 30 years of age
You may read the Guideline here following the link.
Upon the Olympiad results, the prize-winners receive:
Diplomas
Gifts
Textbooks to study Russian
The free access to undergo the State Test of Russian as a Foreign Language (TORFL) and obtain an internationally recognised and approved certificate which is but the only official document confirming one's level of Russian language competency.
A relevant diploma which provides bonuses upon competing for the SPBU admission.The goal of the event is to popularise and render support to the Russian language, to increase the significance of Russian as a language of international communication.
The 2nd round of the Olympiad will last until 12/13/2020. We offer you not only to test your knowledge at our Olympiad by completing the tasks of the 2nd round, but also to take virtual walks through the museums of St. Petersburg State University.
We glad to share with you this informative and interesting material.During a pandemic you can broaden your horizons, learn something new and spend time with benefit.
The final round of the Olympiad is completed.
After 20 December 2020 we will announce the results of the biggest Olympiad in Russian as a foreign language.
The results of our competition have been summed up!
More than 9500 participants from 147 countries took part in the competition. The winners and prize-winners were 945 strongest participants from 80 countries around the world!
The State Test of Russian as a Foreign Language (TORFL) is the exam, which provides the most unbiased assessment of the acquired level of the Russian language competency.
In 2019, 500 Olympiad winners obtained vouchers to undergo the Test free of charge. We are proud of their progress and believe that the resulting from their hard work certificate has opened them promising opportunities both for their career and studies as well as has become their achievement to foster stimuli.
Read more about TORFL
