National Research Nuclear University MEPhI has held a final tour of the All-Russian student contest in physics. This year in accordance with the contest distribution of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation our university again obtained the right to hold four contests out of the All-Russian student contest list. In April MEPhI hosted Russian students participating in contests in directions “Automatics, electronics and nanostructured electronics” and “Information security”, and in the end of May it will meet talented youth which will come to conquer “educational Olymp” in nuclear physics and technology.

The direction of the contest – the “Physics” discipline – supposes that in the final stage there will be the best students of the strongest universities of our country. Lomonosov MSU, MEPhI, SPbU, MIPT, Lobachevsky UNN, UrFU and other leading Russian universities have met at the final competition in Moscow to find the leader among strong and well-trained competitors.

All in all, 183 students from 28 Russian universities took part in the All-Russian student contest in physics, more than 2000 people fought for the right to participate in the final.

We should mention that foreign students also took part in the contest despite the Russian status of the contest. Students from Bangladesh, Vietnam, Kirghizia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia checked their knowledge in fundamental physics.

Representatives of MEPhI administration, employees of scientific subdivisions and departments, heads of leading companies-employers welcomed the participants.

As a result, MEPhI has again become the winner of the All-Russian student contest in physics.

Following people have won the contest:

• Winner – Maksim Kulaev, MEPhI;
• 2nd degree awardee – Maxim Khabarov, MIPT;
• 3rd degree awardee – Mikhail Mlodik, Lobachevsky UNN.

In the team event:

• 1^st place – team of MEPhI and MIPT;
• 2^nd place – team of Lobachevsky UNN;
• 3^rd place – team of Lomonosov MSU.

As the winner of the contest Maksim Kulaev said, it was he his first participation in such competition: “I was expecting just to show decent result but eventually I won it, which undoubtedly is very pleasant. The tasks were difficult, but I trained hard”.