MINSK, 26 April (BelTA) – Belarusian school students took six awards of various merit at the 55th International Mendeleev Chemistry Olympiad. The results of the online competition were announced on 26 April, BelTA learned from the press service of Belarusian State University (BSU).
The Belarusian team won six awards of various merit. Student of the BSU Lyceum Vladimir Kunder took a bronze medal. Silver medals went to Kirill Moroz and Nikita Yeremin, students of Gymnasium No.41 and Gymnasium No.33 of Minsk. Students of Minsk Gymnasium No.29 Konstantin Goncharik and Daniil Maksimovich as well as Matvei Baklazhanets from the gymnasium of Grodno were presented with bronze medals as well. Aleksei Bobrik from the Molodechno Gymnasium-College of Arts received a participant's diploma.
Raul-Mircea Bodrogean from Romania became the absolute winner of the olympiad, receiving the Valery Lunin Award worth $5,000.
Taking part in the olympiad were more than 140 school students from 28 countries, including Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey, China, Israel, Austria, Serbia, and Georgia. The competition consisted from two tours. Young chemists had to solve eight problems in five hours in the first tour. The second tour was not obligatory and requires participants to solve 15 more difficult problems in five hours.
All in all, the organizers awarded 15 gold, 29 silver, and 44 bronze medals. The event was organized by the Belarusian Education Ministry, the BSU, and Lomonosov Moscow State University.
The International Mendeleev Chemistry Olympiad is an annual event and is the successor of the All-Union Chemistry Olympiad that was first held in 1967. The olympiad is named after great Russian chemist Dmitry Mendeleev. The first editions of the International Mendeleev Chemistry Olympiad featured school students from the CIS countries and the Baltic states. Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Romania joined in 2004, Hungary, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia – in 2012. Israel, Mongolia, and Nigeria debuted at the competition in 2016. In 1997-2020, the organizing committee of the olympiad was led by Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry of Lomonosov Moscow State University Valery Lunin. Since 2021, this post has been held by associate member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Stepan Kalmykov. The organizing committee includes professors and teachers of leading universities as well as chemistry teachers of secondary schools of the participating countries.
