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The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation annually approves a list of Olympiads for schoolchildren, which determines the level and profile of competitions, influencing educational trajectories and opportunities for admission to universities.
The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation has approved a list of Olympiads for schoolchildren for the 2026/27 academic year, as follows from the order of the department, which was reviewed by RIA Novosti.
According to the document, the list includes 60 Olympiads in various fields, such as economics, autonomous transport sciences, unmanned aircraft systems, big data and machine learning, genome editing, nuclear technology, philology, financial literacy and many others.
Each Olympiad is assigned a level: I, II or III. The list includes, in particular, the following first-level competitions: All-Russian Academic Olympiad for Schoolchildren named after V.I. Vernadsky, All-Russian Olympiad in Agrogenetics "Innagrika", Engineering Olympiad for Schoolchildren, Kutafa Olympiad for Schoolchildren in Law, International Olympiad for Financial Security, Moscow Open Olympiad for Schoolchildren in Geology and others.

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