Russian Olympics

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The Russian Olympiad is a competition organized for schoolchildren learning Russian and was established on the initiative of the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature (MAPRJAL). The international Russian Olympiad has been held in Moscow since 1972. For this, the participants qualify in national Russian Olympiads.

International Russian Olympics

In 1972 there was the 1st international Russian Olympiad in Moscow. In 1975 the 2nd international Russian Olympics took place. The international Russian Olympics in Moscow originally took place every three years. In 1991 the 7th International Russian Olympics was held, in which 237 students from 26 countries took part, 30 of them from the first all-German team of reunified Germany. In 2004 7 German students took part in the international Russian Olympics. The 12th International Russian Olympics was held in Moscow in 2008. In 2014 the 13th International Russian Olympics was held in Moscow. In December 2018, the 16th international Russian Olympics took place at the Pushkin Institute with 127 candidates from 34 countries in Moscow.

National Russian Olympiads

German Democratic Republic

In the GDR, Russian was a compulsory subject from year 5. Nationwide Russian Olympics have been held since 1965. The qualification for this took place at school, district and district level . The winners of the nationwide Russian Olympiad were sent to the international Russian Olympiad, which takes place every three years. Angela Merkel won the Russian Olympiad in 1969 and then took part in the international Russian Olympiad in Moscow. The 12th Russian Olympics were held in the GDR in the 1975/6 school year.

Federal Republic of Germany

The German Association of Russian Teachers has held a federal Olympiad every third year since 1977. The event is only supported by the voluntary commitment of the teachers. The last Federal Olympiad took place in 2012.

Austria

The first nationwide Russian Olympics were held in Austria in 1972 and the second in 1975. The fourth nationwide Austrian Russian Olympics was held in the 1980/81 school year. Two more nationwide Austrian Russian Olympics were held in 2008 and 2013.

Poland

At the end of the 1960s, schools in Poland began to hold Russian Olympics, in which between 20,000 and 60,000 students participated.

Russian Olympics in German federal states

In 2018, a nationwide Russian Olympics took place in North Rhine-Westphalia, which was organized by the Russian Teachers' Association of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Individual evidence

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  6. ^ German successes at the Russian Olympics , Neues Deutschland , July 1, 1991
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  10. ↑ Шагаем по Москве - The International Russian Olympiad in Moscow , stubenbastei.at, January 5, 2019
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  13. ↑ www.n-tv.de: SED was mad at Merkel, from January 24, 2013, accessed on September 25, 2019
  14. ↑ Nationwide Russian Olympics on the website of the German Association of Russian Teachers
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  16. ↑ Österreichisches Jahrbuch, Volume 53, printing and publishing house of the Österr. Staatsdruckerei, 1981, p. 130 [6]
  17. ↑ January Papiór: language policy in Poland. In: Glottodidactica, vol. 22, 1994, pp. 41-54, here p. 51
  18. ↑ Participation in the 40th Russian Olympics in Bonn - Bad Godesberg , marienschule-bielefeld.de, June 15, 2018