2025 — 2026: Mathematics

School stu­dents of grades 5–11 from Rus­sia and of equi­val­ent grades from all over the world are invited to participate.
Par­ti­cip­a­tion in the com­pet­i­tion is free. All school stu­dents can take part in the qual­i­fy­ing round and the win­ners of it are invited to the final round. Win­ners of the pre­vi­ous Olympi­ad (with dip­lo­mas of any degree) are also invited dir­ectly to the finals.

Olympiad’s organ­izers

The Olympi­ad 2025/26 is organ­ized by

Saint Peters­burg Elec­tro­tech­nic­al Uni­ver­sity «LETI»

RANEPA

Balt­ic State Tech­nic­al Uni­ver­sity ‘Voen­meh’ named after D. F. Ustinov

Con­tact us

You can send your ques­tions by e‑mail olimp@​formulo.​org.


Current status: The final round preliminary results are published. The final results will be published soon.

Chronology of events

All the news about the Olympiad are posted below from newest to oldest.

Pre­lim­in­ary res­ults of the final stage

April 20, 2026

The res­ults of the assess­ment have appeared in your per­son­al account. We are also attach­ing the solu­tions and assess­ment cri­ter­ia for the Olympiad.

If you would like to see a scan of your work for fur­ther appeal, please request a scan of your work by mail no later than April 22. After this, if you dis­agree with any of the scores, you can sub­mit an appeal with­in two days of receiv­ing the scans in your per­son­al account (spe­cify­ing the prob­lem num­bers and the reas­ons why you believe the score should be revised).

You can request your work from the jury by email solv@​formulo.​org (requests sent via the organ­iz­ing com­mit­tee’s email will not be con­sidered). In the sub­ject line, write «Work Request»; in the email itself, please include the region of par­ti­cip­a­tion, class, and par­ti­cipant code. Without this inform­a­tion, your work will not be sent. We will send you your work by email with­in approx­im­ately 24 hours of your request.

Regis­tra­tion for the final stage

February 24, 2026

Dear par­ti­cipants!

Regis­tra­tion is now open for the final stage of the Olympi­ad, which will take place on March 9 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM loc­al time. (Times may vary in some regions; exact inform­a­tion can be found in the list of ven­ues in your per­son­al account. The time in the inform­a­tion sys­tem is Moscow time. We recom­mend check­ing the inform­a­tion a couple of days before the Olympi­ad, as the organ­izers may adjust the start time.)

To select a ven­ue in your per­son­al account:

  1. Go to the «Olympi­ads» section.
  2. Find the «Math­em­at­ics 2025–26» Olympi­ad in the table of Olympiads.
  3. Click the green «Open» but­ton under the words «Final Stage» next to your class.
  4. Check the box next to the appro­pri­ate ven­ue. This is suf­fi­cient; you don’t need to do any­thing else.

If you haven’t fully entered the per­son­al inform­a­tion required for par­ti­cip­a­tion, the sys­tem will prompt you to do so.

You will see your par­ti­cipant code at the top of the site list page; write it down and take it with you to the Olympi­ad. The code must be indic­ated on every page of your Olympi­ad paper. We also recom­mend writ­ing down the organ­izer­’s phone num­ber (it’s in the site description).

We recom­mend arriv­ing at the selec­ted site 10–15 minutes before the sched­uled time to find the right room. You must bring an iden­ti­fic­a­tion doc­u­ment and a blank A4 sheet of paper. The use of phones and oth­er com­mu­nic­a­tion devices is pro­hib­ited dur­ing the Olympiad.

Regis­tra­tion will be open until March 5, 2026.

Res­ults of the qual­i­fy­ing round

January 22, 2026

Dear par­ti­cipants!

Indi­vidu­al res­ults are avail­able in per­son­al accounts of our Inform­a­tion sys­tem. The par­ti­cipants who reached the threshold score will be invited to the final round.

And in the pro­tocol of the qual­i­fy­ing round:

If you do not see your­self in the pro­tocol, this means that you have not yet filled out the neces­sary per­son­al data in your per­son­al account.
The points for passing to the final round by class are as follows:

R5

R6

R7

R8

R9

R10

R11

20 points

20 points

18 points

18 points

20 points

22 points

16 points

Fol­low the updates on the website.

Organ­iz­ing com­mit­tee address: olimp@​formulo.​org.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to the final­ists and see you at the final stage!

Date of the final stage

January 15, 2026

Dear par­ti­cipants!

Please note that the final stage of the Olympi­ad will take place on March 9.

Inform­a­tion about the ven­ues and the regis­tra­tion link will be pub­lished later. Please stay tuned to the offi­cial resources for updates on import­ant news.

We wish you good luck in your pre­par­a­tions and look for­ward to see­ing you at the finals!

Pre­lim­in­ary res­ults of the qual­i­fy­ing round

January 9, 2026

Dear par­ti­cipants!
The pre­lim­in­ary res­ults of the qual­i­fy­ing round are now avail­able. You can view them in your per­son­al account.

You can file an appeal in your per­son­al account (the appeal dead­line is 11:59 PM Moscow time on Janu­ary 13th). Appeals are accep­ted only in your per­son­al account. The jury’s response to your request will be pos­ted there with­in a few days after your request is submitted.

The sum­mary res­ults table and passing scores will be pub­lished after all appeals have been processed.

We attach files with solu­tions to the problems:

The date for the final is cur­rently being determined.

Start of the qual­i­fy­ing round

October 15, 2025

Here is the qual­i­fy­ing (remote) round of the competition.

Please remem­ber that your solu­tion of every prob­lem should include not only the right answer, but the full reas­on­ing as well.

We will be happy if your friends who like math­em­at­ics also par­ti­cip­ate. How­ever, every assign­ment should be done indi­vidu­ally; oth­er­wise, your sub­mis­sion will not be considered.

You do not need to repeat the text of the prob­lems in your paper. The solu­tions should be writ­ten in Rus­si­an, Eng­lish, Por­tuguese, Ger­man, Uzbek, Turk­ish, Esper­anto, Farsi or French. Use of oth­er lan­guages should be agreed with the organ­izers in advance.

The win­ners of Olympi­ad 2024/25 (those with Dip­lo­mas I‑III) can par­ti­cip­ate dir­ectly in the final round.

Prob­lems

How to sub­mit solutions

To par­ti­cip­ate in the «For­mula of Unity» / «Third Mil­len­ni­um» 2025/26 math­em­at­ics olympi­ad, it is neces­sary to sub­mit solu­tion files (each prob­lem in a sep­ar­ate file) by the dead­line of 23:59:59 UTC on Novem­ber 5, 2025 (which is 02:59:59 Moscow time on Novem­ber 6). Please register in our inform­a­tion sys­tem and sub­mit your solu­tions through the per­son­al account. Import­ant: if you already have an account, there is no need to cre­ate a new one.

Be sure to read the par­ti­cip­a­tion instructions.

You can upload either text files (in TXT, DOC, DOCX, or PDF formats) or scans of paper works (in JPG and PNG formats). Each prob­lem should be uploaded under its cor­res­pond­ing num­ber with­in the per­son­al account! In the solu­tion files, per­son­al inform­a­tion, includ­ing sur­name and name, should not be specified!

We do not accept qual­i­fy­ing round works in any way oth­er than through upload­ing with­in the inform­a­tion system.

Ques­tions?

All ques­tions to the Organ­iz­ing Com­mit­tee about the prob­lem con­di­tions and the pro­ced­ure for con­duct­ing the Olympi­ad can be asked by email olimp@​formulo.​org

Ques­tions about the oper­a­tion of the inform­a­tion sys­tem can be asked by email isys@​formulo.​org.

Olympi­ad Announcement

August 16, 2025

The Olympi­ad is held in two stages: the first (qual­i­fy­ing) stage takes place in autumn, and the second (final) stage — in February–March.

The qual­i­fy­ing stage is con­duc­ted in a dis­tance format using remote edu­ca­tion­al tech­no­lo­gies. To par­ti­cip­ate, you need to register in your per­son­al account (there is no need to re-register). On the start date of the Olympi­ad, all neces­sary inform­a­tion will be sent to your email. The Olympi­ad itself, the con­di­tions, and the answer sub­mis­sion form will be avail­able in your per­son­al account start­ing from the begin­ning date of the Olympiad.

Dates of the dis­tance stage of the Olympi­ad: Octo­ber 15, 2025 — Novem­ber 5, 2025

The final stage is usu­ally held in a face-to-face format at region­al venues.

Win­ners of the Olympi­ad receive pref­er­en­tial vouch­ers to the “For­mula of Unity” edu­ca­tion­al camps.

Announce­ment of the Qual­i­fy­ing Round

August 16, 2025

The Olympi­ad is included in the List of School Olympi­ads of the Min­istry of Edu­ca­tion and Sci­ence of the Rus­si­an Federation:
annu­ally since 2014/15.

The Olympi­ad is held in two stages, the first (qual­i­fy­ing) in the fall, and the second (final) in February-March.

The qual­i­fy­ing stage is con­duc­ted remotely using dis­tance learn­ing tech­no­lo­gies. To par­ti­cip­ate, please register in your per­son­al account (re-regis­tra­tion is not neces­sary). On the day of the Olympi­ad, all neces­sary inform­a­tion will be sent by email. The Olympi­ad itself, the rules, and the answer form will be avail­able in your per­son­al account start­ing from the day of the Olympiad.

Dates for the cor­res­pond­ence stage of the Olympiad:
Math­em­at­ics: Octo­ber 15, 2025 – Novem­ber 5, 2025

The final stage is usu­ally held in per­son at region­al venues.
Olympi­ad win­ners receive dis­coun­ted vouch­ers to the For­mula Unity edu­ca­tion­al camps.
All inform­a­tion about the Olympi­ad can also be found on the offi­cial page on the olimpi​ada​.ru portal.

For more suc­cess­ful par­ti­cip­a­tion in the Olympi­ad, we recom­mend solv­ing prob­lems from pre­vi­ous years and study­ing the recom­men­ded lit­er­at­ure.