School stu­dents of grades 8–11 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

Saint Peters­burg Elec­tro­tech­nic­al Uni­ver­sity «LETI»

«Alabuga» — Stra­tegic Part­ner of the For­mula Unity / Third Mil­len­ni­um Olympiad

Con­tact us

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

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Chronology of events

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

Announce­ment of the Qual­i­fy­ing Round

September 7, 2026

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:
Phys­ics: Novem­ber 16, 2026 – Novem­ber 29, 2026

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.