Kazan school student wins silver at International Olympiad in Informatics!
Russian students won four medals at the 37th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI-2025), which ended in Bolivia. Gimran Abdullin from Kazan boarding Lyceum No. 2 is among the winners and the winner of the honorary title "Student of the Year of Tatarstan - 2025".
Success of the Russian team
Representatives of 87 countries took part in the prestigious international competition this year. The Russian team demonstrated outstanding results — all four participants returned with medals:
Gold medals:
• Petr Losev (School No. 57, Moscow)
• Vladislav Zhiganov (Moscow State University SESC, Moscow)
Silver medals:
• Daria Grekova (School No. 57, Moscow)
• Gimran Abdullin (Boarding Lyceum No. 2, Kazan)
Pride of Tatarstan
Gimran Abdullin is a true role model. His path to international recognition began in 2022, when he became a prize winner of the All-Russian Olympiad in Informatics. He twice took 2nd place in the All-Russian Olympiad and 1st place in the All-Russian Team Olympiad for Schoolchildren in Informatics.
This year's International Olympiad is not the first success on the world stage. In 2023 and 2024, he already became a gold medalist of the IOI. In 2025, Gimran graduated from the 11th grade and received the honorary title of "Student of the Year of Tatarstan - 2025".
The leadership of the republic expressed special gratitude to Gimran's mentor - computer science teacher of boarding school No. 2 Ilshat Safiullin.
About the Olympiad
The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) is the most prestigious international competition in computer science for high school students, held annually since 1989. Participants solve algorithmic problems and write programs in the programming languages C++, Java and Python.
Winning the IOI is considered the highest achievement for schoolchildren in programming and opens up broad prospects for further education and careers in the world's leading IT companies.