All-Russian Physics Olympiad

The first physical Olympiads were organized by Moscow State University for Moscow schoolchildren in 1938 . In February 1962, the first “big” physics Olympiad was held by the staff and students of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). The first All-Union Olympiad of schoolchildren was held in 1967 in Moscow. Starting from the II All-Union Olympiad (1968, Yerevan), not only theoretical, but also experimental problems were included in the physics competition program.

The first chairman of the Central Organizing Committee was Academician I.K. Kikoin . Since 1988, the Central Organizing Committee was headed by a corresponding member. RAS, rector of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology N.V. Karlov .

For the organization of All-Union Olympiads and the development of teaching materials at the Central Organizing Committee, methodological commissions for subjects were established, led by scientists, university professors. The Central Subject-Methodological Commission is currently headed by MIPT Vice-Rector A. A. Voronov; until 2015, MIPT Professor S. M. Kozel headed.

At the final, All-Russian stage of the Olympiad, students are selected who have shown the best results in the previous stages. According to the Regulation on the All-Russian Olympiad, the following are held: school, municipal (district, district) and regional (regional or regional, in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sevastopol - city) stages. Also, until 2008, the federal district stage was held (previously, in the USSR, called the zonal and carried out in 4 zones of the RSFSR, not including Moscow and St. Petersburg) in 7 districts: the North-Western region, Central, Volga, Ural, Siberian , Far Eastern, Southern, as well as in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

In 2009, the Laboratory for Work with Gifted Children, which organizes the All-Russian stage, as well as the training of participants from Russia for the international olympiad, received official recognition.

All-Union Olympiads were held until the beginning of the 90s of the XX century, while the All-Russian Olympiad was then considered a zonal tour of the RSFSR. The last XXV All-Union Physics Olympiad was held in 1991 in Tashkent . The XXVI Olympiad, held in April 1992 at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology ( Dolgoprudny ), was called the Inter-Republican. In May 1992, the State Committee of the Russian Federation for Public Education made a decision in the future, on the same organizational principles on which the All-Union Olympiads were previously held, to conduct All-Russian Olympiads. Thus, the current All-Russian Physics Olympiad has become the successor to the All-Union Olympiad. This is reflected in the serial numbers of the All-Russian Olympiads:

• XXVII All-Russian Olympiad ( Zerkalny settlement, Leningrad region, 1993);
• XXVIII All-Russian Olympiad ( Tula , 1994);
• XXIX All-Russian Olympiad ( Chelyabinsk , 1995);
• XXX All-Russian Olympiad ( Oryol , 1996);
• XXXI All-Russian Olympiad ( Berezniki , Perm Region, 1997);
• XXXII All-Russian Olympiad ( Cheboksary , 1998);
• XXXIII All-Russian Olympiad ( Ulyanovsk , 1999);
• XXXIV All-Russian Olympiad ( Perm , 2000);
• XXXV All-Russian Olympiad ( Saratov , 2001);
• XXXVI All-Russian Olympiad ( Volgograd , 2002);
• XXXVII All-Russian Olympiad ( Voronezh , 2003);
• XXXVIII All-Russian Olympiad ( Yaroslavl , 2004);
• XXXIX All-Russian Olympiad ( Saransk , 2005);
• XL All-Russian Olympiad ( Snezhinsk , Chelyabinsk Region, 2006);
• XLI All-Russian Olympiad ( St. Petersburg , 2007);
• XLII All-Russian Olympiad ( Novosibirsk , 2008);
• XLIII All-Russian Olympiad ( Zhukovsky , Moscow Region, 2009);
• XLIV All-Russian Olympiad ( Belgorod , 2010);
• XLV All-Russian Olympiad ( Orenburg , 2011).
• XLVI All-Russian Olympiad ( Saransk , 2012).
• XLVII All-Russian Olympiad ( Vladivostok , 2013).
• XLVIII All-Russian Olympiad ( St. Petersburg , 2014).
• XLIX All-Russian Olympiad ( Ekaterinburg , 2015).
• L All-Russian Olympiad ( Sochi , 2016).
• LI All-Russian Olympiad ( Kazan , 2017).
• LII All-Russian Olympiad ( Tyumen , 2018).
• LIII All-Russian Olympiad ( Tomsk , 2019).

School and municipal stages

The Olympiad begins with the school stage in 1 quarter. The task of the school stage usually contains 5 theoretical problems and is developed by the municipal subject-methodological committee. The school stage of the Olympiad is usually checked by school teachers. This is followed by the municipal stage, to which participants who score the required number of points at the school stage are invited. The set of tasks for the municipal stage also contains 5 theoretical problems, but 1 experimental problem is allowed ^{[1] [2]} .

Regional Stage

The municipal stage is followed by the regional stage, to which schoolchildren from all over the region are invited, having scored the required number of points at the municipal stage. Tasks for the regional stage are already being drawn up by the Central Subject-Methodical Committee (CPMK) in physics, and they are the same for the whole country. The regional stage takes place in 2 rounds: a theoretical tour and an experimental tour (if an experiment is a rarity for the municipal stage, the experiment is always present at the regional stage). The difference between the tours is exactly 2 days, the first is a theoretical tour that contains exactly 5 tasks and lasts 5 hours (until 2010, 9 classes had 4 problems), and after 2 days an experimental tour is held that contains exactly 2 practical tasks and lasts 5 hours: 2 hours and 20 minutes per task, as well as 20 minutes for a break to change equipment. Then follows the verification of the Olympics. The Olympiad is checked by the regional jury according to the unified criteria developed at the CPMK and can last less than a day or a week. After checking the olympiad, an appeal must be made on which the student can disagree with the grade set and prove that the grade given does not fully meet the assessment criteria, after which the grade set is adjusted and entered in the final protocol. The regional stage of the VOSH in physics is held in the second half of January ^[3] .

Final Stage

The Olympiad annually ends with a final stage. In mid-February, the CPMC gets access to the protocols of the regional stage of all regions, after which it determines the passing points for the final stage and announces them in late February - early March.

Passing points for the final stage of the high school system in physics:

The final stage is usually held in the first half of April at six days. The opening day of the Olympics is held. From the second to the fourth days, experimental and then theoretical tours are held, containing the same number of tasks as at the regional stage. On the fifth day, an appeal is held and the winners and prize-winners of the Olympiad are determined. The closing day of the Olympiad is closing and rewarding. It is worth noting that the winners and winners of the final stage are invited next year to the final stage, regardless of the results of the regional stage. The same is true for the regional and municipal stages - winners and prize-winners of the respective stages are invited to them next year without selection.

Since 2000, for students in grades 7 and 8, an analogue of the regional stage of the school has been held - the Olympiad in Physics named after J. C. Maxwell , the tasks for which are also the CPMC in Physics. Since April 2016, the final stage of this Olympiad has been held at the Sirius Educational Center. The Olympiad is preceded by an educational program in which students of the 7th and 8th grades participating in the final stage of the Olympiad get acquainted with the intricacies of olympiad physics: design culture, experimental theory, behavior during the olympiad, and various approaches to solving complex problems. The only differences between this Olympiad and the VSSh are that in the theoretical round 4 tasks are given (respectively, the tour lasts 4 hours), and for one experimental task a maximum of 10 points is set, while in the VSS the maximum score is 15 ^{[4] [ 5]} .

• All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren
• International Physical Olympiad for schoolchildren

• Archive of tasks 2000-2008 on the site 4ipho.ru
• Archive of tasks of 2009-2018 on the site 4ipho.ru
• Assignments of school olympiads in physics of past years. Different regions of Russia, various levels
• Archive of tasks of school olympiads in physics at the district and city (regional) levels, St. Petersburg
• The site of the All-Russian Olympiad of students in physics. History

• About school physical Olympiads in Russia. Podlesny D.V.
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