13 April 2016
Awarding Ceremony of Olympiad on Russian Language among International Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students

April 1, 2016 at 16:00 the awarding ceremony of the Olympiad on the Russian language among international undergraduate and postgraduate students was held in the Great Hall Meeting Room of the Executive Committee of Kazan. The Olympiad had been held in Leo Tolstoy Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication on 12 and 19 March, 2016.

The Olympiad was organized and held by the academic staff of the department of Russian as a foreign language with the assistance of the Committee on Children and Youth Affairs of Kazan Executive Committee and the Association of International Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students of Kazan.

The guest of honor for awarding prizes to the winners of the oral and written rounds, as well as the absolute winners of the contest, was Acting Chairman of the Committee on Children and Youth Affairs of Kazan Irina Andreevna Bochkova. Words of salutation were said by President of the Association of International Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students of Kazan Alia Agboola Alege, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Children and Youth Affairs of Kazan Airat Shamilevich Faizov, Head of Department of Russian as a Foreign Language (KFU), Doctor of Philology, Professor Tatiana Gennadievna Bochina, director of the Center for work with international students of Kazan State Power Engineering University Regina Askhatovna Arslanova, a student of Kazan National Research Technological University Nikolaj Milicevic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and a student of Kazan State Power Engineering University Akuhva Vater (Federal Republic of Nigeria), who recited a poem "About Kazan" by a Kazan author Aelita Aleksandrovna Solovieva.

The absolute winners of the Olympiad on the Russian language among international undergraduate and postgraduate students are

In the category “1 and 2 year students from countries of the far abroad”:

Third Place Diploma: Mohammad Rafique Vasik (Islamic Republic of Afghanistan), Kazan State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering;

Second Place Diploma: Kiril Todoroski (Republic of Macedonia), Bauman Kazan State Academy of Veterinary Medicine;

First Place Diploma: – Chang Shong Hai (Socialist Republic of Vietnam), Kazan National Research Technological University

 

In the category “1 and 2 year students from countries of the near abroad”:

Third Place Diploma: – Jahongir Abdullaev (Uzbekistan), Kazan National Research Technological University;

Second Place Diploma: – Gulchekhra Bahadirova (Uzbekistan), Kazan State Medical University;

First Place Diploma: – Nazar Khudaykulov (Turkmenistan), Kazan State Architectural University 

 

In the category “3 year students from countries of the near and far abroad”:

Third Place Diploma: – Yu Xiang (People's Republic of China), Kazan (Volga region) Federal University;

Second Place Diploma: – Zhu Wen Tao (People's Republic of China), Kazan (Volga region) Federal University;

First Place Diploma: – Wang Shichzhan (People's Republic of China), Kazan (Volga region) Federal University. – Alavode Oluvadakhunsi (Federal Republic of Nigeria), Kazan National Research Technological University.

 

Grand prix:

Nikolaj Milicevic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Kazan National Research Technological University;

– Mukhambet Zhasyn Serikbayevich (Republic of Kazakhstan), Volga Region State Academy of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism.

 All participants of the Olympiad on the Russian language among international graduate and postgraduate students were awarded certificates of participation.

More than 10 years, the Olympiad has been helping students to check their level of language proficiency, as well as meet other students from different countries. The representatives of the Committee on Youth Affairs and the Association of International Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students expressed special gratitude to Department of Russian as a Foreign Language (Kazan Federal University).