Winners and prize-winners of the XII Junior Mathematics Tournament announced

On 30 November 2025, with the blessing of Metropolitan Alexander of Astana and Kazakhstan, the XII intellectual tournament “Kings of Mathematics” was held at the parish in honour of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God in the settlement of Chemolgan.

The event, organised by the Commission for Educational Service of the Astana Diocese, brought together pupils of Sunday schools from eight parishes of the Almaty Diocese.

Before the competition began, Yu.F. Sabirova, lecturer of the Department of Mathematical and Computer Modelling at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, spoke to the children about artificial intelligence (AI) — a technology enabling machines to demonstrate human-like abilities such as learning, reasoning and decision-making. AI systems are used to perform a wide range of tasks in various fields, for example in data analysis, speech and image recognition, process automation, as well as in such areas as medicine, manufacturing and finance.

The participants of the olympiad were then offered problems from the Moscow school stage of the All-Russian School Olympiad in Mathematics for 2025.

Based on the results of the evaluation, the winners of the tournament were recognised as follows:

Preschool subgroup — Grade 1 pupils

First place: Efrosinya Muraeva (Church of the Apostle John the Theologian, Almaty)

Second place: Alexandra Rettikh (Church of Prince Vladimir, Almaty)

Subgroup Grades 2–3

First place: Egor Fattakhov (Church of Christ the Saviour, Almaty)

Second place: Varvara Lukashova (Iveron Church, Burundai), Anastasia Koshkina (Church of Blessed Xenia of Petersburg, Konaev)

Third place: Timofey Gerasimov (Church of the Apostle John the Theologian, Almaty)

Subgroup Grades 4–5

First place: Darya Shnaider (Church of Blessed Xenia of Petersburg, Konaev), Eva Doroshkevich (Church of Christ the Saviour, Almaty), Darya Mishchenko (Church of the Apostle John the Theologian, Almaty), Tatyana Bocharova (Church of the Apostle John the Theologian, Almaty)

Second place: Alexander Domkovsky (Church of the Great-Martyr Demetrius of Thessaloniki, Baiserke), Ekaterina Glushchenko (Church of St Seraphim of Sarov, Chapaevo)

Third place: Zakhar Raspopin (Church of the Apostle John the Theologian, Almaty), Nikita Pritula (Church of the Great-Martyr Demetrius of Thessaloniki, Baiserke), Anastasia Kornienko (Church of Christ the Saviour, Almaty)

Subgroup Grades 6–7

First place: Vasilisa Muraeva (Church of the Apostle John the Theologian, Almaty), Elina Khvan (Church of Prince Vladimir, Almaty), Ksenia Rettikh (Church of Prince Vladimir, Almaty)

Second place: Yaroslav Bityukov (Church of St Vladimir, Chemolgan), Nikita Mozzhukhin (Church of St Seraphim of Sarov, Chapaevo), Andrey Lukashov (Iveron Church, Burundai), Rail Gazizov (Church of Prince Vladimir, Almaty)

Subgroup Grades 8–11

First place: Veronika Yarovaya (Church of Prince Vladimir, Almaty)

All participants received books and board games as gifts from the Almaty diocesan administration.