9m1 student Olesya Gorashko was the winner and her classmate Polina Savchenko a runner-up at the 2016-2017 Interregional Eurasian Linguistic Olympiad. Participants at the interregional stage included 180 students from Moscow, Barnaul, Vladivostok, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Perm, Pyatigorsk, Chelyabinsk and Chita.