The best of the best

applications from developers in&nbsp;70 countries

were received last year. Yandex Cup is a&nbsp;chance to test yourself and go head-to-head against the best programmers from all over the world.

16,000+

open to developers of&nbsp;all levels

For the first time, juniors&shy;_*_ and Yandex employees will participate in&nbsp;the championship, competing separately for the title of&nbsp;company champion.

Junior to&nbsp;Expert

for the title of&nbsp;absolute champion

Track winners will compete against the victorious juniors and Yandex employees&shy;_*_.

Gold Final

Registration

Prizes

Compete for a&nbsp;chance to&nbsp;win cash&nbsp;prizes.

Rounds

You may compete in&nbsp;several categories. The top participants will go&nbsp;to&nbsp;the semi-finals&shy;_*_

Qualifying

Choose only one category. The top 20&nbsp;participants in&nbsp;each will advance to&nbsp;the finals&shy;_*_

Semi-finals

The Yandex Cup 2024 finals and award ceremony in&nbsp;Tashkent. Additionally, the&nbsp;Gold Final will feature the&nbsp;winners of&nbsp;each category&shy;_**_ competing for&nbsp;the&nbsp;title of&nbsp;The&nbsp;Best Developer

Finals

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Open online championship for developers registration

Solving art

Developers are a&nbsp;new breed of&nbsp;artists. They&nbsp;bring meaning to&nbsp;life, form our own rules and laws, manifest ideas, and create worlds and entire universes. While traditional artists work with words, paint, and sound, they&nbsp;create a&nbsp;new reality using code.

in&nbsp;today&rsquo;s biggest development trends

6 tracks

at&nbsp;the crossroads of&nbsp;technology and modern art

100+ tasks

In-person final event

Highlights

For the first time in&nbsp;a&nbsp;long while, the championship finals were held in&nbsp;person. Location: Almaty.

Open championship for&nbsp;developers

Finals stream

Watch the Yandex Cup 2023 Finals stream and see how masterpieces are made. Enjoy highlights from the competition, discussions of&nbsp;developer topics, and the IT&nbsp;Career Recipe culinary show.

At&nbsp;the  
**crossroads**  
of&nbsp;ancient  
_cultures_

This year, Yandex invites the best developers, engineers, and analysts to&nbsp;Tashkent.

The task? To&nbsp;find solutions to&nbsp;problems that once challenged past civilizations.

What&rsquo;s happening  
at&nbsp;the finals

Legends of&nbsp;international Olympiads will gather at&nbsp;the Yandex Cup finals. They&rsquo;ll join the stream, speak with finalists, and inspire developers to&nbsp;achieve victory.

Competitive programming stars

We&rsquo;re holding the finals in&nbsp;Tashkent, a&nbsp;city where different civilizations have intersected for centuries. Participants can look forward to&nbsp;guided tours, local cuisine, comfortable accommodation, and&nbsp;gifts.

Welcome  
to&nbsp;Tashkent

In&nbsp;a&nbsp;Yandex Cup first, Yandex employees and junior programmers will have their own championship. In&nbsp;the Gold finals, stream winners will compete for the title of&nbsp;absolute champion in&nbsp;each category.

Gold finals

Yandex Cup 2024

Programming __championship__ finals

Program

Main stream

Algorithm

Machine Learning

December 3

December 4

The Sumerians and the Aztecs. Ancient Egypt and the Han Dynasty. The Gupta Empire and the Assyrians. Different civilizations have set the course of&nbsp;human development since time immemorial.

Now, the next civilization to&nbsp;catapult the world into the future is&nbsp;the...

### Digital Civilization

&mdash;&nbsp;a&nbsp;united community of&nbsp;developers, analysts, and engineers.

We&nbsp;live in&nbsp;different countries and speak and write code in&nbsp;different languages, but we&nbsp;share a&nbsp;common culture and a&nbsp;drive to&nbsp;solve the problems facing all of&nbsp;humanity.

**Streaming**

Competitions, task analysis, and discussions

Yandex has been supporting competitive programming for many years, organizing competitions, training camps, and schools.

Yandex developers, along with programming Olympiad participants, help create the tasks for&nbsp;this category.

Java

Python

Kotlin

С/C++

Rust

- 1&nbsp;route optimization challenge for Yandex Go scooters relocation based on historical data; 
- 7&nbsp;days to &nbsp;solve

Marathon

- 6&nbsp;algorithmic challenges; 
- 120 minutes to&nbsp;solve. You can start any&nbsp;day of&nbsp;the&nbsp;qualification.

Sprint

You may choose only one category. Winners will receive cash prizes.

Qualification will take place from November&nbsp;1&nbsp;to&nbsp;November&nbsp;7 with&nbsp;two options&nbsp;to&nbsp;choose from:&nbsp;Marathon or&nbsp;Sprint. The top participants in&nbsp;each will move&nbsp;on&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;final.

Team

Alexander Minakov

Kiryll Shyrma

Alexander Novozhilov

Abdikozha Abdikalykov

Maxim Andryushin

Danil Shabanov

Nikita Sokolov

Evgeny Anzin

2024

Mustafin Denis

He Andrew

Romashov Fedor

Hosaka Yui

Benjamin Qi

__Employees:__

Gorokhovskii Maksim

Asanau Andrei

Komendantian Artem

__Juniors:__

Losev Petr

Abdullin Gimran

Kravchenko Maksim

2023

Sun Kevin

Sardarbekov Batyr

Takahashi Ryo

2022

Korotkevich Gennady

Nagibin Vsevolod

Andrew Polizzotto

Fan Jhao Wei

Student category winner: Nagibin Vsevolod

2021

Sun Kevin (ksun48)

Radecki Mateusz (Radewoosh)

Danilyuk Alexey (Um_nik)

Putilin Mikhail (mikle98)

Rakhmatullin Ramazan

2020

Alexey Danilyuk (Um_nik)

Vladimir Romanov

2018

Gennady Korotkevich (tourist)

Mikhail Ipatov (LHiC)

2017

Nikola Jokic (W4yneb0t)

Makoto Soejima (rng.58)

2016

Egor Kulikov (Egor)

2015

Petr Mitrichev (Petr)

Evgeny Kapun (eatmore)

2014

Yui Hosaka (hos.lyric)

Qinshi WANG (s-quark)

2013

Shi Bixun (peter50216)

Try your hand at&nbsp;solving tasks from last years&rsquo; championships

This track is&nbsp;only available in&nbsp;Russian

Yandex services accumulate vast amounts of&nbsp;data. By&nbsp;analyzing this data, we&nbsp;continuously improve our products and make them more user-friendly.

Our analysts use mathematics, statistics, probability theory, and cutting-edge technology, including neural networks, CatBoost, kNN search, clustering algorithms, and anomaly detection.

In&nbsp;this category, we&nbsp;showcase the types of&nbsp;problems our data science specialists solve.

This track

Analytics

Formulating and&nbsp;validating hypotheses

Implementation of&nbsp;algorithmic solutions

Roman Vasiliev

Dmitrii Volkov

Arina Pavlova

Vladislav Alchikov

Egor Gulbasov

Lev Sakharov

Yandex&nbsp;Cup Archive

Front-end

Back-end

Mobile Development

At&nbsp;Yandex, backend developers work on&nbsp;designing high-load services, optimizing performance, processing data, creating product logic, and&nbsp;implementing user scenarios.

The&nbsp;backend development track showcases the&nbsp;variety of&nbsp;problems that we&nbsp;solve.

The best  
 of the best

For the first time, juniors and Yandex employees will participate in&nbsp;the championship, competing separately for the title of&nbsp;company champion.

Track winners will compete against the victorious Yandex employees.

Backend development

Sergey Fedoseenkov

Andrey Bystrov

Andrey Khalyavin

Vadim Kleba

Kirill Neevin

Mikhail Prokhorov

Ruslan Sabirov

Stepan Didurenko

Error

Yandex holds high standards for interface development: we&nbsp;aim to&nbsp;get things right from the&nbsp;start.

In&nbsp;large teams, collaborative coding is&nbsp;highly valued, with code reviews, pair programming, shared standards, libraries, and code reuse being essential practices. We&rsquo;ve created tasks that are&nbsp;perfect for those who love coding without the&nbsp;hassle of&nbsp;routine processes.

Frontend development

JavaScript

Proficiency in&nbsp;functional and&nbsp;reactive programming

Understanding of&nbsp;TypeScript's type system

Working with events and asynchronous programming

Sergey Berezhnoy

Roman Barlos

Kirill Ivakhnin

Pavel Piliak

Nikita Sandakov

Vladimir Ulyanov

Boris Yuzhakov

Anna Motoshkina

Olzhas Seitmagambet

&nbsp;&nbsp;Have any questions?  
Contact us: [competitions@yandex-team.ru](mailto:competitions@yandex-team.ru)

_16,000,000 RUB_  
prize fund

Dozens of&nbsp;countries  
and thousands  
of&nbsp;participants

140 finalists

_56 prize places_

In&#8209;person finals

ML&nbsp;Challenge until&nbsp;November&nbsp;4

International programming championship

Front-End

Back-End

Mobile  
Development

Machine  
Learning

Juniors

Solving Art

Leave your contacts and we will notify you about the&nbsp;start of the&nbsp;new season

Yandex Cup 2020 is over

For the first time, students ages 14&ndash;18 can participate in&nbsp;the Yandex Cup. Solve problems created by&nbsp;Yandex employees and experienced Olympiad participants for a&nbsp;chance to&nbsp;win prizes.

Virtual start at&nbsp;any time during the week.&nbsp;120 minutes for tasks. Qualification criteria for the semi-finals will be&nbsp;published by&nbsp;October 23&nbsp;at the latest

Duration: 120&nbsp;minutes. Start time: 12:00 Moscow time (UTC+3)

Standard 5-hour contest with scoring based on&nbsp;test results

Ayuka Erdneev

Kiryl Shyrma

Ainur Ibatov

Roman Zhiganov

Alina Belodedova

Aleksey Tolstikov

Alexey Mikhnenko

At&nbsp;Yandex, we&nbsp;train&nbsp;ML models on&nbsp;a&nbsp;wide range of&nbsp;data, from small tabular datasets to&nbsp;multi-terabyte sets of&nbsp;labeled videos. For the Yandex Cup, we&nbsp;selected the most interesting challenges our engineers encounter:

1) Self-Driving Cars: Predicting the&nbsp;movement of&nbsp;a&nbsp;self-driving car
2) Music Information Retrieval: Identifying cover versions of&nbsp;music tracks

At&nbsp;Yandex, we&nbsp;train&nbsp;ML models on&nbsp;a&nbsp;wide range of&nbsp;data, from small tabular datasets to&nbsp;multi-terabyte sets of&nbsp;labeled videos. For the Yandex Cup, we&nbsp;selected the most interesting challenges our engineers encounter.

Three tracks:

 1. __Recommender systems.__ Genre prediction based on&nbsp;a&nbsp;track&rsquo;s audio features (Yandex Music)  
 2. __Nowcasting.__ Short-term precipitation intensity forecast (Yandex Weather)  
 3. __Neuroswipe__ for&nbsp;keyboards. Word recognition from drawn curves on&nbsp;a&nbsp;smartphone screen (Yandex Keyboard)

Open championship for developers

Solving art

Finals stream

Highlights