The best of the best

applications from developers in&nbsp;90 countries

submitted for Yandex Cup 2024. Yandex Cup is&nbsp;a&nbsp;chance to&nbsp;test yourself and&nbsp;go head-to-head against the&nbsp;best programmers from all over the&nbsp;world

20,000+

open to developers of&nbsp;all levels

Yandex Cup will feature juniors&shy;_*_ and Yandex employees, who will compete separately for&nbsp;the&nbsp;title of&nbsp;company champion

Junior to&nbsp;Expert

for qualification winners

Participants will get an&nbsp;eventful program, networking with the&nbsp;world&rsquo;s top developers, and a&nbsp;chance to&nbsp;fight for the&nbsp;prize fund

Finals in&nbsp;Istanbul

ML&nbsp;Challenge&nbsp;Registration

Prizes

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

Rounds 2025

Visit the platform and&nbsp;explore challenges from&nbsp;previous years&shy;_*_

Trial Round

Choose one track. Top 20&nbsp;participants will advance to&nbsp;the&nbsp;finals&shy;_**_

Qualifications

In&#8209;person Yandex Cup 2025 finals and&nbsp;award ceremony in&nbsp;Istanbul

Finals

Compete for a&nbsp;chance to&nbsp;win cash&nbsp;prizes&shy;_*_

Visit the platform and&nbsp;explore challenges from&nbsp;previous years

Choose one track. Top 20&nbsp;participants will advance to&nbsp;the&nbsp;finals

You can start solve tasks before the&nbsp;end&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;stage

Qualification

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.

Algorithm

Java

Python

Kotlin

С/C++

Rust

Team

Alexander Minakov

Kiryll Shyrma

Alexander Novozhilov

Abdikozha Abdikalykov

Nikita Sokolov

Evgeny Anzin

Igor Koshkarev

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

_145,000 USD_  
prize fund

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

200 finalists

International participants can compete in&nbsp;Algorithm and Machine Learning categories. Backend, frontend, mobile development, and analytics categories are available for&nbsp;local participants

6 categories

Among participants  
of&nbsp;six categories

_42 prize places_

[In&#8209;person finals](/cup/2025)

WE&rsquo;LL OPEN UP&nbsp;REGISTRATION FOR&nbsp;YANDEX&nbsp;CUP&nbsp;2026 IN&nbsp;SEPTEMBER

for&nbsp;the&nbsp;ML&nbsp;Challenge  
until&nbsp;November&nbsp;5

International programming championship

Machine Learning

At&nbsp;Yandex, we&nbsp;train&nbsp;ML models on&nbsp;a&nbsp;wide variety of&nbsp;data: from small datasets in&nbsp;spreadsheets to&nbsp;multi&#8209;terabyte sets of&nbsp;labeled videos.  
For&nbsp;the&nbsp;championship, we&nbsp;have selected the most interesting tasks that our engineers face:  
1. Autonomous Driving camera sensor image generation 
2. STEM problem illustrations Q&amp;A with VLMs 
3. Large Language Models hallucinations robustness

Registration

Machine learning category

Petr Ermakov

Maksim Sporyshev

Sergei Fironov

Kirill Fedyanin

Competition Regulations

Rules

Yandex Cup

Yandex

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_

In&nbsp;2024, Yandex invited the top developers, engineers, and analysts to&nbsp;Tashkent.

They had to&nbsp;find solutions to&nbsp;problems that once faced ancient civilizations.

2024 Finals  
Recap

Legends of&nbsp;international Olympiads gathered at&nbsp;the Yandex Cup finals to&nbsp;join the competition, live streams, discussions with finalists, inspiring developers to&nbsp;strive for victory.

Competitive programming stars

We&nbsp;held the finals in&nbsp;Tashkent, a&nbsp;city where different civilizations have intersected for centuries. Participants enjoyed guided tours, local cuisine, and a&nbsp;warm welcome.

Welcome  
to&nbsp;Tashkent

For the first time, the championship featured Yandex employees and junior developers. In&nbsp;the Gold finals, stream winners competed for the title of&nbsp;absolute champion in&nbsp;each track.

Gold finals

Yandex Cup 2024

Programming __championship__ finals

Program

Main stream

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

{CODE&shy;__】__&shy;CRAFT

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

{At the Finals/

Stroll through narrow streets, pet Istanbul&rsquo;s famous cats, taste Turkish sweets, and discover the&nbsp;city&rsquo;s history through guided tours and walks

Immerse yourself in&nbsp;the atmosphere of&nbsp;old Istanbul&rsquo;s workshops and feel like true masters of&nbsp;craft in&nbsp;themed creative zones

Meet legends of&nbsp;international programming competitions and find inspiration for your own victory&mdash;the stars of&nbsp;competitive coding will gather in&nbsp;Istanbul

Digital gallery

Metalwork, mosaic, calligraphy. Yandex Cup finalists tried their hand at&nbsp;traditional crafts. Each unique piece has been digitized and is&nbsp;now part of&nbsp;our digital gallery, preserving our finalists&rsquo; stories and creativity

Yandex Cup 2025

Programming  
championship finals

Livestream Program __(December&nbsp;6)__

December 6

Coding is the new craft

Istanbul&mdash;a city of&nbsp;craftsmanship and timeless traditions. For&nbsp;centuries, artisans here have perfected the art of&nbsp;metalwork, calligraphy, weaving, and&nbsp;mosaic. Today, that ancient pursuit of&nbsp;perfection lives on&nbsp;in&nbsp;code. Developers, like the artisans of&nbsp;the past, weave together precision, logic, and beauty to&nbsp;create not merely systems and interfaces, but digital masterpieces.

When anyone can code, genuine skill becomes valued. Codecraft celebrates those who write code the way art was once made&nbsp;&mdash; by&nbsp;hand, with care, patience, and a&nbsp;passion for perfection.

The Yandex Cup Final will bring together the best developers, engineers, and analysts&mdash;once again turning Istanbul into a&nbsp;meeting place for masters of&nbsp;craft, now with digital tools in&nbsp;hand.

Streaming

Categories(6)

Like a&nbsp;blacksmith who forges the core elements with their tools, a&nbsp;backend developer builds the&nbsp;foundation from servers and algorithms

Backend

Like a&nbsp;calligrapher, a&nbsp;frontend developer blends art and engineering into digital harmony of&nbsp;lines and meaning

Frontend

A&nbsp;mobile developer works like a&nbsp;jeweler&mdash;transforming complex systems into elegant, palm-sized creations

Mobile Development

A&nbsp;weaver interlaces threads into a&nbsp;single pattern. The ML&nbsp;refines the process&mdash;weaving data into a&nbsp;model that learns

Like a&nbsp;sculptor, an&nbsp;analyst carves away excess data until a&nbsp;clear form emerges&mdash;precise insights that shape decisions

Analytics

A&nbsp;mosaic artist has only so&nbsp;many tiles. Likewise, an&nbsp;algorithmist seeks elegance&mdash;the perfect solution using minimal steps, memory, and&nbsp;time

2025

Kevin Sun

Benjamin Qi

Riku Kawasaki

Andrew He

Chung-Chun Huang

Fedor Romashov

__Employees:__

Maksim Gorokhovskii

Aleksei Shnirelman

Nikita Golikov

__Juniors:__

Sergey Mukhanov

Maksim Kravchenko

Vladislav Zhiganov

Matvei Makarov

2024

Mustafin Denis

He Andrew

Romashov Fedor

Hosaka Yui

Gorokhovskii Maksim

Asanau Andrei

Komendantian Artem

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 category 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.

Formulating and&nbsp;validating hypotheses

Implementation of&nbsp;algorithmic solutions

Roman Vasiliev

Lev Sakharov

Mikhail Ivanov

Sergey Bulatitskiy

Nikita Tiulenev

Anton Bazunov

Daniil Stupin

Evgenii Tugov

Ekaterina Anashkina

Yandex&nbsp;Cup Archive

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 category showcases the&nbsp;variety of&nbsp;problems that we&nbsp;solve.