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

Registration

Prizes

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

Rounds

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

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)

_12,000,000 RUB_  
prize fund

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

180 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

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

International programming championship

Machine Learning

Machine learning plays a key role in the development and improvement of Yandex services, enabling the provision of new services and opportunities for users:

* Search and information processing. ML algorithms analyze users' queries and the content of web pages, and use natural language processing (NLP) to deliver the most relevant results.
* Recommendation systems. They analyze users' preferences and offer personalized recommendations — music, movies, books, and other content on Yandex services.
* Autonomous technologies. ML models process data from sensors and cameras, help predict vehicle movement, recognize objects on the road, and make decisions in complex situations. In addition, they build optimal routes, taking into account traffic, weather conditions, and other factors.
* Image and video processing. This includes recognizing objects, faces, and other elements.
* Content moderation. Automatic detection and removal of inappropriate materials.
* Machine translation. ML technologies provide high-quality translation of text and speech, taking into account the context and features of languages.
* Speech synthesis and recognition. Development of voice assistants, recognition of user commands and queries.

Based on our expertise, we form competition tracks and prepare tasks for qualification. The program will be published later.

Details of YANDEX CUP ML&nbsp;CHALLENGE  
will be available later

Date

Petr Ermakov

Maksim Sporyshev

Sergei Fironov

Kirill Fedyanin

Competition Regulations

Rules

Yandex Cup

Yandex

ya-form-10019312

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_

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

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 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.

Analytics

Formulating and&nbsp;validating hypotheses

Implementation of&nbsp;algorithmic solutions

Roman Vasiliev

Lev Sakharov

Andrei Shevtsov

Mikhail Ivanov

Sergey Bulatitskiy

Nikita Tiulenev

Dmitry Kizyakov

Alena Poluboiarinova

Sait Sharipov

Danila Liapin

Anton Bazunov

Daniil Stupin

Evgenii Tugov

Ekaterina Fedorenko

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

Backend development

Alexander Kuvaev

Vadim Kleba

Ruslan Sabirov

Andrey Khalyavin

Kirill Neevin

Anvar Umarov

Iurii Tikhonov

Konstantin Toropin

Kiryl Shyrma

Vitaly Moskovkin

Ilnar Sabirzyanov

Evgeniy Tikhonov

Alexey Bogolyubskiy

Timur Muratshin

Pavel Podkolzin

Viktor Halkevich

Gleb Rylov

Ilia Grigorev

Maksim Diakov

Aleksei Piskunov

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.

Backend