July 5, 2013. Ural Federal University students came 16th in the ACM-ICPC World Computer Programming Championship in Saint Petersburg. The team of students from Saint Petersburg National University of Information Technologies, Mechanics & Optics won, Yekaterinburg’s official website states.

119 teams from 36 different countries took part in the final rounds of the championship. Russia put forward 15 teams. The UFU was represented by students Olga Soboleva, Yegor Shchelkonogov, Oleg Dolgorukov, and their coach, a post-graduate student from UFU Algebra & Discrete Mathematics Department Denis Dublenykh.

On Wednesday, July 3, ACM-ICPC Executive Director William Poacher officially handed the local control over the championship over to UFU Vice Rector Dmitri Bugrov when the event is held in Yekaterinburg next year.

The contest will take place in Yekaterinburg on June 22-26, 2014 on premises such as Uralochka Sports Palace, Cosmos Movie Theater, and Ural Federal University campus facilities.

Head of Yekaterinburg Administration Alexander Yakob says the Urals’ capital is already prepared to host this student championship.