UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 5, 2016. Armata, a team of high school students from Nizhniy Tagil sponsored by Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation, performed successfully at the international competition Planet’s Erudite 2016, the company press service reports.

Six ninth-graders from Physics & Mathematics Lyceum 39 represented the city of Nizhniy Tagil at the competition in Moscow. There were also over a hundred students from places all over Russia (ranging from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka) as well as from Byelorussia, Tajikistan, and Estonia. Vadim Kaigorodov answered correctly the largest number of questions in an all-school-subjects test in the shortest time period (forty questions in nineteen minutes), scored 41 points, and won the first prize. He also came third in the Logical Problems & Puzzles category. The rest of the Nizhniy Tagil team also won prizes and were all among the top ten performers.

Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant supports the students as part of its corporate social responsibility strategy and allocates some funds for local schools’ educational programs every year.