ASU Team Wins Silver at the 17th Festival of Culture and Sports of the Peoples of Southern Russia

The Adyghe State University (ASU) team, representing the Republic of Adygea in the competitive programming tournament at the 17th Festival of Culture and Sports of the Peoples of Southern Russia, took second place. Held at Dagestan State Technical University in Makhachkala, the tournament brought together 14 teams.

The ASU team comprised students Vladislav Nesterov and Vladimir Verdenko, along with Aleksandr Kuznetsov, a lecturer and researcher at the university’s Laboratory of Mathematical Methods in Precision Agriculture and Biotechnology.

The festival took place in Dagestan from October 30 to November 1 and was held in conjunction with the Year of Unity of the Peoples of Russia. It was organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation, and the Government of the Republic of Dagestan. Approximately 900 people from 16 regions of southern Russia took part.

The festival’s sports program featured ten disciplines: arm wrestling, tug-of-war, sambo, archery, mini-football, judo, volleyball, kettlebell lifting, phygital basketball, and sports programming. The cultural program was held in Kaspiysk and Makhachkala and featured leading performance groups from across southern Russia, including Adygea’s State Folk Song Ensemble “Islamey.”