Alexey Zhirukhin
Arctic Ambassador
68°58'00"N • 33°05'00"E
90°00'00"N
Icebreaker of knowledge 2026
About the competition
Icebreaker of Knowledge is an international competition offering winners a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join an expedition to the North Pole and explore Russia's nuclear technologies
Participants
Students aged 14 to 16 from 22 countries around the world
Timeline
5 May – 15 June
The competition takes place in three stages
1 August – 1 September
North Pole expedition (10 days in duration)
* Application deadline: 3 June
LIST OF
PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES
Armenia
China
Bangladesh
Kyrgyzstan
Belarus
Mongolia
Bolivia
Myanmar
Brazil
Namibia
Hungary
Rwanda
Vietnam
Serbia
Egypt
Tanzania
India
Türkiye
Indonesia
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
South Africa
Want to go on
an expedition to the
North pole?
05.05 - 03.06
Stage 1:
quiz
Put your knowledge to the test by answering 30 questions
Open to all participants
18.05 - 03.06
Stage 2:
webinars
Learn from expert-led lectures and complete the tasks
Open to all participants, who have completed Stage 1
05.06 - 15.06
Stage 3:
video presentation
Create a compelling video presentation answering a question
Open to the top 10 participants from each country, based on the results of Stages 1 and 2
June
Winners announced
1 representative from each country
Brought to you by
Jury
Kuzmitskii Dmitrii
Second officer of nuclear-powered vessels, nuclear icebreaker «Taimyr», FSUE Atomflot
Makarov Alexander
Director of Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI)
Fadeeva Maria
Head of the Communications Department at the Center for International Cooperation of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation
Chanto Khoeun
Russian Nuclear Education Ambassador, 4th-year Bachelor's student at the OINPE NRNU MEPhI
Chermoshentsev Dmitry
Scientific Group Leader in Rosatom Quantum Technologies, Principal Investigator in Russian Quantum Center
