Fundamentals of Orthodox culture Olympiad. Anniversary X All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren on the “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture”
Started school tour XI All-Russian Olympiad “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture”, reports Patriarchia.ru.
The “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” Olympiad is annually included in the list of subject Olympiads for RSOS schoolchildren in the subjects “History” and “Theology”. Based on the results of the examination of materials from the first Olympiad, which was carried out by the All-Russian Council of Olympiads, the Orthodox Olympiad was assigned the second level. This is the only confessional Olympiad among subject Olympiads.
The Olympiad “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture: “Holy Rus', keep the Orthodox Faith!”” has been held since 2008 by the Orthodox St. Tikhon’s Humanitarian University. The event is held with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' with the support of the Synodal Department of Religious Education and Catechesis, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, the Russian Union of Rectors, the Russian Council of School Olympiads, and the Presidential Grants Fund.
Students of grades 4-11 of state, municipal and non-state educational organizations implementing general education programs, including educational organizations of the Russian Federation located outside its borders, can take part in the Olympiad on a voluntary basis.
The Olympiad is held in a set of subjects related to the study of the history and culture of Orthodoxy. Every year, more than 350 thousand participants from 10 thousand schools (every fifth school) in Russia, representing 80 regions, take part in it.
The school tour takes place in person on site. The teacher responsible for the school registers on the website http://opk.pravolimp.ru, submits an application, downloads assignments in his personal account and, after the school tour, posts the results on the website.
In 2018-2019 academic year tasks for the school tour Olympiad will be distributed for the following categories of students: 1) for students in grades 4-5, 2) for students in grades 6-7, 3) for students in grades 8-9, 4) for students in grades 10-11.
Students in grades 4 in the module “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” will be able to take part in the Municipal Tour along with students in grades 5-11 in accordance with the Olympiad schedule.
Students in grades 4-5 in the module “Secular Ethics” are invited to take two tours: a school (autumn) tour from September 2018 to January 2019 and a municipal (spring) tour in March 2019.
Topics of the Olympiad for the 2018-2019 academic year:
- “Speculation in stone”: stone church architecture of Ancient Rus'
The topic draws attention to the history of the appearance of temples and monasteries during the period of stone construction, their architecture, initiators and architects, the painting system, as well as memories of temples, reflection of the images and fate of these temples in painting and literature.
- "The Slavic world in the era of Saints Cyril and Methodius"
The topic allows you to delve into the mission of the holy brothers, better understand their feat, consider the fruits of the mission in Slavic countries - primarily in Bulgaria and Serbia, in which their works contributed to the final establishment of Christianity, see the cultural ties of Russia with other Slavic countries and the significance of the mission for the spread and the establishment of the Christian faith on Russian soil.
- "Youth: freedom and responsibility."
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On April 12, the federal round of the second All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren on the fundamentals of Orthodox culture is taking place at the Orthodox St. Tikhon’s Theological University.
Here are some of the questions and tasks of the Olympiad:
- This holiday originated in Russia back in the 17th century, but began to be solemnly celebrated only in the 20th century. Local cathedral 1917-1918 decided to celebrate it exactly one week after All Saints' Day(i.e. on the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost). In 1941, the beginning of the Great Patriotic War coincided with this holiday.
- In what year was the first metro line put into operation in the USSR, and the New Year tree was also allowed?
- The Psalter, a book written by King and Prophet David, begins with the words “ Blessed is the man who does not follow the counsel of the wicked..." What words does it end with?
- This pious girl married the Byzantine Emperor Theophilus, who was a convinced iconoclast. After the death of her husband, she had to manage an entire empire until her son Mikhail grew up. During her reign, a number of military victories were won, the state treasury was replenished, and most importantly, a church council was assembled, which restored the veneration of icons in the empire. A special holiday was established in memory of this event.
- Who is this saint and what is the name of the holiday?
- What does the word have in common? metamorphosis with the name of one of the twelve holidays?
- In the novel by F.M. Dostoevsky, Semyon Marmeladov, when meeting Rodion Raskolnikov, exclaims: “Behold the man!” Where did this phrase come from and who does it belong to?
- In parentheses, indicate the Orthodox holiday on the day of celebration of which the events related to the Great Patriotic War took place. Patriotic War(you only need to indicate the number under which the holiday is recorded).
9. Here is a fragment of the “Sermon on the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'”, compiled by the great ascetic of piety of the twentieth century, Archimandrite John (Krestyankin). April 11 marked the 100th anniversary of his birth. Which newly glorified saints are we talking about?
“Now, in the anniversary year, the Lord has given Russia new intercessors, filled with God’s grace. IN different time they lived and walked along different roads along the path of God to the Kingdom of Heaven, but their hearts burned so brightly with love for God that this light did not fade away in time, but reached us and now shines for us on our path to God...
Now, at the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, dedicated to the anniversary of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'... His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Pimen proclaimed: “It has pleased the Holy Spirit and us to number among the saints the saints of God:
The blessed Grand Duke of Moscow ________________________________ (1350-1389), who showed the feat of a righteous and pious life... who gave his soul for his friends (John 15:13). He defended the faith of Christ, founded many monasteries, built churches and gave charity to the poor.
Venerable ___________________________________ (1360-1st half. XVc.), faster and ascetic, famous icon painter, theologian, who perfectly expressed the dogma of the Triune God in his icon _______________________.
Rev. _________________________________ (1470-1556), locally revered Radonezh saint, wonderworker, ascetic monk and teacher of monastic life. As a spiritual teacher, he deepened the patristic tradition.
Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus' ____________________________ (1482-1563), who showed a feat of virtuous and fasting life, for which he was awarded the gift of clairvoyance and miracle-working. His church activities are marked by the fight against heresies, as well as the collection of spiritual treasures of the Russian Church.
Schema-Archimandrite ___________________(__________________________) (1722-1794). He revived the school of eldership in Rus'.
Blessed _________________________________________________(XVIII– beginningXIXc.) She carried the feats of love for her neighbors throughout her long-suffering life, received the love of God in the gift of clairvoyance and miracles, and human love, which has not faded for the second century.
Bishop _________________________ (_________________________) (1807-1867), an ascetic of piety, a teacher of Christian life and a spiritual writer.
Hieroschemamonk _____________________________________ (1812-1891) - an elder, shepherd and preacher, a worker of love for God through people.
Bishop ________________________________________________(1815-1894). He demonstrated the height and holiness of life, preserving Orthodox purity and divine enlightenment in his fruitful service to the Church.”
We will ask the Lord for blessings, and from all Russian saints - prayers for the entry into the second millennium, so that through their prayers the Orthodox faith in Rus' will not become impoverished in all its purity, so that neither we nor our descendants will forget God's commandments and covenants. And we will also thank the Lord for the millennium that has passed into eternity.
Our God, glory to You for everything and for everything forever and ever! Amen".
10. Describe the first photograph: what is captured on it, in what time interval could it have been taken? What connects these two photographs?
OLYMPIAD ON THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ORTHODOX CULTUREOLYMPIAD ON THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ORTHODOX CULTURE
Indicative topics for the next five years (2016–2021)
The main theme of each academic year is associated with the anniversary dates of the calendar year with which the academic year ends. The main theme coincides (in whole or in part) with the theme of the upcoming Christmas readings and is approved after the official announcement of the theme of the readings.
In addition to the main topic, each year’s assignments are related to a local topic that has a geographical feature. A geographically limited topic allows you to become more familiar with the history, persons, artistic and literary monuments of the selected region.
Topics for 2016/2017 were finalized on May 6, 2016.
Topics for Fall 2017 and beyond are approximate; Subsequently, it is possible for the Olympiad methodologists to make adjustments and additions.
2016/2017 academic year
MAIN THEME:
“Rus' is leaving”: Russian culture in the face of persecution
2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Local Council of the Russian Church, which restored the Patriarchate. The Council took place in 1917/1918, which provides special grounds for dedicating the 2017/2018 academic year, first of all, to the memory of this historical cathedral, its participants and contemporaries. Some of the participants in the Council were glorified as new martyrs and confessors. These are people raised during the Synodal period; their lives, cultural and intellectual values and worldviews are worth studying.
Anniversaries related to the topic:
Crash Russian Empire(February and October coups) – 2017
Restoration of the Patriarchate in the Russian Church – 2017
LOCAL TOPIC:
"Russian Presence in the Holy Land"
The theme is dedicated to the anniversaries of 2017:
200th anniversary of the birth of Archimandrite Antonin (Kapustin; 1817–1894) - the most famous head of the spiritual mission in Jerusalem, an outstanding pastor, Byzantine scholar, head of the Russian spiritual mission in Jerusalem, under whom its activities reached their greatest flourishing in the pre-revolutionary period.
170th anniversary of the founding of the Russian mission in Jerusalem (1847)
2017/2018 academic year
MAIN THEME:
"The feat of the last Romanovs"
The topic, first of all, is connected with the main – tragic – anniversary of 2018: the murder of the Royal Family and Grand Dukes, who became a symbol of Orthodox Russia, which was brutally dealt with by the new government. This page in the life of the last Romanovs and people associated with them is characterized by the words “passion-bearing” and “martyrdom.” But, in addition to attention to the last Christian feat they accomplished, the topic implies the study of the “feat of everyday life” - attention to those years of the life of the Royal Family that preceded the persecution, the study of the spiritual baggage and experience of social service with which the representatives of the royal house approached the era of persecution.
Anniversary:
in 2018 the 150th anniversary of the birth of St. imp. Nicholas II
2018 is the centenary of the death of the Royal Family, book. Elizabeth Feodorovna and other Grand Dukes
LOCAL TOPIC:
“Tsarist Crimea” (Crimea under the Romanovs)
Crimea was the favorite place of residence of the last Royal family. It was there that they wanted to spend the rest of their days after the overthrow of the monarchy. The rich and, as usual, difficult history of the peninsula was decorated with this deep affection of the royal house. The topic allows us to take an absentee trip to the Tsarist Crimea and try to understand what exactly aroused the royal sympathies and what Crimea itself received as a legacy from the kings who loved it.
2018/2019 academic year
MAIN THEME:
“Speculation in stone”: stone church architecture of Ancient Rus'
The topic draws attention to the history of the appearance of temples and monasteries during the period of stone construction, their architecture, initiators and architects, the painting system, as well as memories of temples, reflection of the images and fate of these temples in painting and literature.
Anniversaries:
In 2019 - 540 years since the completion of the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin (1479)
In 2019 - 1030 years since the beginning of construction of the first known stone temple ancient Rus'– Tithe Church (989)
In 2018 - 1030 years of the Baptism of Rus'.
LOCAL TOPIC:
“The Slavic world in the era of St. Cyril and Methodius"
2019 dates:
1250 years since the death of Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril, one of the brothers (869)
800th anniversary of the Serbian Orthodox Church receiving autocephaly (1219)
1100 years of the proclamation of autocephaly of the Bulgarian Church (919)
The topic allows you to delve into the mission of the holy brothers, better understand their feat, and consider the fruits of the mission in Slavic countries - primarily in Bulgaria and Serbia, where their labors contributed to the final establishment of Christianity. The topic allows you to see the cultural ties of Russia with other Slavic countries and the significance of the mission for the spread and establishment of the Christian faith on Russian soil.
2019/2020 academic year
MAIN THEME:
"The Age of St. Alexander Nevsky"
Anniversary:
in 2020 - the 800th anniversary of the birth of St. Prince Alexander Nevsky
Approximate content of the topic: military feat (of the prince himself and in general), defense of the faith, holy and unholy contemporaries of the prince from princes, laity and clergy; princely family; veneration and temples associated with his name.
LOCAL THEME (two options):
I. “Solovki: past and present”
Anniversary:
in 2020 - the 300th anniversary of the repose of St. Job of Anzersky.
The topic is connected with the new martyrs and, in general, the host of those who suffered for Christ on the archipelago: St. Job had a revelation from the Mother of God that Solovki would become the Russian Golgotha. But the history of the monastery is interesting even before the terrible twentieth century.
II. "Orthodoxy in America"
The American Orthodox Church is a daughter Church of the Russian Church. The theme of the year includes the following aspects: the history of the American mission, the emergence and spread of Orthodoxy in America, the feat of Russian missionaries and saints, Russian monasteries in America, etc.
Anniversary dates:
in 2020 - the 50th anniversary of the autocephaly of the American Orthodox Church (1970).
In 2019 - 225 years since the appearance of the first Russian missionaries in Alaska (1794), St. Herman of Alaska.
2020/2021 academic year
MAIN THEME:
“Russian school in modern times (from Peter the Great to 1917)”
Anniversary:
2021 will mark the 300th anniversary of the establishment of the Slavic school under Peter I at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.
The topic allows you to get acquainted with the types of schools and ways of obtaining education in the 18th–19th centuries, the duration, levels and quality of education, the level of knowledge of graduates, and the teacher training system. Related to this topic is the general question of Christian attitudes toward education.
LOCAL TOPIC:
"Orthodoxy in Japan"
Anniversary:
2021 marks 160 years since the Russian missionary Archimandrite Nicholas (Kasatkin) arrived in Japan in 1869.
And the second date is 2021: 120 years since the release of the complete translation of the New Testament into Japanese, prepared by St. Nicholas (1901).
School tour of our anniversary X All-Russian Olympiad “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture: “Holy Rus', keep the Orthodox Faith!” takes place face-to-face on site.
Consultation on the organization and conduct of a school tour for the organizers of the Olympiad (grades 4-11) will take place on September 11, 2017 at 15:30 in the Primorsky District IMC (Omskaya 17), room. 321.
The teacher responsible for the school submits an application on our website, downloads assignments in his Personal Account and, after the school tour, posts the results on the website.
In the 2017–2018 academic year, tasks for the School Tour Olympiad will be distributed for the following categories of students: 1) for 4th grade students, 2) for 5th grade students, 3) for 6th grade students, 4) for 7th grade students x grades, 5) for students of 8th grades, 6) for students of 9th grades, 7) for students of 10–11th grades. Students of 4th grade in the module “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” will be able to take part in the Municipal Tour along with students of 5-11th grade in accordance with the Olympiad Schedule.
The school tour of the Olympiads is of an educational nature, so it will be useful for students, regardless of the module they study as part of the ORKSE, to complete this work.
Topics of the Olympiads for the 2017-2018 academic year: MAIN TOPIC: “Teach me, O God, to love You with all my mind, with all my thoughts...: spiritual poetry by K.R. and Count A.K. Tolstoy." The spiritual poetry of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov (K.R.) and Count Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy is not only a pearl of Russian literature, but also a striking example of worldview in the tradition of the Holy Tradition of the Church. Each of them was not only a talented poet, but also a unique personality, life path which today is a model of service to one’s favorite cause and the Fatherland. Anniversary: 2017 – 200th anniversary of the birth of Count A.K. Tolstoy; 2018 is the 160th anniversary of the birth of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov.
LOCAL TOPIC: “Tsarist Crimea” (Crimea under the Romanovs). Crimea was the favorite place of residence of the last Royal family. It was there that they wanted to spend the rest of their days after the overthrow of the monarchy. The rich and, as usual, difficult history of the peninsula was decorated with this deep affection of the royal house. The topic allows us to take an absentee trip to the Tsarist Crimea and try to understand what exactly aroused the royal sympathies and what Crimea itself received as a legacy from the kings who loved it.
Anniversary: 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of St. imp. Nicholas II. The theme of the XXVI International Educational Christmas Readings “Morality and the Future of Humanity” will also be a common thread in the tasks of all rounds of the Olympiad.
Once again we will go through the school stage step by step.
Step 1. A school representative (teacher, head teacher, director, but not a student) submits an application on the website opk.pravolimp.ru/documents. Possible difficulties when submitting an application: You could not find your school in our school database. We recommend reading special news: Instructions and answers to frequently asked questions. Search for a school in the school database on the website.
Step 2. The application has been submitted. We receive in your Personal Account: assignments in word and pdf format; keys; forms of diplomas of 3 degrees without stamps (the seal and signature are put by the school, since the tour is a school one).
A few words about your personal account: Your personal account is the inscription at the very top line of the site on the right in yellow letters “Personal Account”. To enter it, you need to click on this inscription. You must select the OPK tab. Each tour has a “show/hide details” entry. Accordingly, by clicking on it, you will see the above materials for this tour. If you click on the “show/hide details” link one more time, they will disappear (this is done for the convenience of working with various tours in your personal account). You can read and see more about what your Personal Account looks like in the article: Instructions and answers to frequently asked questions
What to do with tasks in your Personal Account?
Download, print according to the number of participants and conduct a round of the Olympiad. You can print out assignments in Word format in the font required for students. Then check the work using the keys and upload the results to the website. Uploading results - in your Personal Account. It is more convenient to download results using an Excel file; You can read more about how to do this in paragraph 4 of the article: Instructions and answers to frequently asked questions
Why upload lists of participants to the site:
- so that schoolchildren can receive a certificate of participation in the All-Russian Olympiad;
- so that teachers who conducted tours in their classes and school administrators could receive letters of gratitude;
- so that the schoolchildren who showed good results, could take part in subsequent rounds of the Olympiad.
We believe that it is best to conduct the Olympiad among students of the ENTIRE school, regardless of whether they have studied the subject or not. The guys, even if they don’t know the answers, will learn something new about the culture and history of our country as a result of the Olympiad. The optimal time for a school tour is 45 minutes.
How to identify school tour winners?
For those participants (winners and runners-up of the school tour) who want to take further part in the municipal tour, the school tour will end on November 10! After this, it will no longer be possible to download lists of participants.
What to do after completing the school tour?
At the end of October there will be news about municipal tours. The municipal tour starts on November 15 and ends on December 15!
The winners and prize-winners of the school tour can participate in the municipal round, and only those schools that conducted the school tour and uploaded the results to the website.
For additional information, see the website
On February 6, 2016, two school Olympiads organized by PSTGU took place in Moscow - the All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren on the Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture and the Multidisciplinary Subject Olympiad of PSTGU "Axios". In 2016, four Olympiads organized by PSTGU provide the opportunity for 300,000 schoolchildren from 57 regions of Russia to take part in competitions in almost a dozen humanities and natural science subjects. The winners will receive diplomas, state awards “In support of talented youth” and benefits for admission to specialized universities. But most importantly, the good will of schoolchildren participating in Orthodox Olympiads will be the key to the future life of the Church, the rector of PSTGU, Archpriest Vladimir Vorobyov, is convinced.
On a sunny Sunday winter day, Moscow's St. Tikhon's University has a very lively atmosphere - the St. Nicholas University Church and the area around it are full of schoolchildren of all ages. They came from Moscow and from all over Russia to participate in the full-time rounds of Orthodox intellectual Olympiads. Some communicate with each other, others pray and light candles in front of the icons. They have registered the participants and are all waiting for a common prayer and a welcoming speech from the rector of the University, Archpriest Vladimir Vorobyov.
Four Orthodox Olympiads of PSTGU in the 2015-2016 academic year – 300,000 participants
In 2016, regional rounds of the All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren on the Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture are being held in 57 regions of Russia. The final regional tours, which received Open status, are held in Moscow and Yekaterinburg. The Defense Industry Olympiad is being held for the 7th year in a row. The multidisciplinary subject Olympiad of PSTGU “Axios” is being held for the 11th year. Both Olympiads are included in the educational program of subject Olympiads for students of all forms of general secondary education, which PSTGU has been implementing since 2006 with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, with the assistance of the Ministry of Education Russian Federation, the Council of Rectors of Russia and with the financial support of the META Education Foundation.
In total, PSTGU organizes four Olympiads. In addition to the All-Russian Olympiad on the Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture (OPK) http://opk.pravolimp.ru/ and “Axios” http://aksios.pravolimp.ru/, there is also the Open All-Russian Intellectual Olympiad “Our Heritage” (OVIO) http: //ovio.pravolimp.ru/, and “Fundamentals Olympiad religious culture and secular ethics for students in grades 4-5" (ORKSE) http://ucheba.pravolimp.ru/.
Thousands of students participate in each Olympiad. Thus, relatively few schoolchildren took part in the Axios Olympiad - 3,000 schoolchildren, but this is an individual Olympiad, it is not aimed at schools, but at each student individually. The number of participants in the OPK and OVIO is much larger. In the 2015-2016 academic year, the total number of participants in all four PSTGU Olympiads was 300,000 schoolchildren. Unfortunately, due to the demographic crisis in Russia, the number of participants has decreased somewhat, while in 2014 the number of Olympiad participants was close to half a million people. Thus, today, four Olympiads organized by PSTGU are among the largest in terms of the number of participants in non-state Olympiad projects in Russia.
For comparison, the largest state All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren in the 2014 academic year attracts more than seven million children at all stages, or more than half of schoolchildren in Russia, according to Education Minister Livanov. In total, 71 Olympiads held in Russia are registered on the RSOS website.
All-Russian Olympiad“Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” is an annual Olympiad on a set of subjects related to the study of the history and culture of Orthodoxy. The main goal of the Olympiad is to involve students in research activities in the field of history and culture of Orthodoxy.
The multidisciplinary subject Olympiad of PSTGU "Axios" offers schoolchildren the opportunity to participate in competitions in almost 14 profiles, such as the basics of Christianity, Russian history, social studies, musical art, art history, art, mathematics, pedagogy, sociology, economics, Russian language, Church Slavonic language, literature, English language, pedagogy and sociology.
According to the Olympiad profiles included in the List of the Russian Council of Olympiads for Schoolchildren (RSOSH), the winners are awarded state prizes “In support of talented youth”. Winners and runners-up of the Olympiad will receive diplomas and may qualify for benefits when entering a university in a specialized subject or field. higher education(“Literature”, “History” or “Theology”).
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Participation in Orthodox Olympiads: “This good will is the guarantee of the future life of the Church”
Finally, noon comes, and Father Vladimir goes to the center of the church, stands in front of the icon of the patron saint of the University, St. Tikhon, and, surrounded by children, sings the prayer “To the Heavenly King,” then “Our Father,” and the troparion to Patriarch Tikhon, “Chosen by God in a difficult time.” The singing of prayers is taken up by the choir and children.
In the difficult times of communist persecution of the Christian faith and the Orthodox Church, it was impossible to imagine that someday churches would be full of children and youth who would write some kind of Orthodox Olympiads, says Father Rector in his welcoming speech to the young participants of the two school competitions. “It was impossible to dream that children would study Christianity, study in Orthodox schools, so that they could ask questions about the Christian faith and get answers to them. It was unimaginable! That is why Father Vladimir is so especially happy to see children and youth in this church.
Archpriest Vladimir Vorobyov spoke about the persecution of Christians, which he himself witnessed, about the dark era of Soviet power, which was, at the same time, a heroic era for the Church, which gave birth to many great saints, the same as those who were in the first centuries of Christianity. hope that participation in Orthodox Olympiads will help hundreds of people in the future young participants maintain firm faith in God, fulfill God’s commandments, learn love, fidelity, truth, know and love the history and culture of Russia.
“My generation is leaving. A little more - you will grow up and take our place. I really hope that today among you, still young, some still very small in stature, there are many future priests, many future mothers, future teachers who will teach the law of God to a new generation of children and teach them. I want you to take up this baton, so that you touch the spirit of our holy ascetics, so that you love them and want to follow the path that they paved at the cost of their lives. This is a victorious path, a good path,” Father Vladimir Vorobyov is convinced.
“And today you live. And you may already know to whom you owe your church life? You owe these saints, these your grandfathers, great-grandfathers, who gave their lives for the faith in prisons, camps, were shot, were tortured, endured torture, hunger, deprivation, exile, died in the taiga or the Kazakh deserts. They became the seed of the faith that you received today, which is being sown into your hearts in a wonderful way today. Today, you are all the fruit of their feat,” Archpriest Vladimir Vorobyov said such inspired words to the new generation.
It is very important that young people voluntarily come to the Church and participate in Olympiads, which provide an opportunity to look at the world from a Christian point of view. “It’s especially important to participate together, rejoice together, talk, communicate, think, learn something new. This good will is the guarantee of the future life of the Church,” explains Archpriest Vladimir Vorobyov of the goals of holding Orthodox Olympiads for schoolchildren.
“Look at ordinary school subjects from the point of view of Orthodoxy”
Responsible for the Axios Olympiad Irina Georgievna Artamkina says that the difference between the Axios Olympiad and many other subject Olympiads is that it provides an opportunity to “look at ordinary school subjects from a different perspective - from the point of view of Orthodoxy.”
In her opinion, it is useful for children to participate in Olympiads, because it “always gives an incentive to expand and deepen their knowledge.” “Even if the participant does not take any place, but, upon coming home, reaches into some book, asks elders to find out more about the subject, then our task will be completed,” Irina Georgievna is convinced.
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A significant percentage of winners and prize-winners of PSTGU Olympiads naturally enter the University, although not all of them, of course. “I looked at the statistics, but I was interested in the results of their further studies, and I can say that, based on the results of the first session, they are basically in the first quarter in terms of academic performance - these are the best students,” says Irina Georgievna. “Every year I look at the graduates and often see familiar faces of participants in past Olympiads, and some of them receive honors diplomas,” she says.
Relatively few participants come from Moscow itself to PSTGU, since Moscow schoolchildren are overloaded with various Olympiads. If Muscovites participate, then these are either children who saw the announcement in churches and came to PSTGU themselves, or children from Orthodox schools. “Children from other regions of Russia come to us more often - from the Urals to Kaliningrad, from Arkhangelsk region to Crimea and the Stavropol Territory,” says Irina Georgievna Artamkina.
It is important that information about PSTGU is disseminated in many schools. This helps schoolchildren who, even if they do not participate in the Olympiad, will know about the opportunity to get an education at an Orthodox university in various specialties: “not only religious studies and theology, as many people think, but also history, philology, sociology, and pedagogy " “After studying at our university, you can become a musician, an artist, and even a mathematician. You just need to have a desire to be useful to the Church and the Fatherland,” explains Irina Georgievna Artamkina.
Schoolchildren in theological school
After prayer and the rector’s word, the children from the church are taken to all the classrooms of the Theological Faculty by PSTGU students. Helping in organizing Olympiads for them is obedience - not only an educational, but also a spiritual practice, characteristic of all theological schools. Students accompany the participants, hand out assignments, collect answers, watch how they write, make sure they don’t cheat, and hand out cakes and chocolates so that the children can reinforce their strength, because several hours of intense intellectual work require a lot of energy.
The children prepared for the Olympiad for several months to answer questions about the Christian faith, the history of the Church and the history of Russia, literature, economics, sociology and other subjects. Now they can test their knowledge in competition with each other.
At the same time, they are immersed in the atmosphere of the largest humanitarian Orthodox university in Russia. In each classroom there are icons in the red corner. From the walls of the classrooms, portraits of Patriarch Tikhon and the New Martyrs look at them. PSTGU students, helping to organize the Olympiad, read the Synodal translation of the Bible in Russian while the children are writing. Maybe they too are studying for next week's New Testament assignment, or maybe they're just praying. Perhaps some of the schoolchildren will be attracted by the atmosphere of the theological school, and they will want to enroll here when the time comes to choose a university.
Young people today have wide access to the Internet and receive a lot of information. How to interest them in the teachings of the Church, the culture and history of Russia? Can the ancient teachings of piety and the timeless tenets of Christianity compete for the attention of the younger generation with a sea of information from around the world? The example of the Orthodox Olympiads shows that it can compete and become a tool in the knowledge of church truths, in gaining knowledge of the history of Russia and the structure of the entire world created by God. I would like the hopes of Father Vladimir Vorobyov and all the organizers of the PSTGU Olympiads to come true, that all these early childhood impressions would help these schoolchildren in the future to maintain the Christian faith and loyalty to God and the Church, for some to become a student at PSTGU, for others to become a parishioner of a church near their at home, and all together become faithful children of the Orthodox Church and our Motherland.
Photo, text Alexander Filippov
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