The results of the All-Russian “Bolshaya Peremena” competition for students in grades 5–7 and participants of the international track were announced at the international children’s center Artek. Approximately 700 students from various regions of the country participated in the finals, including seven schoolchildren from Penza Oblast.
The winner was Elizaveta Krupina, a student at the school in the urban-type settlement of Shemysheyka named after Hero of the Soviet Union A.T. Bodryashov.
Second-degree laureates included Darya Lapshina from School No. 43 in Penza, Varvara Baranova from School No. 1 named after L.B. Yermin in Zasechnoye, Penza District, Ivan Yefimov from School No. 27 in Penza, and Maria Vetrova and Elizaveta Krupina from the school in Shemysheyka named after Hero of the Soviet Union A.T. Bodryashov.
The grand prize for winners in the 5–7 grade competition track is a “Dream Journey” train trip along the Moscow–Vladivostok route.
Mentor teachers of the winners will each receive 100,000 rubles and the opportunity to participate in an educational program provided by the competition’s partners.
Bolshaya Peremena is the flagship project of the Movement of the First. The Federal Youth Agency (Rosmolodezh) acts as a co-organizer. The competition is held with the support of the Ministry of Education of Russia and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia. Since 2025, Bolshaya Peremena has been part of the national project “Youth and Children.”
Photo provided by the Ministry of Education of Penza Oblast.
Penza Schoolgirl Wins the “Bolshaya Peremena” Competition

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