Results of the 2025 VYZOV Prize Submission Campaign Announced at SPIEF

The VYZOV Prize for Future Technologies has received a total of 632 award submissions from 40 countries for its third season.

“President Vladimir Putin noted while greeting the participants and organizers of the VYZOV Prize that last year this award reached an international level and received recognition from friends and partners abroad. This season, we are seeing its popularity grow. It has received a total of 632 award submissions from 40 countries, with its international category, “Discovery” drawing the most interest. The number of submissions received from abroad has increased by almost 40%. I’m sure that in the future, this award will continue to attract more and more participants and contribute to strengthening international cooperation, and to promoting Russian science,” said Dmitry Chernyshenko, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Vyzov Foundation for the Development of Scientific and Cultural Relations.

This year, the award’s international “Discovery” category received 155 submissions from scientists based in other countries, such as China, Kazakhstan, Turkey, the United States, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Brazil, India, Indonesia and Australia.

Seventy-five percent of all submissions for the 2025 VYZOV Prize came from Russian scientists located across 58 regions of the Russian Federation. The largest numbers of submissions came from Moscow (137), St. Petersburg (51), Nizhny Novgorod Region (39), Moscow Region (36), Novosibirsk Region (19), Sverdlovsk Region (14), Tomsk Region (13), Rostov Region (12), Samara Region (11) and Krasnodar Territory (10).

The average age of the award’s participants is 47, with the youngest being 18, and the eldest, 89. The share of female submissions has increased, reaching 26 percent this year from 20 percent in 2024.

“We are seeing more and more interest in the VYZOV Prize each year. This shows the trust enjoyed by both the award’s organizers and by its Scientific Committee. This is a second season when not only Russian scientists, but also scientists from other countries are allowed to submit nominations. And the international category has received the largest number of submissions. This testifies to the VYZOV Prize’s reputation, not only in Russia, but worldwide,” said Natalia Tretyak, President of the Vyzov Foundation for the Development of Scientific and Cultural Relations.

“This year, we have received more submissions than last year, and their quality remains high. The members of the award’s Scientific Committee now have a difficult and responsible task of selecting the most outstanding research papers from a large number of top-level contestants. At this stage, it is hard to predict who will become the laureates of the 2025 VYZOV Prize, but I can tell you with confidence that those will be great scientists," said Artem Oganov, Chairman of the VYZOV Prize Scientific Committee, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Distinguished Professor at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Member of the European Academy, and Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and of the American Physical Society.