HSE University–Nizhny Novgorod Students Win GORKYCODE City Hackathon
This was the second hackathon organised by the Analytical Centre of Nizhny Novgorod and the city’s Digital Transformation Department. Eighteen student teams from the city's major higher education institutions participated, spending 52 hours developing innovative, AI-powered digital products designed to benefit Nizhny Novgorod and its residents.
Mentors from the Nizhny Novgorod Analytical Centre, the Department of Digital Transformation, and invited experts supported the students throughout the three-day marathon.
The hackathon’s goal was to solve applied problems in three tracks: Residents' Requests, Procurement, and Document Database. Participants used artificial intelligence to analyse large volumes of information to improve urban management efficiency.
Yury Shalabaev, Mayor of Nizhny Novgorod
For us, the hackathon is not just a competition but a real tool for developing the city. Following the first event, the best solutions were implemented by the city administration, and the strongest participants joined the team at the Nizhny Novgorod Analytical Centre. I have no doubt that the most motivated, talented, and energetic students have gathered here. I am sure that you will come up with bold, modern ideas that will tangibly benefit Nizhny Novgorod and its residents.
Team 8 from HSE University–Nizhny Novgorod, which presented a solution in the Procurement track, won the hackathon. They developed an AI-powered prototype to verify legal documents and significantly reduce processing time.
Winning team: Vadim Dyu, Dmitry Kim, Vitaly Kostin, Makar Kryazhev, Egor Gusev, and Diana Lapik
We developed a solution that uses AI to speed up the verification of legal documents by 10 times. It checks documents for discrepancies with federal laws, regulations, and other legislative acts.
Our team is well-knit and experienced—this isn’t our first hackathon. We know how to work under pressure, respond to crises quickly, and allocate resources wisely. This allowed us to generate and test several hypotheses during the competition and present a high-quality prototype.
The most valuable aspect was the opportunity to improve real processes in our hometown's administration. For three days, we worked closely with track mentors—employees of the Nizhny Novgorod administration—who provided feedback on every iteration. It was especially interesting to see the approaches and products of other teams.
Participating in hackathons is a real step outside your comfort zone and it has a direct impact on your development. Under tight deadlines, you are forced to use all your skills—both soft and hard—simultaneously. This environment closely resembles a real IT team: making prompt decisions, maintaining constant dialogue, and receiving feedback from industry experts.
Hackathons let you see your strengths, understand what to improve, and gain invaluable career experience. They are a chance to prove yourself and show experts that you can work in a team and create unique solutions quickly.
Second place was awarded to Team 13, which also included students from HSE University–Nizhny Novgorod. They presented a smart document database for the Nizhny Novgorod administration to help navigate acts and regulations efficiently.
Maria Torgovkina, fourth-year student of the Bachelor’s in Applied Mathematics and Information Science
It is gratifying to see Nizhny Novgorod actively developing and creating platforms for youth initiatives. It is a great honour and motivation to be a part of this process and present our project here.
See also:
‘We Managed to Outperform Teams of 15–20 IT Specialists’
On June 5, 2025, the top projects were presented as part of the Digital Solutions Marathon hackathon in a case study on forecasting and evaluating lost sales. First place went to a joint team of students from the HSE Faculty of Computer Science and the National University of Science and Technology MISIS, consisting of six students.
Engine for Game Development Created at HSE University
The ‘Game Engineering and Interactive Systems’ workshop team of the HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM) invites everyone to participate in testing the Claw Engine, the first version of their game development program. This new tool allows for processing three-dimensional images and programming one’s own scripts.
FCS Team Takes First Place at Rosneft Universities’ Hackathon
A team from HSE University’s Faculty of Computer Science took first place in a Rosneft hackathon held in October among the country’s universities. The hackathon was organised by the research institute RN-BashNIPIneft LLC. The competition participants had the chance to try their hand at solving real production problems.
‘It Doesn’t Test, It Teaches’: Hackathon for DANO Data Analysis Olympiad Held in Nizhny Novgorod
A hackathon was held in Nizhny Novgorod for students in grades 9–11 as part of the Data Analysis National Olympiad (DANO). More than 90 school students in grades 9–11 from Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and the surrounding region, St Petersburg, Samara, Cheboksary, and Ufa—a total of 15 Russian regions—took part in the hackathon.
Students from Leading Universities Take Part in Hackathon Organised by MTS and HSE University
At the end of June, HSE University hosted Reklamathon, an inter-university hackathon in which participants must develop a prototype product for forecasting the effectiveness of advertising campaigns on social media. The event was organised by HSE University’s Data-Driven Communication master’s programme, which trains communications industry specialists. The hackathon’s assignments and judges were arranged by MTS, Russia’s largest digital ecosystem.
‘I Like to Think that the Solutions We Find Can Help People in the Future’
Innopolis University has announced the results of Global Al Challenge, an international AI industry online hackathon in which teams of developers compete to create new materials using artificial intelligence. The DrugANNs team, which included students from the HSE University Faculty of Computer Science, took third place.
HSE MIEM Holds 2020 GameDevTech Hackathon
This month, the HSE MIEM GameDevTech 2020 game development hackathon held its closing ceremony where the winning student teams were announced. The HSE News Service looks at how the hackathon was organized and who won.
HSE Students Take Third Place at Junction International Hackathon
This year 1500 participants from 100 countries took part in the Junction International Hackathon. A team of second-year students of the HSE Faculty of Computer Science (Timofey Smirnov, Igor Zverev, Ainur Nuriev and Aldar Danilov) led by Maxim Dyakov (first-year student of the programme in E-Business) presented a smart lighting project.
Eight Teams Compete in HSE’s First Data Science Hackathon
HSE University has recently hosted an SAS Data Hack Platypus data analysis hackathon, where teams competed to solve a case problem provided by the online hypermarket, Utkonos (or, in English, ‘Platypus’).The top five finalists received devices from partner companies as gifts.
MIEM HSE Students Develop MRI Smart Blanket
The smart blanket was presented at Sirius Scientific and Technological University in Sochi and awarded first place at a physical sciences hackathon. Over the course of one day, 15 student teams had to choose a topic, study the market, develop a concept, and present a prototype of their electronic device.