According to the results of the All-Russian contest 2023 Teacher of the Year of Russia, an SSU graduate Oleg Yankovskii was recognized as its absolute winner. The results were announced on Teacher's Day in Gostiny Dvor at the Forum of Class Teachers.
Teacher of the Year is the main pedagogical competition in Russia. Every year, all regions of the country cheer for their candidates, and the Big Crystal Pelican statuette is the cherished dream of all teachers.
In 2023, the contest was held in Moscow Region. After the selection, 90 teachers were admitted to the finals, and for two weeks they fought for the right to go to the next stage, having overcome six competitive tests. At the closing ceremony, there were announced the names of the four prize-winners, including the best one.
Before the announcement of the results, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova, Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Sergei Kravtsov, and Chair of the Grand Jury of the Teacher of the Year of Russia competition, Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University Victor Sadovnichii made a welcoming speech.
Tatyana Golikova congratulated everyone present on Teachers’ Day and pointed out that in recent years the prestige of the teaching profession had increased several times. According to her, in 2023, 905 thousand people submitted to universities for teaching courses, and the enrolment place was 12 people per place.
Opening the white envelope, she announced the four names of the prize-winners of the competition. They were a physical education teacher of the Krasnoluch school No. 29 named after Hero of the Soviet Union Safa Khuzyamovich, the People’s Republic Luhansk People's, Anton Kandaurov, a mathematics teacher of Innopolis Lyceum Arman Kostanyan, an English teacher of Secondary school No. 7 (Grozny) Bella Yandiyeva, and a physics teacher of Algorithm of Success Educational Complex, Belgorod Region, Mikhail Ladnykh.
The absolute winner of the All-Russian Teacher of the Year of Russia contest became a teacher of the Russian language and literature of the secondary school at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a graduate of Saratov State University Oleg Yankovskii.
‘There is such a saying, Behind every great man is a great woman. I do not consider myself great, but there is a great woman behind me, Lyudmila Yankovskaya, my wife, who is waiting for me now in Iran. In January, when I was overburned out, she told me, ‘Take part in the MIA stage of the competition.’ I did, showed good results, and moved on. I want to express my gratitude to my wife, my inspiration. And to inspire is the most important mission of teachers. Therefore, she is a real teacher, and you are all real teachers, too. I would like to thank a lot everyone who has supported me and my seventh form pupils,’ the holder of the honourary title said.
This year, for the first time, the absolute winner of the professional competition will receive the main award, 1 million roubles, and the other prize-winners will receive 500 thousand roubles each.
Oleg Yankovsky graduated from the Institute of Philology and Journalism, SSU, in 2015. In the same year, he won the Step into the Profession pedagogical skills contest. He was the captain of the national team of university students at the Teacher of the New Generation All-Russian competition in Glazov and became the winner of the Teacher of the New Generation All-Russian Festival in Moscow.
In 2018, after successfully presenting his dissertation on the dynamics of Russian word-formation families: the families with the stems *HOD-, *JЬD-, *ŠED-, Oleg Yankovskii was awarded the degree of Candidate of Philology. His scientific supervisor was Chair of the Corporate Department of Russian Philology and Media Education. It was at this department that he began his professional career as an assistant, and also worked as a teacher of the Russian language and literature at Eastern European Lyceum.
In 2024, the Teacher of the Year contest will be held in Saratov Region, where the absolute winner comes from.
