On Dec. 1, 2013, St. Petersburg hosted Programming World Championship semifinals between universities of North-Eastern European Region. 250 teams from Russia, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, and Kirgizia took part in competition. Semifinals happened simultaneously in real time with joint result table in St. Petersburg, Tashkent, Barnaul, and Tbilisi.

Saratov State Universities was represented by four teams from Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technologies and Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics. They had to solve 11 problems of various difficulty levels in 5 hours. All Saratov teams got certificates.

Team SSU1 (Ivan Fefer, Gerald Agapov, Vitali Kudasov) won first class certificate and third place. They solved 8 problems as did the teams of St. Petersburg and Moscow State Universities that got first and second place accordingly.

Team SSU3 (Pavel Kholkin, Aleksandr Frolov, Artur Svechnikov) and team SSU2 (Sergey Chumachenko, Maksim Gusarov, Igor Kudriashov) got second class certificates.

Team SSU4 (Aleksandr Ignatiev, Kirill Osipov, Roman Kireev) got third class certificates.

SSU teams have been training at the SSU Olympiad Training Center named after N.L. Andreeva.

Best SSU team is going to Programming World Championship final that will take place in Yekaterinburg in summer, 2014. 100 university teams from all over the world participate in the final.

You can see the result table here.