Contents

1. Who can take part?p. 3
2. Documents to prepare firstp. 4
3. Part 1 — From ATHAR to the programme page (steps 1–7)p. 5
4. Part 2 — Your platform account (steps 8–10)p. 9
5. The Master's track: what differs, and what we verifiedp. 12
6. Part 3 — The participant form, Bachelor's example (steps 11–15)p. 13
7. Part 4 — Sending and follow-up (steps 16–20)p. 18
8. Final checklist and helpp. 21

How to read this guide

Each step carries a track badge: Both tracks for account and navigation steps, or Bachelor's for what we tried in the Bachelor's application only. Master's differences are gathered on the Master's track page.

• Tried Done for real on ATHAR or on the platform on 5 November 2026.
• Official source Shown on an HSE page or in the platform interface, but not carried through to the end.
• Not verified Not available yet, or not found in an official source.

Each step has a screenshot with numbered gold boxes and an explanation for each number. Boxes headed “Now” or “Done when” sum up what to do and how to tell you have finished. Personal data in the screenshots is hidden.

Who can take part?

The education document differs by track

This is the eligibility scope as stated in the current text at admissions.hse.ru/olymp. The education document alone does not decide eligibility, and a category the text does not mention is left open by the sources; if your situation falls outside this scope, ask HSE before applying.

Now

read the conditions above at admissions.hse.ru/olymp, then get the education document for your track ready before you start.

Documents to prepare first

The Bachelor's form has three upload slots. Each file must be pdf, jpg, jpeg or png, up to 20 MB (as the platform states when you upload). Tried

Get your documents ready before you start

three readable files, each under 20 MB.

Multi-page documents

Combine the pages into one pdf, since each document has a single upload slot.

Type HSE into the search box. Several opportunities from the same university appear.

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1. 1Open “HSE University International Olympiad — Bachelor's and Master's”. Do not confuse it with the Youth Olympiad МОМ, “Higher League” or “Vysshaya Proba”: those are separate competitions with their own rules.
2. 2The yellow line means the date is quoted as HSE announced it. Confirm it on the platform page (step 8) before you plan around it.

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1. 1The title: entry to university in September 2027.
2. 2“Participation platform — Bachelor's” and “Participation platform — Master's” open the two track pages on the Sodruzhestvo platform (step 8 and the Master's page). HSE's own page is a secondary link below them.
3. 3“Choose your programme ↓” takes you down this page to the programme cards (step 6); it does not open an external site.
4. 4Registration opens on 1 November 2026 and closes on 2 February 2027. HSE gives no closing time, so do not leave it to the last day.
5. 5The test (Bachelor's competition) runs from 25 January to 12 February 2027 — so the test starts while registration is still open.

Done when

you have noted the registration deadline and the test window.

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1. 1Creating an account is not the same as applying: the application is sent from the participant form (Part 3).
2. 2The Bachelor's track is for pupils in grades 10–11 (or 11–12). Details on the Who can take part? page.

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1. 1Type part of the subject's name into “Search for a programme”. For example, “languages” shows 5 of the 208 programmes across both tracks.
2. 2Filter by level (Bachelor's or Master's) and campus (Moscow, St Petersburg, Perm, Nizhny Novgorod).
3. 3Press “Details” on the programme you want.

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1. 1Language of study at the university: Russian or English for this programme. This is not the test language (step 12).
2. 2Required documents: an identity document and an education document (see Documents).
3. 3Test subjects for this programme: Russian language and English language. Subjects differ from programme to programme.

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1. 1Press “Participation page” to open the programme's page on the Sodruzhestvo platform.
2. 2That page is public; the form itself needs you to sign in (step 9).

Switch the interface from ru to en at the top of the page; all platform screenshots from here on use the English interface. The form is the same for every Bachelor's programme; the screenshots come from “Advertising and Public Relations”, Moscow.

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1. 1The olympiad's stages on the platform: “Competition” from 1 November 2026 to 23 March 2027 (the whole stage, registration and test included), then “Results” and “Winners' Documents”.
2. 2Within that stage: registration closes on 2 February 2027, the test starts on 25 January 2027, and the test covers Russian and English.
3. 3Press “Go”. If you are not signed in, the sign-in page appears (step 9).

One sodrujestvo.org account covers every olympiad on the platform; if you already have one, do not create another. sodrujestvo.org · Sign in — you are done when “Go” opens the form.

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You already have an account:

1. 1Choose “by email” or “by phone”, whichever you registered with.
2. 2Enter your email and password, then “Sign in”. Forgotten it? “Forgot Password?”.
3. 3No account yet? “Sign up”.

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You do not have an account:

1. 1Your name as in your passport, in Latin letters (details at the top of the next page).
2. 2Country: your country.
3. 3Enter your email, press “Receive a code”, and type in the code sent to that email.
4. 4“Add phone” is optional; it lets you sign in with your phone number later.
5. 5Account role: “Listener” (for schoolchildren and students). This is your account's role on the platform, not the participant category in the application (step 11).
6. 6Tick the terms box (required), then “Sign up”. The marketing box is optional.

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1. 1“Identity Document”: your passport.
2. 2“Education Document (Certificate)”: the Russian page specifies “справка из школы”, a certificate of enrolment from your school. The English word “Certificate” is broader than the original, so go by the Russian meaning.
3. 3A link to the programme on the HSE website, and the enquiries address [email protected].

Between the account and the form

Your account details (name, date of birth, email, phone and gender) appear in the form already filled in Tried. Country of residence, citizenship, address, school and files are filled in inside the form itself, and every programme you apply to has its own form.

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make sure your three files are ready, then go back to the stages and press “Go”.

The account and navigation steps (1–6 and 8–9) are the same for both tracks. Master's programmes, though, sit on a separate platform page: “HSE University International Olympiad (for International Undergraduate Students)”, with 128 programmes. sodrujestvo.org · Master's

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1. 1“Competition of Portfolio Documents”: registration from 1 November 2026 to 2 February 2027; competition tasks open on 1 December 2026. No time or time zone is given.
2. 2Assessment is based on the portfolio, and may include a test or interview depending on the programme. Some programmes list an extra stage, such as “Собеседование” (interview) for the St Petersburg UX programme; check your programme's stages on its card and page.

Get your portfolio ready before you start

education document, motivation letter and CV, each as a clear file; then follow steps 8–9 from your Master's programme page.

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1. 1Participant category “Participant category”: the Bachelor's application has one option, “Schoolchild”, already selected. Leave it as it is. For the Master's category, see the Master's page. It is separate from the account role “Listener” (step 9), and choosing it does not confirm eligibility.
2. 2“Nomination - Class”: open the list and pick the programme you came from; it is the only one listed.
3. 3“Educational organization”: search for the school where you study now and select it. If it is not there, go to step 12.

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1. 1School not on the list? Tick “My school is not on the list”.
2. 2A new field appears: type your school's official name in Latin letters, with its city. Example: Al-Nour Secondary School, Alexandria.
3. 3“Upload a certificate from the educational organization”: upload the school certificate (file one). The file name appears once uploaded; while only the blue text shows, the slot is empty.
4. 4“Select the language in which you will take the test”: this programme offers a single option, “Русский” (Russian). Select it.

Check your details exactly as they appear in your passport. Name, date of birth, age, email and phone come pre-filled from your account; check them letter by letter against your passport and correct any mistake; there is no need to retype what is already right.

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1. 1“Country of residence”: the country where you live now.
2. 2“Citizenship”: the country that issued your passport. It can differ from where you live — an Egyptian studying in Saudi Arabia, for instance, lives in Saudi Arabia but holds Egyptian citizenship.
3. 3“City of residence” appears once you choose a country of residence. Type the city and delete any space after the last letter; otherwise “Удалите лишние пробелы” (remove extra spaces) appears and the form will not send.
4. 4“Region of residence”: choose your region within your country of residence. The fields and lists shown here follow the country you picked in item 1 and can differ from country to country; if the list appears in Russian, search by the Russian name.
5. 5“Residence address” is where you live; “Registration address” is your officially registered address. If they are the same, tick “Matches the residence address”.

Below these is “Gender”: choose one.

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1. 1“Social media contact”: pick an app you actually use from “Select service”, and a field appears for your ID on it (username, or the number linked to the account). The field is not marked “Optional field”, so fill it in with a real contact you check — never a made-up one.
2. 2The passport fields under “Identity document” are optional (each says “Optional field”). Leave blank any field that does not apply: “Passport series” and “Division code” belong to Russian passports; if your passport has nothing matching them, leave them empty.
3. 3“Upload a copy of the document”: upload your passport copy (file two). This slot is separate from the optional fields — do not leave it empty.

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1. 1“Download the template” downloads the consent form in the interface language.
2. 2“Upload the consent with your signature”: fill in the form, sign it and upload it (file three).
3. 3The last “Паспорт” box: its hint says it is for holders of a Russian passport. Leave it empty if you do not have one; your own passport copy went in at step 14.

The English template has two pages. You fill in your full name as in your passport, the passport number, its date and place of issue, and at the end the date, your signature and your name with initials (for example A. M. HASSAN). The Russian version asks for the issuing authority instead of the place. Combine both pages into one pdf.

Files

All three slots hold a file: certificate (12), passport (14) and consent (15). An empty slot still shows the blue “Upload…” text with no file name.

Details

Name and date of birth match your passport, citizenship and country of residence are right, and the registration address is filled in or ticked as matching your residence.

Spaces

No “Удалите лишние пробелы” message under any field. If one appears, delete only the space after the last letter.

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1. 1“Thank you for applying for the HSE International Olympiad!”: your application has arrived. All further information, including the schedule, comes to your email.
2. 2After this step, the details of your application's next task appear here. For this programme we saw: “On January 25 at 00:00 Moscow time the test task… will appear here”, i.e. 25 January 2027 (UTC+3). The wording and date can differ by programme, so go by what your own page shows.

Done when

you see this message. Keep a screenshot of it. Remember: a received application does not mean admission or winning.

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1. 1The “Olympiad” list: each programme you applied to has its own application; switch between them here.
2. 2“Participant questionnaire — Moderation”: the form is under review and cannot be edited for now.
3. 3“Competition”: registration until 2 February 2027; test tasks from 25 January to 12 February 2027. “Move to stage” takes you into the test once it opens.

Open your account and follow your application

sodrujestvo.org · My Olympiad

If the status changes

If the form is returned to you for corrections, fix what is asked and send it again before registration closes.

HSE gives no date for when the form review ends; follow it in your account and inbox as in the first row.

Final checklist

• You have sent a form for each programme you want, and seen the thank-you message for each.
• Bachelor's: certificate, passport and consent uploaded. Master's: portfolio uploaded as your programme's page requires.
• You have submitted your admission application at admissions.hse.ru.
• You have noted the test date, and added the platform's address to your contacts so its emails do not land in spam.

Help and links

• Enquiries (Moscow): [email protected] · +7 (495) 531 00 59
• Conditions and admission steps: admissions.hse.ru/olymp
• Olympiad page on the platform: sodrujestvo.org/en/olympiads/olimpiada-dlya-inostrannyh-shkolnikov-niu-vshe
• Olympiad page on ATHAR: athar.ac/en/opportunities/hse-international-olympiad

Version history: 1.1 (5 November 2026): the buttons on ATHAR's HSE page now open the participation platform for each track, so the step 4 screenshot and its explanation were updated. 1.0 (5 November 2026): first release.

All sources read on 5 November 2026.