In honor of Pushkin’s 225 year anniversary and Abay Kunanbayev’s 180 year anniversary a pedagogical mastery contest for all Russologists of Kazakhstan. The organizers are the Pushkin state Russian language institute and the Representatives of Rossotrudnichestvo in Kazakhstan. Both school and university teachers of Kazakhstan can take part in the competition. The aim of this competition is to increase the distribution of the best educational techniques and to popularize literature. The registration for the contest will be active from the 31 of March to the 13 of April on the “Education in Russian” portal available through the link. The main part of the contest will be held online from April 14 to May 4. The winners will be revealed no later than May 12 and can take part in the V Kostomarov forum in Moscow and the prize winners will be able to take one of the courses for advanced professional education in Pushkin Institute online.