Overview

• The number of participating regions is planned to rise from three to six by 2029, with Tatarstan, Rostov Oblast and Tyumen Oblast giving consent to join.
• Minister Sergei Kravtsov said the ministry will submit an initiative to extend the pilot through 2029.
• The trial lets ninth graders enter colleges by taking only two OGE exams — Russian language and mathematics — instead of the usual four.
• The program ran this year in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Lipetsk region and was described by the ministry as successful and popular with students.
• Kravtsov outlined the expansion in an interview with Rossiya 24, framing the move as a scale-up based on the pilot’s results.