The first round of the traditional online history competition “Mammut” for students in grades 5-9 took place from 13-19 October. The online competition will take place in four phases in the school year 2025/26: October, December, March and April.
The first round was dedicated to democracy and local elections for all age groups (questions were based on primary school social studies textbooks and the website elections.ee, according to the age of the students). They were given 45 minutes to complete the tasks. The ranking of the participants will be based on the results of the first round as well as on a summary of all four rounds. The format of the competition allows you to join any round or to participate in just a few of them.

In the first round, 4976 students participated, 1499 of them in grade 9. From TTRK (Tallinn Tõnismäe Reaalkooli), 11 students took part in the competition – eight sixth, one seventh and two eighth. 5. and 9th graders did not take part in Mammut.

TTRK’s best results were achieved by Yuri Pashkevich (6th grade, 1st place; 53 points out of 53 possible) and Ivan Sak (7th grade, 1st place; 56 points out of 57 possible). In their age groups, 1078 and 803 students participated respectively. Eva Saija (6th B) scored 52 out of 53 points – giving her 28th place. Three other sixth graders – Andrei Müttü, Patrik Latvietis and Veronika Maškova – scored 51 points, which corresponds to 76th place. Sixths Adrian Kornilov, Anissia Voskoboinikova and Maksim Lukinjuk also did very well, as did eighths Dmitry Titov and Vladislav Poplavny.

The second stage will take place from 1 to 7 December and will be open to pupils in grades 5 to 8.