On April 27, 2025, the final of the Russian Cup for programming unmanned aircraft systems "Parma-BAS" will be held in Perm. The prize fund will be 500 rubles.
A total of 210 participants from 35 regions of the Russian Federation applied for the qualifying round. Sixteen athletes made it to the finals, eight in each division – student and professional. In the first division, the top eight included three representatives of the Ulyanovsk Region, two from the Samara Region, and one each from the Vladimir Region, Yaroslavl Region, and Perm Krai. In the second division, there were two participants from the Republic of Tatarstan and one each from the Donetsk People's Republic, Orenburg, Oryol, Saratov, Tomsk, and Tver Regions. If the finalist athletes are unable to take part in the in-person round for any reason, their place will be taken by the next participants on the list, including those from other regions.
The final of the competition promises to be spectacular, it will be held in the playoff format ("elimination game"). Visualization of the code written by the participants will be demonstrated on multi-meter LED screens of the host site in the presence of experts - participants of the business program on autonomous unmanned aircraft systems, enthusiasts and fans.
"UAS programming is a new spectacular high-tech sport. In real time, viewers will watch on screens how each participant's drone copes with the assigned tasks. The task of the aircraft is to study the terrain and give commands to the ground robot, helping it reach the destination. The winner is the participant whose robot in the final, having overcome all the obstacles, arrives at the destination first. – notes Evgeny Khrychkin, chief judge of the competition, executive director of the Perm Regional Federation of Sports Programming. – The complex technological task is not only programming aircraft operating in a changing external environment, but also programming and visualizing this environment itself.”
The environment for completing tasks at the competition is the company's domestic autonomous flight simulator "Geoscan", the general partner of the competition.
The event will take place at the following address: Perm, Kosmonavtov Highway 111D. Registration of spectators, participants of the business program, plenary discussion "Personnel for achieving technological leadership in the UAS industry" and media representatives is available at the following link: https://parma-bas.ru/registration The program of the final competition and conference is posted on the official website of the competition https://parma-bas.ru
The competition will be broadcast live and recorded on the RUTUBE channel of the Perm Regional Federation of Sports Programming: https://rutube.ru/channel/33400148/
Organizers of the event: the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation, the Government of Perm Krai and the Federation of Sports Programming. Co-organizer: Perm Krai Federation of Sports Programming. General partner – Geoscan Group. Information partners: RBC Perm Media Holding, Magma Media Group, Vkurse.ru online publication. Event partners: Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, TrafficData Company, ANO University of the National Technological Initiative 2035, Leader ID.
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Parma-BAS – annual all-Russian competitions dedicated to the development of control algorithms for groups of unmanned vehicles. In 2025, the competition received the status of the Russian Cup.
The qualifying round of the Russian Cup for programming unmanned aircraft systems was held online from March 24 to March 30, 2025. 210 participants registered for it, of which 155 people were in the student division, 55 in the professional division. The competition geography covered 35 regions of the Russian Federation: Altai Krai, Amur Oblast, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Vladimir Oblast, Donetsk People's Republic, Kemerovo Oblast, Krasnodar Krai, Lipetsk Oblast, Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Orenburg Oblast, Oryol Oblast, Perm Krai, Primorsky Krai, Republic of Adygea, Republic of Buryatia, Komi Republic, Republic of Crimea, Mari El Republic, Republic of Mordovia, Republic of Tatarstan, Rostov Oblast, Samara Oblast, Saint Petersburg, Saratov Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Stavropol Krai, Tver Oblast, Tomsk Oblast, Udmurt Republic, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Kherson Oblast, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Chuvash Republic, Yaroslavl Oblast.
As part of the qualifying round of the competition on the domestic engineering simulator Geoscan, participants completed a task to create an algorithm for finding the optimal path. Scanning of forest terrain using UAS and building a route for a ground robot from point A to point B was carried out in stages. Regulations and protocols for all stages of the competition are published on the official website of the competition: https://parma-bas.ru/doc
In the Russian Cup final, participants are given two in-person days to prepare – April 25 and 26, 2025. On April 27, 2025, the competition will be held in three rounds in each division. According to the regulations, participants compete in pairs, with four winners from each division advancing to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, the competition is also held in pairs. The two strongest opponents in each division meet in the final. The tasks will become more difficult in each round.
The event will include plenary discussion "Personnel for achieving technological leadership in the UAS industry", where invited experts will exchange forecasts, ideas and experience of practical solutions and discuss the development of the professional education system to develop highly professional personnel whose competencies and knowledge should meet the goals of the country's technological leadership in the field of UAS. Representatives of federal and regional authorities, commercial and state players in the unmanned aircraft systems market, developers of IT solutions for UAS, who are customers of personnel, are invited to participate in the discussion. Official website of the competition: https://parma-bas.ru
Sports programming – is a new kind of intellectual sport. Competitions include solving a set of problems or one problem: writing a program in one of the programming languages in a limited time mode, in the corresponding segment of the IT industry. Sports programming was officially recognized as a sport on April 12, 2022.
BAS programming is one of the five disciplines of competitive programming (along with algorithmic, product, robotic programming and information security). Within the framework of this discipline, the code is written for the autonomous flight of a drone or a swarm of drones, as well as the execution of assigned tasks in the conditions of a competitive testing ground.
Federation of Sports Programming (FSP) — a public sports organization that develops and popularizes sports programming in Russia, holds all-Russian competitions. The FSP is also involved in the formation of national teams, training and certification of sports judges, accreditation of venues, preparation of methodological materials, educational projects, development of clubs and sections in all five areas of sports programming. The Federation has 89 active representative offices in the regions. https://fsp-russia.com
Perm regional Federation of Sports Programming (PC FSP) – representative office of the Federation in the Kama region. It is one of the most active FSP operators, organizing high-level competitions in all five areas. In 2025, the FSP PC in the BAS direction organizes two types of competitions in Perm: April 25-27, 2025, the Russian Cup in BAS programming "Parma-BAS" and November 4-9, 2025, the First Russian Championship in BAS programming. https://vk.com/fsppk
Contacts of the press service of the Perm Regional Federation of Sports Programming: perm@fsp-russia.ru
