OREANDA-NEWS  Russian schoolchildren have won five gold and two silver medals at the Avicenna International Biological Olympiad, according to the Telegram channel of the Ministry of Education of Russia.

"The Russian national team won 5 gold and 2 silver medals at the Avicenna International Biological Olympiad," the message says.

It is clarified that the competition was held in Uzbekistan, Russia was represented by seven high school students, all of them took prizes.

The head of the Russian national team was Yevgeny Shilov, a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Biology at Moscow State University.