Euro-Asian Astronomical Society The International Astronomy Olympiad . . . . . The 1st Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia       4–11. XII. 2005.

The 1^st Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad will held in Siberia (Asian part of Russian Federation) on December 4-11, 2005. It will be open a month later than the 10^th IAO in Beijing) has been closed. Among three Siberian cities which were ready to organise the Olympiad city of Irkutsk (near Baikal lake) won this right.

Siberian Organizing Committee was kindly invite countries of the region to this Olympiad, which to be held as a regional programme in line with the International Astronomy Olympiad. The main points for the teams formation were mentioned in the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd announcements, the deadlines were mentioned in the 3^rd announcement.

The following teams will take part in the Olympiad:

CN		China
FE		Far East (Russia, east-asian part)
ID		Indonesia
KR		Korea
KZ		Kazakhstan
SB		Siberia (Russia, central-asian part)
UR		East Ural (Russia, west-asian part)
IK		Irkutsk region (host)

That's a pity teams of Armenia, Iran, Singapore and observers from Taiwan team that planned to participate did not find such a possibility.

According to the last news, the main points of the programme of the Olympiad will be the following:

A few photos of preparing the venue:

Hall for rounds

National style house for living

The official APAO e-mail is a p a o [a] l i s t . r u .

Founding of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad

The Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad 2005 - results

Climate on Baikal lake

The International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO)

Asian-Pacific and Asian Olympiads on other subjects

Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO)
ISSP of Russ. Acad. Sci., Institute avenue 15, 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russia.

URL: http://www.issp.ac.ru/iao/apao/
e-mail: gavrilov@issp.ac.ru
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