The opening ceremony of the 11th Caucasian Mathematical Olympiad was held on March 13 at Adyghe State University. As one of the largest international mathematics competitions for schoolchildren, this event attracted over 150 participants from 13 countries and 21 regions of Russia.

The competition is being conducted in a hybrid format. In-person participants include students from Turkey, Armenia, Uzbekistan, and Abkhazia. They will be joined online by their peers from the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Peru, and the Republic of Belarus. 

Russia will be represented by high school students from the Astrakhan, Volgograd, Kurgan, Penza, Rostov, Samara, and Saratov regions; the Krasnodar and Stavropol territories; the Donetsk People's Republic; Karachay-Cherkessia; the Lugansk People's Republic; Adygea; Dagestan; Kalmykia; Crimea; North Ossetia-Alania; Ingushetia; Chechnya; the Federal Territory "Sirius"; and the city of Sevastopol.

The Olympiad is consistently organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Adygea, the Caucasian Mathematical Center at Adyghe State University, the Republican School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and the Polaris-Adygea Educational Center. 

The opening ceremony was held in the concert hall of Adyghe State University and served as the highlight of the first day of the Olympiad. During the event, the Olympiad tree was illuminated amidst a solemn and festive atmosphere.

Participants were also welcomed by Viktor Orlov, Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers and Minister of Finance of the Republic of Adygea; Igor Terziyan, Advisor to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Representative Office in Krasnodar; and members of the Olympiad Coordination Council—Nikolai Andreev, Kirill Sukhov, Nazar Agakhanov, and Pavel Kozhevnikov.