The New England Olympiada of Spoken Russian is an annual event that focused on space exploration as one of its topics this year. Speech topics and poem recitation events included an option of space exploration themes, and a space-themed sticker context. MIT students Richard Colwell and Tyrone Davis both received awards in the poetry recitation category. (Watch videos of their poetry recitations in Russian below.)

Below: Tyrone Davis recites “Blue Meteorite” by Rooman Sef, for his entry in the in the New England Olympiada of Spoken Russian.

Below: Richard Colwell recites “I Loved You,” by Aleksandr Pushkin, for his entry in the in the New England Olympiada of Spoken Russian.