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Abstract: This article examines project-based work in literature and its role and importance in training Olympiad participants. It describes four literary projects tested within the framework of literary Olympiad programs at the Sirius (Sochi) and Vzlet (Moscow Region) education centers: a Literary Advertising Campaign (2018), an Auction of Literary Items (2022), the Tolstoy Universe website project (2020), and a Festival of Fictional Theaters (2023). The article provides technical specifications for each project, analyzes student performance, and contains examples of children’s achievements. The primary goal of the study is to identify the range of skills and habits that are developed through project-based work and to correlate them with the competences required by the students to complete Olympiad assignments at the regional and final stages of the All-Russian School Olympiad. Thus, an advertising campaign project for a real estate agency or the Talon restaurant required schoolchildren to examine the subject matter of certain literary works and the cultural context of the era, and to pay attention to the author’s semantic accents in the description of a house or the menu of a literary character. The preparation of literary material for the Festival of Fictional Theaters required “translating” prose text (texts by Gogol, Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Pushkin were offered) into characters’ lines and author’s stage directions, thereby helping to understand the specificity of representing events in epic narratives and dramatic texts and scenarios. The creation of Tolstoy’s website required arranging heterogeneous materials (diaries, works of fiction, research materials, photographs, educational assignments, educational mini-lectures, elements of by-lateral interaction with site visitors, etc.) in a unified semantic space. The analysis showed that project work helps develop the skill to quickly process large blocks of information, conceptualize it, select what is necessary and sufficient and discard what is unnecessary or unreliable, organize data to solve a given problem, integrate it into new literary and cultural contexts, consider the expectations of the target audience, and find compelling arguments in support of one’s own position. All these skills are crucial for a student’s success in a literature Olympiad.

About the author(s) :

Tatiana G. Kuchina

Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushinsky (Yaroslavl, Russia)

ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1837-8429

Publication Timeline:

Date of receipt: 12.09.2025; date of publication: 29.12.2025

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