Sergey Berlov

Russian mathematician and mathematics educator in Saint Petersburg. Teaches at FML No. 239 (since 1993), which he graduated in 1988 and which he represented (as part of the USSR team) at the 1988 IMO, winning silver. PhD in physics and mathematics; jury member of the All-Russian Mathematical Olympiad and coach of the Russian IMO team.

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• Born 25 April; a 1988 graduate of Physics and Mathematics Lyceum No. 239 and has taught mathematics there continuously since 1993 - the same school whose team he represented at the 1988 IMO.
• Public academic email [contact omitted] listed on his Math-Net.Ru person page; credited there with 9 publications (8 scientific articles), including work on graph chromatic number and cycle counts.
• Coaches the Russian national team for the IMO and has authored/co-authored many Saint Petersburg olympiad problem books (with S. Ivanov, K. Kokhas, F. Petrov, A. Khrabrov), making him a central figure in Russian olympiad training.
• His IMO 1988 score was 30 points (7,7,2,7,7,0), good for silver, on a USSR team that placed 1st overall at the 29th IMO in Canberra.
• Saint Petersburg's Fontanka outlet names Berlov and Dmitry Rostovsky as the coaches behind Lyceum No. 239 pupils who swept the podium at Russia's largest team math tournament (Nov 2021), confirming his active role developing national IMO candidates as recently as 2022.
• Recipient of the badge 'For the Humanization of the Saint Petersburg School'; teacher of additional education, indicating decades of recognized pedagogical impact.
• Signed the 2022 open letter of Russian mathematicians against the war in Ukraine under his professional identity 'Sergey Berlov, Ph.D., FML No. 239', a public political stance that associates him with the anti-war segment of the Russian academic community.