On November 23, 2023, the grand opening of the Republican Student Olympiad in Surgery with international participation took place at VSMU. The rector of the university, Alexey Chukanov, addressed the participants with a welcoming speech. Within of 2 days the teams from BSMU (Minsk), VSMU, GSMU (Gomel), GrSMU (Grodno), RNRMU (Moscow), SSMU (Smolensk), Siberian State Medical University (Tomsk) will compete in various surgical specialties.