This years Championship took place in St. Petersburg during the ExpoHoReCa exhibition.
Just to give an idea of how huge Russia is, some of the participants travelled for 19 hours by air.
Going from Sakhalin via Moscow to St. Petersburg.

There were a lot of dedicated barista competing. The Baristas are still improving and supporting one another by exchanging knowledge about brewing and serving good coffee.

The top 3 were:
1st Kira Malchenko
2nd Elena Guschina
3rd Vladislava Miladinova