diff --git a/gensim/continuous_integration/appveyor/requirements.txt b/gensim/continuous_integration/appveyor/requirements.txt
index 444d01d..bdfbae8 100644
--- a/gensim/continuous_integration/appveyor/requirements.txt
+++ b/gensim/continuous_integration/appveyor/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 # of the rackspace folder instead of trying to install from more recent
 # source tarball published on PyPI
 numpy==1.9.3
-scipy==0.16.0
+scipy==1.10.0
 cython
 six >= 1.5.0
 smart_open >= 1.2.1