USSR Women's Chess Championship

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The Women's Soviet Chess Championship was played in the Soviet Union from 1927 through 1991 to determine the women's chess national champion.

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The championship was not played on a regular basis in the years 1927–1937 and there was a break during World War II. From 1950 onward it was played regularly all years.

List of winners

 #  Year PlaceWinner [1] [2] Score
  11927 Moscow  Olga Rubtsova
8½ / 10   
  21931 Moscow Olga Rubtsova
7½ / 9   
  31934  Leningrad   Olga Semenova Tyan-Shanskaya  
7 / 9   
  41936 Leningrad Olga Semenova Tyan-Shanskaya
9½ / 11   
  51937  Rostov-on-Don  Olga Rubtsova
12½ / 15   
  61945 Moscow  Valentina Borisenko
7½ / 9   
  71946 Moscow  Elisaveta Bykova
14 / 16   
  81947 Moscow Elisaveta Bykova
12 / 15   
  91948 Moscow Olga Rubtsova
13 / 17   
 101950  Riga  Elisaveta Bykova
12½ / 15   
 111951  Kiev   Kira Zvorykina
11½ / 17   
 121952  Tbilisi   Lyudmila Rudenko
13 / 17   
 131953 Rostov-on-Don Kira Zvorykina
13 / 17   
 141954  Krasnodar   Larissa Volpert
14 / 19   
 151955  Sukhumi  Valentina Borisenko
13½ / 19   
 161956  Dnepropetrovsk  Kira Zvorykina
13½ / 17   
 171957  Vilnius  Valentina Borisenko [3]
12 / 17   
 181958  Kharkov  Larissa Volpert [4]
14 / 21   
 191959  Lipetsk  Larissa Volpert
12 / 18   
 201960 Riga Valentina Borisenko [5]
13 / 18   
 211961  Baku  Valentina Borisenko
13½ / 19   
 221962 Riga  Tatiana Zatulovskaya
13 / 19   
 231963 Baku  Maaja Ranniku [6]
14 / 19   
 241964 Tbilisi  Nona Gaprindashvili
15 / 19   
 251965  Beltsy   Valentina Kozlovskaya
13½ / 19   
 261966 Kiev  Nana Alexandria
14 / 19   
 271967  Sochi  Maaja Ranniku
11 / 13   
 281968  Ashkhabad  Nana Alexandria [7]
13½ / 19   
 291969  Gori  Nana Alexandria
15 / 19   
 301970 Beltsy  Alla Kushnir
14 / 19   
 311971 Sochi  Irina Levitina
14 / 19   
 321972  Tolyatti   Marta Litinskaya
12 / 19   
 331973 Tbilisi Nona Gaprindashvili
14 / 19   
 341974 Tbilisi  Elena Fatalibekova
14 / 18   
 351975  Frunze   Liudmila Belavenets
10 / 16   
 361976 Tbilisi  Anna Akhsharumova
12½ / 17   
 371977  Lvov   Maia Chiburdanidze
13 / 17   
 381978  Nikolayevsk   Lidia Semenova
12½ / 17   
 391979 Tbilisi Irina Levitina
12½ / 17   
 401980  Alma-Ata  Irina Levitina
12 / 15   
 411981  Ivano-Frankivsk   Nona Gaprindashvili
  Nana Ioseliani [8]
12 / 17   
 421982  Tallinn  Nana Ioseliani
12 / 17   
 431983 Vilnius Nona Gaprindashvili
12½ / 17   
 441984 Kiev  Svetlana Matveeva
 Anna Akhsharumova [9]
9½ / 15   
 451985  Yerevan  Nona Gaprindashvili
12½ / 17   
 461986 Frunze Nana Ioseliani
11½ / 16   
 471987 Tbilisi Nana Ioseliani
14½ / 19   
 481988 Alma-Ata  Julia Demina
12 / 17   
 491989  Volzhsky   Irina Chelushkina
12½ / 17   
 501990  Podolsk   Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant
13 / 16   
 511991 Lvov Svetlana Matveeva
13½ / 17   

Winners of more titles

Notes

  1. Anatoly Karpov, ed. (1990). Шахматы. Энциклопедический Словарь[Chess. Encyclopedic Dictionary] (in Russian). Sovetskaya Entsiklopediya. pp. 458–459, 613–614. ISBN   5-85270-005-3.
  2. Bartelski, Wojciech. "Women's Soviet Chess Championship summary". OlimpBase. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
  3. Valentina Borisenko won the title after a tiebreak match with Kira Zvorykina (2½ – ½ )
  4. Larissa Volpert won the title after a tiebreak match with Kira Zvorykina (2½ – 1½ )
  5. Valentina Borisenko won the title after a tiebreak match with Tatiana Zatulovskaya (4½ – 3½ )
  6. Maia Ranniku won the title after a tiebreak match with Tatiana Zatulovskaya (4–2)
  7. Nana Alexandria won the title after a tiebreak match with Alla Chaikovskaya (3½ – ½)
  8. The tiebreak match was not played.
  9. The tiebreak match was not played.

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