Category
page 1Soviet chess writers
Garry Kasparov
Russian chess grandmaster and activist
Anatoly Karpov
Russian chess player
Mikhail Botvinnik
Soviet chess player
Tigran Petrosian
Soviet Armenian Grandmaster and World Chess Champion
Paul Keres
Estonian chess player and sportsperson (1916–1975)

David Bronstein
Soviet chess grandmaster

Yuri Averbakh
Russian chess grandmaster and author (1922–2022)
Efim Geller
Soviet chess player (1925–1998)

Mark Taimanov
Soviet chess player (1926–2016)

Salo Flohr
Czech chess player, arbiter, theoretician, organiser and writer (1908–1983)
Isaac Boleslavsky
Soviet chess player (1919–1977)
Lev Polugaevsky
chess player (1934–1995)
Alexander Kotov
Soviet chess player (1913–1981)
Rashid Nezhmetdinov
Soviet chess player
Grigory Levenfish
Soviet chess player (1889–1961)
Vladimir Bagirov
Soviet chess player (1936-2000)
Peter Romanovsky
Russian chess player (1892–1964)
Alexey Troitsky
Russian chess player (1866-1942)
Mikhail Gurevich
Soviet-Belgian chess player
Genrikh Kasparyan
Armenian chess player (1910-1995)
Vladas Mikėnas
Estonian-Lithuanian chess player and referee (1910-1992)
Viacheslav Ragozin
Soviet chess grandmaster
Evgeny Agrest
Soviet-born Swedish chess grandmaster
Leonid Shamkovich
American chess player of Russian origin (1923–2005)
Alexey Suetin
chess player (1926–2001)
Ilya Rabinovich
Russian chess player (1891-1942)
Vladimir Alatortsev
Soviet chess player (1909–1987)
Vasily Panov
Russian chess player (1906–1973)
Nikolai Krogius
Russian chess player (1930–2022)
Vitaly Chekhover
Russian chess player (1908-1965)

Gia Nadareishvili
Soviet chess player (1921–1991)
Vladimir Zagorovsky
Russian chess grandmaster (1925–1994)
Alexander Konstantinopolsky
chess player
Alexander Roshal
Soviet chess writer (1936-2007)
Sergey Belavenets
Russian chess player
Konstantin Chernyshov
chess player
Grigory Sanakoev
Russian chess player (1935–2021)
Ilya Kan
Russian chess player (1909–1978)

Alexander Shakarov
Soviet chess player

Mark Liburkin
Soviet chess composer (1910-1953)