1. Ossip Bernstein (1882)

Russian Chess Player

Russian chess legend who was at the height of his career before rankings were officially adopted and who was one of the first official Grandmasters in the game.

2. Igor Bondarevsky (1913)

Russian Chess Player

Soviet chess Grandmaster who is best known for coaching World Chess Champion Boris Spassky.

3. Semyon Furman (1920)

Russian Chess Player

Soviet chess player and coach, best known for training many of the world's top players.

4. Yuri Balashov (1949)

Russian Chess Player

A chess master who has been considered one of Lithuania's greatest players.

5. Vladimir Malaniuk (1957)

Russian Chess Player

Ukrainian chess master who was perhaps better known for his colorful personality than his abilities over the board.  

6. Yuri Yakovich (1962)

Russian Chess Player

A Russian chess Grandmaster who also became a published chess author.

7. Yury Dokhoian (1964)

Russian Chess Player

A Russian chess master who was best known for his career as a trainer and coach.

8. Tatiana Shadrina (1974)

Russian Chess Player

Tatiana Shadrina is a Russian chess player and a woman grandmaster. She played in the Women's World Chess Championship 2010 she made it to the second round where she was...

9. Aleksey Goganov (1991)

Russian Chess Player

Alexey Goganov is a Russian chess Grandmaster. He won the norm of it at the 81st Saint Petersburg Chess Championship in 2008 and then won the title itself at the...

10. Semen Dvoirys (1958)

Russian Chess Player

Semen Dvoirys is a Russian chess Grandmaster. In 2001 he tied for 1st–2nd with Alexey Korotylev at Geneva Open. In 2010 he won the Izmailov Memorial in Tomsk and tied...

11. Georgy Lisitsin (1909)

Russian Chess Player

Georgy Lisitsin was a Russian chess master. He won thrice Leningrad City Chess Championship in 1933/34 1939 and 1947. He participated many times in USSR Chess Championship. His best result...

12. Alexander Malevinsky (1950)

Russian Chess Player

Alexander Malevinsky was a Russian chess master who won the Baltic Chess Championship in 1986.

13. Evgeny Gleizerov (1963)

Russian Chess Player

Evgeny Gleizerov is a Russian chess Grandmaster. In 2001 he tied for 1st–3rd with Stanislav Voitsekhovsky and Michal Krasenkow at Barlinek. He tied for 3rd–6th with David Berczes Yuriy Kuzubov...

14. Nukhim Rashkovsky (1946)

Russian Chess Player

Nukhim Nikolayevich Rashkovsky is a chess Grandmaster and coach from Russia. His first meaningful chess moves were played at the Sverdlovsk Palace of Pioneers one of many training schools for...

15. Aleksandra Goryachkina (1998)

Russian Chess Player

Aleksandra Goryachkina is a Russian chess player. She is a woman grandmaster and won this title at the age of only 13. She also won the World Junior Chess Championship...

16. Nikolai Georgiyevich Kopilov (1919)

Russian Chess Player

Nikolai Georgiyevich Kopilov was a Russian chess player from Novonikolayevsk. He worked as a lecturer in a higher technical training institute. He had three sons. He became a master...

17. Nikolai Grigoriev (1895)

Russian Chess Player

Nikalai Dmitrievich Grigoriev was a Russian chess player and a composer of endgame studies. He was born on 14 August 1895 in Moscow and he died there in 1938. His...

18. Carl Jaenisch (1813)

Russian Chess Player

Carl Friedrich Andreyevich von Jaenisch was a Finnish and Russian chess player and theorist. In the 1840s he was among the top players in the world.

19. Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky (1894)

Russian Chess Player

Alexander Fyodorovich Ilyin known with the party name Zhenevsky the Genevan because he joined the Bolshevik group of Russian émigrés while exiled in that city was a Soviet chess master...

20. Veniamin Sozin (1896)

Russian Chess Player

Veniamin Innokentevich Sozin was a Russian chess master author and theoretician.

21. Nikolay Novotelnov (1911)

Russian Chess Player

Nikolay Novotelnov was Russian chess International Master and author. He was champion of Leningrad and won Russian Federated Republics championship in 1947. He was 6th at the Chigorin Memorial Tournament...

22. Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz (1876)

Russian Chess Player

Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz was a Russian and Soviet chess master. Rosenkrantz was born in Libava then in the Courland Governorate of the Russian Empire.

23. Alexander Solovtsov (1847)

Russian Chess Player

Alexander Vladimirovich Solovtsov was a Russian chess master. He tied for 3rd-4th and drew a match for the third place with Emanuel Schiffers at Sankt Petersburg 1878/79. Solovtsov took part...

24. Igor Zaitsev (1938)

Russian Chess Player

Igor Arkadyevich Zaitsev is a Russian grandmaster of chess. He is of Armenian descent.

25. Lidia Tomnikova (1995)

Russian Chess Player

Lidia Tomnikova is a Russian chess player. She is the current U-18 Girls' World Chess Champion see World Youth Chess Championship.

26. Aleksandr Mitrofanovich Levin (1871)

Russian Chess Player

Aleksandr Mitrofanovich Levin was a Russian chess master. He twice shared 1st with Mikhail Chigorin in St. Petersburg in 1900 and 1902. He tied for 11-12th at Hannover 1902.

27. Leopold Mitrofanov (1932)

Russian Chess Player

Leopold Adamovich Mitrofanov was a Russian chess composer an International Judge of Chess Composition and an International Master of Chess Composition. He was born in Leningrad and by profession was...

28. Samuil Vainshtein (1894)

Russian Chess Player

Samuil Osipovich Vainshtein was a Russian chess master organizer publisher and editor. In July/August 1914 he was playing in Mannheim at (the 19th DSB Congress when it was interrupted...

29. Vladimir Nenarokov (1880)

Russian Chess Player

Vladimir Ivanovich Nenarokov was a Russian chess master and theoretician. Born in Moscow he was one of the strongest masters in his home town around 1900. In 1899 he tied...

30. Nikolai Zubarev (1894)

Russian Chess Player

Nikolai Zubarev was a Russian chess master. During World War I he won ahead of Peter Yurdansky at Moscow 1915 and tied for 4-5th at Moscow 1916. After the war...

31. Vitaly Chekhover (1908)

Russian Chess Player

Vitaly Chekhover was a Soviet chess player and chess composer. He was also a pianist.

32. Maxim Turov (1979)

Russian Chess Player

Maxim Turov is a Russian chess Grandmaster. In 2005 and 2011 he won the Dutch Open Championship in Dieren. In 2009 came second in Doroshkevich Memorial first in Eforie Nord...

33. Vladimirs Petrovs (1907)

Russian Chess Player

Vladimirs Petrovs or Vladimir Petrov was a Latvian chess master. He was born in Riga Latvia. Though he learned the game of chess relatively late at age thirteen Petrovs made...

34. Leonid Kubbel (1891)

Russian Chess Player

Leonid Ivanovich Kubbel was a Russian composer of chess endgame studies and problems. He was born in Leningrad at the end of 1891 or beginning of 1892 and died in...

35. Andreas Ascharin (1843)

Russian Chess Player

Andreas Ascharin was a Baltic German-Russian chess master. Ascharin's father was Russian his mother was from a Baltic German family. He read law in Dorpat. Between 1875 and 1879 he...

36. R.K. Kieseritzky (1870)

Russian Chess Player

R. K. Kieseritzky was a Russian chess master. He took 11th at Barmen 1905 competed in the Fifth All-Russian Masters’ Tournament at Lodz 1907/08 and in the Second Winter...

37. Peter Romanovsky (1892)

Russian Chess Player

Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky was a Russian chess International Master International Arbiter and author.

38. Boris Maliutin (1883)

Russian Chess Player

Boris Evgenievich Maliutin was a Russian chess master. He played many tournaments in Saint Petersburg.

39. Ilya Kan (1909)

Russian Chess Player

Ilya Abramovich Kan was a Russian / Soviet International Master of Chess. He played ten times in Soviet Championships. In 1929 he took 3rd in Odessa. In 1931 he took...

40. Abram Model (1895)

Russian Chess Player

Abram Yakovlevich Model was a Russian chess master although he had his master title taken away by the Soviet chess authorities due to lack of results. Abram Yakovlevich Model was...

41. Vitaly Tseshkovsky (1944)

Russian Chess Player

Vitaly Valerianovich Tseshkovsky was a Russian chess Grandmaster and a former champion of the USSR. Tseshkovsky was born in Omsk. He was awarded the International Master title in 1973 and...

42. Abram Rabinovich (1878)

Russian Chess Player

Abram Rabinovich was a Lithuanian–Russian chess master.

43. Alexey Troitsky (1866)

Russian Chess Player

Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky or Alexei or Troitzky is considered to have been one of the greatest composers of chess endgame studies. He is widely regarded as the founder of...

44. Benjamin Blumenfeld (1884)

Russian Chess Player

Benjamin Blumenfeld was a Russian chess master. He was born in Volkovysk Russian Empire. In 1905/06 he tied for second/third with Akiba Rubinstein behind Gersz Salwe in St. Petersburg. In...

45. Vyacheslav Osnos (1935)

Russian Chess Player

Vyacheslav Vulfovich Osnos was a Russian chess player trainer and author. He was awarded the International Master title in 1965 and was champion of Leningrad in 1971 and 1980.

46. Sergei Shipov (1966)

Russian Chess Player

Sergei Shipov is a Russian chess grandmaster with a peak FIDE rating of 2662 chess journalist and author. He is the man behind the popular chess website crestbook. com where...

47. Aleksei Fyodorovich Goncharov (1879)

Russian Chess Player

Aleksei Fyodorovich Goncharov was a Russian chess master. He won twice Moscow City Chess Championship in 1901 and 1909. He also tied for 2nd–3rd in 1899 took 4th in 1900/01...

48. Nikolai Riumin (1908)

Russian Chess Player

Nikolai Nikolaevich Riumin was a Russian chess master one of the strongest Soviet players of the 1930s. Riumin was Moscow Champion in 1931 1933/34 and 1935. He played in...

49. Evgeniy Najer (1977)

Russian Chess Player

Evgeniy Najer is a Russian chess Grandmaster. In 2002 he shared the victory of the U. S. Open Chess Championship with Gennadi Zaichik and in 2003 won the Moscow City...

50. Vsevolod Rauzer (1908)

Russian Chess Player

Vsevolod Alfredovich Rauzer was a Soviet Ukrainian chess master known for his great contributions to chess opening theory especially of the Sicilian Defence.