USSR Women's Chess Championship
Introduction The '''Women's Soviet Chess Championship''' was played in the Soviet Union from 1927 through 1991 to determine the women's chess national champion.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   Place  Winner  Score   1  1927    Moscow   Olga Rubtsova   8½  / 10       2  1931   Moscow    Olga Rubtsova   7½  / 9       3  1934   Leningrad   Olga Semenova Tyan-Shanskaya    7 / 9       4  1936   Leningrad     Olga Semenova Tyan-Shanskaya   9½  / 11        5  1937   Rostov-on-Don     Olga Rubtsova  12½  / 15         6  1945   Moscow    Valentina Borisenko  7½  / 9         7   1946  Moscow     Elisaveta Bykova  14 / 16       8  1947   Moscow   Elisaveta Bykova  12 / 15        9  1948   Moscow   Olga Rubtsova  13 / 17      10  1950   Riga   Elisaveta Bykova  12½  / 15      11  1951  Kiev   Kira Zvorykina   11½  / 17       12  1952   Tbilisi   Lyudmila Rudenko  13 / 17     13  1953   Rostov-on-Don   Kira Zvorykina   13 / 17       14  1954   Krasnodar   Larissa Volpert  14 / 19        15  1955   Sukhumi   Valentina Borisenko  13½  / 19      16  1956   Dnepropetrovsk   Kira Zvorykina  13½  / 17      17  1957   Vilnius   Valentina Borisenko   12 / 17      18  1958   Kharkov   Larissa Volpert  14 / 21       19  1959   Lipetsk   Larissa Volpert  12 / 18      20  1960   Riga   Valentina Borisenko  13 / 18       21  1961   Baku   Valentina Borisenko  13½  / 19      22  1962  Riga   Tatiana Zatulovskaya  13 / 19      23  1963   Baku    Maaja Ranniku    14 / 19       24  1964   Tbilisi   Nona Gaprindashvili  15 / 19      25  1965   Beltsy   Valentina Kozlovskaya  13½  / 19       26  1966   Kiev   Nana Alexandria 14 / 19      27  1967   Sochi   Maaja Ranniku  11 / 13       28  1968   Ashkhabad   Nana Alexandria  13½  / 19       29  1969   Gori   Nana Alexandria  15 / 19      30  1970   Beltsy   Alla Kushnir 14 / 19      31  1971   Sochi   Irina Levitina  14 / 19      32  1972   Tolyatti   Marta Litinskaya 12 / 19      33  1973   Tbilisi   Nona Gaprindashvili   14 / 19       34  1974   Tbilisi    Elena Fatalibekova  14 / 18       35  1975   Frunze  Liudmila Belavenets  10 / 16      36  1976   Tbilisi  Anna Akhsharumova  12½  / 17     37  1977   Lvov  Maia Chiburdanidze 13 / 17     38  1978   Nikolayevsk  Lidia Semenova  12½  / 17      39  1979   Tbilisi  Irina Levitina 12½  / 17         40  1980   Alma-Ata  Irina Levitina  12 / 15        41  1981   Ivano-Frankivsk    Nona Gaprindashvili   Nana Ioseliani  12 / 17      42  1982   Tallinn  Nana Ioseliani  12 / 17      43  1983   Vilnius  Nona Gaprindashvili  12½  / 17     44  1984   Kiev  Svetlana Matveeva   Anna Akhsharumova  9½  / 15      45  1985   Yerevan  Nona Gaprindashvili   12½  / 17     46  1986   Frunze  Nana Ioseliani  11½  / 16     47  1987   Tbilisi  Nana Ioseliani  14½  / 19     48  1988   Alma-Ata  Julia Demina  12 / 17     49  1989   Volzhsky   Irina Chelushkina  12½  / 17     50  1990   Podolsk   Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant  13 / 16     51  1991   Lvov  Svetlana Matveeva  13½  / 17     '''Winners of more titles'''* 5 titles : Valentina Borisenko, Nona Gaprindashvili * 4 titles : Olga Rubtsova, Nana Ioseliani* 3 titles : Nana Alexandria, Elisaveta Bykova, Irina Levitina, Larissa Volpert, Kira Zvorykina * 2 titles : Anna Akhsharumova, Svetlana Matveeva, Maaja Ranniku, Olga Semenova Tyan-Shanskaya
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Related pages * Soviet Chess Championship