USSR Women's Chess Championship

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[1][2]	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[3]	12 / 17
18	1958	Kharkov	Larissa Volpert[4]	14 / 21
19	1959	Lipetsk	Larissa Volpert	12 / 18
20	1960	Riga	Valentina Borisenko[5]	13 / 18
21	1961	Baku	Valentina Borisenko	13½ / 19
22	1962	Riga	Tatiana Zatulovskaya	13 / 19
23	1963	Baku	Maaja Ranniku[6]	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[7]	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[8]	12 / 17
42	1982	Tallinn	Nana Ioseliani	12 / 17
43	1983	Vilnius	Nona Gaprindashvili	12½ / 17
44	1984	Kiev	Svetlana Matveeva  Anna Akhsharumova[9]	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

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.

Related pages

• Soviet Chess Championship