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

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.