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.
# | Year | Place | Winner[1][2] | Score |
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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 |
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