USSR Chess Championship

Winner list:
* 1991 (58th, Moscow) Minasian, Artashes
* 1990 (57th, Leningrad) Beliavsky, Alexander / Yudasin, Leonid / Bareev, Evgeny / Vyzmanavin, Alexey "ex aequo"
* 1989 (56th, Odessa) Vaganian, Rafael
* 1988 (55th, Moscow) Karpov, Anatoly / Kasparov, Garry "ex aequo"
* 1987 (54th, Minsk) Beliavsky, Alexander
* 1986 (53rd, Kiev) Tseshkovsky, Vitaly
* 1985 (52nd, Riga) Gavrikov, Viktor / Gurevich, Mikhail / Chernin, Alexander "ex aequo"
* 1984 (51st, Lvov) Sokolov, Andrei
* 1983 (50th, Moscow) Karpov, Anatoly
* 1981 (49th, Frunze) Psakhis, Lev / Kasparov, Garry "ex aequo"
* 1980 (48th, Vilnius) Psakhis, Lev / Beliavsky, Alexander "ex aequo"
* 1979 (47th, Minsk) Geller, Efim
* 1978 (46th, Tbilisi) Tal, Mikhail / Tseshkovsky, Vitaly "ex aequo"
* 1977 (45th, Leningrad) Gulko, Boris / Dorfman, Iosif "ex aequo"
* 1976 (44th, Moscow) Karpov, Anatoly
* 1975 (43rd, Erevan) Petrosian, Tigran
* 1974 (42nd, Leningrad) Beliavsky, Alexander / Tal, Mikhail "ex aequo"
* 1973 (41st, Moscow) Spassky, Boris
* 1972 (40th, Baku) Tal, Mikhail
* 1971 (39th, Leningrad) Savon, Vladimir
* 1970 (38th, Riga) Korchnoi, Viktor
* 1969 (37th, Moscow) Petrosian, Tigran
* 1968/1969 (36th, Alma Ata) Polugaevsky, Lev
* 1967 (35th, Kharkov) Polugaevsky, Lev / Tal, Mikhail "ex aequo"
* 1966 (34th, Tbilisi) Stein, Leonid
* 1965 (33rd, Tallinn) Stein, Leonid
* 1964/1965 (32nd, Kiev) Korchnoi, Viktor
* 1963 (31st, Leningrad) Stein, Leonid
* 1962 (30th, Erevan) Korchnoi, Viktor
* 1961 (29th, Baku) Spassky, Boris
* 1961 (28th, Moscow) Petrosian, Tigran
* 1960 (27th, Leningrad) Korchnoi, Viktor
* 1959 (26th, Tbilisi) Petrosian, Tigran
* 1958 (25th, Riga) Tal, Mikhail
* 1957 (24th, Moscow) Tal, Mikhail
* 1956 (23rd, Leningrad) Taimanov, Mark
* 1955 (22nd, Moscow) Geller, Efim
* 1953 (21st, Kiev) Averbakh, Yuri
* 1952 (20th, Moscow) Botvinnik, Mikhail
* 1951 (19th, Moscow) Keres, Paul
* 1950 (18th, Moscow) Keres, Paul
* 1949 (17th, Moscow) Bronstein, David / Smyslov, Vassily "ex aequo"
* 1948 (16th, Moscow) Bronstein, David / Kotov, Alexander "ex aequo"
* 1947 (15th, Leningrad) Keres, Paul
* 1945 (14th, Moscow) Botvinnik, Mikhail
* 1944 (13th, Moscow) Botvinnik, Mikhail
* 1940 (12th, Moscow) Lilienthal, Andrei / Bondarevsky, Igor "ex aequo"
* 1939 (11th, Leningrad) Botvinnik, Mikhail
* 1937 (10th, Tbilisi) Levenfish, Grigory
* 1934 (9th, Leningrad) Levenfish, Grigory / Rabinovich, Ilya "ex aequo"
* 1933 (8th, Leningrad) Botvinnik, Mikhail
* 1931 (7th, Moscow) Botvinnik, Mikhail
* 1929 (6th, Odessa) Verlinsky, Boris
* 1927 (5th, Moscow) Bohatyrchuk, Fedor / Romanovsky, Peter "ex aequo"
* 1925 (4th, Leningrad) Bogoljubow, Efim
* 1924 (3rd, Moscow) Bogoljubow, Efim
* 1923 (2nd, Petrograd) Romanovsky, Peter
* 1920 (1st, Moscow) Alekhine, AlexanderMost wins:
*6 titles: Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal
*4 titles: Tigran Petrosian, Viktor Korchnoi, Alexander Beliavsky
*3 titles: Paul Keres, Leonid Stein, Lev Polugaevsky, Anatoly Karpov

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