USSR Chess Championship
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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) Kasparov, Garry / Psakhis, Lev "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,Tblisi) 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, Isaac "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) Verlisnky, Boris
- 1927 (5th,Moscow) Bohatirchuk, Fedor / Romanovsky, Peter "ex aequo"
- 1925 (4th,Leningrad) Bogoljubow, Efim
- 1924 (3rd,Moscow) Bogoljubow, Efim
- 1923 (2nd,Petrograd) Romanovsky, Peter
- 1920 (1st,Moscow) Alekhine, Alexander
Most 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
