The Women's Soviet Chess Championship was played in the Soviet Union from 1927 through 1991 to determine the women's

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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

: Winners of more titles * 5 titles :

Valentina Borisenko Valentina Mikhaylovna Borisenko (née Belova; ; Cherepovets, 28 January 1920 – Saint Petersburg, 6 March 1993) was a Soviet chess player. She was a five-time winner of the Women's Soviet Championship: 1945, 1955, 1957, 1960, and 1961 (a recor ...

Nona Gaprindashvili Nona Gaprindashvili ( ka, ნონა გაფრინდაშვილი; born 3 May 1941) is a Georgian chess Grandmaster. Noted for her aggressive style of play, she was the women's world chess champion from 1962 to 1978, and in 1978 ...

* 4 titles :

Olga Rubtsova Olga Nikolayevna Rubtsova (; 20 August 1909 – 13 December 1994) was a Soviet chess player and the fourth women's world chess champion. In 2015, she was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame. Career Rubtsova won the Soviet Women's Champ ...

Nana Ioseliani Nana Ioseliani ( ka, ნანა იოსელიანი; born 12 February 1962) is a Georgian chess player. FIDE awarded her the Woman Grandmaster title in 1980 and the International Master title in 1993. Biography Already in 1978 she w ...

* 3 titles :

Nana Alexandria Nana Alexandria ( ka, ნანა გიორგის ასული ალექსანდრია, ''Nana Giorgis asuli Aleksandria''; born 13 October 1949) is a Georgian chess player. A three-time Soviet women's champion, she was the c ...

Elisaveta Bykova Elisaveta Ivanovna Bykova (or ''Elisabeth Bykova'', Russian: Елизаве́та Ива́новна Бы́кова; 4 November 1913 – 8 March 1989) was a Soviet chess player and twice Women's World Chess Champion, from 1953 until 1956, and ...

Irina Levitina Irina Solomonovna Levitina (born June 8, 1954) is a former Soviet and current American chess and bridge player. In chess, she has been a World Championship Candidate in 1984 and gained the title Woman Grandmaster. In contract bridge she has won ...

, Larissa Volpert,

Kira Zvorykina Kira Alekseyevna Zvorykina (, ; September 29, 1919 – September 6, 2014) was a Soviet chess player who spent many years living in Belarus. She was a three-time winner of the Women's Soviet Championship. In 2018, she was inducted into the World C ...

* 2 titles :

Anna Akhsharumova Anna Akhsharumova (; born 9 January 1957, Moscow) is a Woman Grandmaster of chess. Chess career She won the Women's Soviet Chess Championship in 1976 and 1984, and won the 1987 U.S. Women's Chess Championship with a perfect score. She playe ...

, Svetlana Matveeva, Maaja Ranniku, Olga Semenova Tyan-Shanskaya

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* Soviet Chess Championship {{Top sport leagues in the Soviet Union Chess national championships Women's chess national championships

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Recurring sporting events established in 1927 Recurring events disestablished in 1991 1927 establishments in the Soviet Union 1991 disestablishments in the Soviet Union

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