Name Mark Stolberg | Role Chess master | |
Mark Moiseevich Stolberg (born 1922, Rostov-on-Don - died 1942, Novorossiysk) was a Russian chess master.
Stolberg won the Rostov-on-Don City championship in 1938. The next year he took 2nd in a Soviet master candidates tournament. In 1940, he shared 1st with Eduard Gerstenfeld in Kiev (the 12th USSR-ch semi-final), and tied for 13-16th in Moscow (the 12th USSR Chess Championship won jointly by Andor Lilienthal and Igor Bondarevsky). In June 1941, he was in 4th place in Rostov-on-Don (the 13th USSR-ch semi-final), when the German attack on the Soviet Union interrupted the event.
He entered the Soviet Army at the end of 1940, and disappeared on 16 May 1942 in the battle of Malaya Zemlya (lit. "Minor Land"), a part of Novorossiysk on Russia's Black Sea coast against German troops.