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Olga Semenova Tyan Shanskaya

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Country
  
Soviet Union

Title
  
Woman FIDE Master

Name
  
Olga Tyan-Shanskaya


Full name
  
Olga Izmajlovna Semenova Tyan-Shanskaya (Ol'ga Izmailovna Semyonova-Tyan-SHanskaya)

Born
  
9 September 1911 Saint Petersburg (
1911-09-09
)

Died
  
4 November 1970(1970-11-04) (aged 59) Leningrad

Olga Izmajlovna Semenova Tyan-Shanskaya (Russian: Ольга Измайловна Семёнова-Тян-Шанская; 9 September 1911 – 4 November 1970) was a Soviet chess player.

She was born in Saint Petersburg, a niece of the Russian geographer Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky. She learned to play chess at the age of 18; four years later she won the Leningrad city women's chess championship. She played in nine Women's Soviet Championships, winning two (1934 and 1936). In 1937 she took 2nd–3rd place, and in 1953 3rd–5th place.

She died in Leningrad.

References

Olga Semenova Tyan-Shanskaya Wikipedia