Ukrainian Chess Championship

This is a list of all the winners of the Ukrainian Chess Championship, including those held when Ukraine was a Soviet republic and those held after Ukraine became independent. Players' names listed in parentheses indicate that the player won the tournament but did not receive the title since he was an outside competitor. The title went instead to the top-scoring Ukrainian.

By year

#	Year	City	Winner
1	1924	Kiev	Yakiv Vilner (1)
2	1925	Kharkiv	Yakiv Vilner (2)
3	1926	Odessa	Borys Verlinsky (1) & Mykhailo Marski (1)
4	1927	Poltava	(Olexiy Selezniov), Vsevolod Rauzer (1)
5	1928	Odessa	Yakiv Vilner (3) & Volodymyr Kirillov (1)
6	1931	Kharkiv	Abram Zamikhovsky (1)
7	1933	Kharkiv	Vsevolod Rauzer (2) & Volodymyr Kirillov (2)
8	1936	Kiev	Yosyp Pohrebyssky (1) & Petro Shumilin (1)
9	1937	Kiev	Fedir Bohatyrchuk (1)
10	1938	Kiev	Isaac Boleslavsky (1)
11	1939	Dnipropetrovsk	Isaac Boleslavsky (2)
12	1940	Kiev	Isaac Boleslavsky (3)
13	1944	Kiev	Borys Goldenov (1)
14	1945	Kiev	Anatoly Bannik (1)
15	1946	Kiev	Anatoly Bannik (2)
16	1947	Kiev	Olexiy Sokolsky (1)
17	1948	Kiev	Alexey Sokolsky (2)
18	1949	Odessa	Isaac Lipnitsky (1)
19	1950	Kiev	Yukhym Heller (1)
20	1951	Kiev	Anatoly Bannik (3)
21	1952	Kiev	Vladlen Zurakhov (1)
22	1953	Kiev	Yakiv Yukhtman (1)
23	1954	Kiev	Abram Khavin (1)
24	1955	Kiev	Anatoly Bannik (4)
25	1956	Kiev	Isaac Lipnitsky (2)
26	1957	Kiev	(Salo Flohr) (1), Yukhym Heller (2)
27	1958	Kiev	Yukhym Heller (3)
28	1959	Kiev	Yukhym Heller (4)
29	1960	Kiev	Leonid Stein (1)
30	1961	Kiev	Yuri Kots (1)
31	1962	Kiev	Leonid Stein (2)
32	1963	Kiev	Yuri Nikolayevsky (1)
33	1964	Kiev	Anatoly Bannik (5)
34	1965	Dnipropetrovsk	R. Goldstein (1)
35	1966	Kiev	Yuri Sakharov (1)
36	1967	Kiev	Valery Zhydkov (1) & Yuri Nikolayevsky (2)
37	1968	Kiev	Yuri Sakharov (2)
38	1969	Ivano-Frankivsk	Hennady Kuzmin (1) & Volodymyr Savon (1)
39	1970	Kiev	Volodymyr Tukmakov (1)
40	1971	Donetsk	Yuri Kots (2)
41	1972	Odessa	Lev Alburt (1)
42	1973	Dnipropetrovsk	Lev Alburt (2)
43	1974	Lviv	Lev Alburt (3)
44	1975	Dnipropetrovsk	Oleksandr Vaisman (1)
45	1976	Donetsk	Mykhailo Pidhayets (1)
46	1977	Zhytomyr	Yuri Nikolayevsky (3)
47	1978	Yalta	Kostiantyn Lerner (1)
48	1979	Dnipropetrovsk	Volodymyr Okhotnyk (1)
49	1980	Kharkiv	Volodymyr Malaniuk (1)
50	1981	Yalta	Volodymyr Malaniuk (2)
51	1982	Yalta	Kostiantyn Lerner (2)
52	1983	Melitopol	Dmytro Komarov (1) & Valery Neverov (1)
53	1984	Kiev	Mykhailo Hurevych (1)
54	1985	Uzhhorod	Valery Neverov (2)
55	1986	Lviv	Volodymyr Malaniuk (3)
56	1987	Mykolaiv	Viktor Moskalenko (1)
57	1988	Kharkiv & Lviv	Valery Neverov (3)
58	1989	Kherson	Ihor Novikov (1) & Hennady Kuzmin (2)
59	1990	Simferopol	Mykhailo Brodsky (1)
60	1991	Simferopol	Vitali Golod (1)
61	1992	Simferopol	Vladyslav Borovikov (1)
62	1993	Donetsk	Orest Grytsak (1)
63	1994	Alushta	Yuri Kruppa (1)
64	1995	?	Serhiy Kryvosheya (1)
65	1996	Yalta	Mykhailo Holubiev (1) & Valery Neverov (4)
66	1997	Alushta	Volodymyr Baklan (1)
67	1998	Alushta	Lubomyr Mykhailets (1), Volodymyr Baklan (2), Oleh Berezin (1)
68	1999	Alushta	Hennady Kuzmin (3), Alexei Bezgodov (1), Stanislav Savchenko (1), Oleksandr Moiseyenko (1), Andriy Rakhmangulov (1)
69	2000	Sevastopol	Volodymyr Rohovski (1)
70	2001	Ordzhonikidze	Oleksandr Berelovych (1)
71	2002	Alushta	Anton Korobov (1)
72	2003	Simferopol	Yevhen Miroshnychenko (1)
73	2004	Kharkiv	Andriy Volokitin (1)
74	2005	Rivne	Oleksandr Areschenko (1)
75	2006	Poltava	Zakhar Yefymenko (1)
76	2007	Kharkov	Valeriy Aveskulov (1)
77	2008	Poltava	Yevhen Miroshnychenko (2)
78	2009	Alushta	Volodymyr Jakymov (1)
79	2010	Alushta	Sergey Pavlov (1)
80	2011	Kiev	Ruslan Ponomariov (1)
81	2012	Kiev	Anton Korobov (2)
82	2013	Kiev	Yuriy Kryvoruchko (1)
83	2014	Lviv	Yuriy Kuzubov (1)
84	2015	Lviv	Andriy Volokitin (2)

Most championships

#	Name	Titles	Years	Status
1	Anatoly Bannik	5	1945, 1946, 1951, 1955, 1964	1921-2013
2	Yukhym Heller	4	1950, 1957, 1958, 1959	1925-1998
3	Valery Neverov	4	1983, 1985, 1988, 1996	1962-present
4	Yakiv Vilner	3	1924, 1925, 1928	1899-1931
5	Isaac Boleslavsky	3	1938, 1939, 1940	1919-1977
6	Lev Alburt	3	1972, 1973, 1974	1945-present
7	Yuri Nikolayevsky	3	1963, 1967, 1977	1937-present
8	Volodymyr Malaniuk	3	1980, 1981, 1986	1957-present
9	Hennady Kuzmin	3	1969, 1989, 1999	1946-present

Women

Year	City	Winner
1981	Odessa	Natalia Hasyunas
1982	Lvov	Irina Chelushkina
1983	Kiev	Victoria Artamonova
1984	Sevastopol	Natalia Rucheva
1985	Nikolaev	Larissa Muchnyk
1986	Lvov	Zoya Lelchuk
1987	Lvov	Irina Chelushkina
1988	Kiev	Elena Sedina
1989	Lugansk	Maria Nepeina
1990	Kiev	Elena Sedina
1991	Lugansk	Maria Nepeina
1992	Lugansk	Maria Nepeina
1993	Kharkiv	Maria Dekusar
1994	Lugansk	Natalia Kiseleva
1995	Lvov	Martha Lytynskaya
1996	Chernihiv	Tatiana Melamed
1997	Kiev	Lydia Semenov
1998	Kalush	Galina Shlyakhtich
1999	Kharkiv	Hope Yadvyzhena
2000	Nikolaev	Katerina Rohonyan
2001	Kramatorsk	Anna Zatonskih
2002	Alushta	Tatjana Vasilevich
2003	Nikolaev	Anna Muzychuk
2004	Alushta	Olga Alexandrova
2005	Kharkiv	Anna Ushenina
2006	Odessa	Oksana Vozovic
2007	Poltava	Tatjana Vasilevich
2008	Nikolaev	Oksana Gritsayeva
2009	Evpatoria	Tatjana Vasilevich
2010	Poltava	Inna Gaponenko
2011	Poltava	Kateryna Dolzhykova
2012	Kharkiv	Mariya Muzychuk
2013	Kiev	Mariya Muzychuk
2014	Lviv	Anna Muzychuk
2015	Lviv	Anastasiya Rakhmangulova

Crosstables

UKR-ch 72nd Kharkiv 2012

	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	Points	TB	Perf.	+/-
1	Mariya Muzychuk (Ukraine)	2466	*	½	½	1	½	½	1	1	½	1	6.5/9	26.25	2533	+8
2	Kateryna Lahno (Ukraine)	2542	½	*	½	½	1	½	1	½	1	1	6.5/9	25.75	2526	-1
3	Anna Ushenina (Ukraine)	2433	½	½	*	½	½	1	1	½	1	1	6.5/9	25.25	2537	+13
4	Natalia Zhukova (Ukraine)	2442	0	½	½	*	½	1	½	½	1	1	5.5/9		2448	+1
5	Inna Gaponenko (Ukraine)	2404	½	0	½	½	*	½	½	1	½	1	5.0/9		2413	+1
6	Oksana Gritsayeva (Ukraine)	2319	½	½	0	0	½	*	½	½	1	½	4.0/9		2345	+3
7	Tatiana Kononenko (Ukraine)	2374	0	0	0	½	½	½	*	½	½	1	3.5/9		2300	-10
8	Irina Andrenko (Ukraine)	2228	0	½	½	½	0	½	½	*	0	½	3.0/9		2273	+4
9	Anastasiya Rakhmangulova (Ukraine)	2254	½	0	0	0	½	0	½	1	*	0	2.5/9		2226	-4
10	Kateryna Dolzhikova (Ukraine)	2313	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	½	1	*	2.0/9		2168	-16

Average Elo: 2377 <=> Cat: 6

m = 5.40

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