Vladimir Afromeev is a businessman and Chess player who was born in 1954 in the city of Tula, a city located about 120 km from Moscow.
In the past few years Afromeev has gained spectacular, apparently miraculous, improvements in his official FIDE Elo rating, leaving him at a current rating of 2646 (67th in the world) and the Fide Master (FM) title as of 1 October 2007.