Yuri Nikolaevsky, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Yuri Nikolaevsky

Russian chess player

Date of Birth: 14-Feb-1937

Date of Death: 01-Jan-2004

Profession: chess player

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Yuri V Nikolaevsky (14 February 1937 – 2004) was a Russian chess player.
He won the Ukrainian Chess Championship three times (1963, 1967 (jointly), and 1977), and represented the Soviet Union three times in international student team competition, winning a total of four medals.
He was of Grandmaster strength at his peak in the early 1960s, but never received an international chess title.
He played in three Soviet finals (1966, 1967, 1971).