Valentina Kozlovskaya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Valentina Kozlovskaya

Russian chess player

Date of Birth: 18-Apr-1938

Place of Birth: Yessentuki, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia

Profession: chess player

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Valentina Yakovlevna Kozlovskaya (Russian: ????????? ????????? ??????????; born 18 April 1938) is a Russian chess player.
She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE in 1976.
Kozlovskaya won the Women's World Senior Championship in 1996.Kozlovskaya won the Women's Soviet Chess Championship in 1965.
She came second in the 1967 Women's Candidates Tournament.
In the same year she placed second to Nona Gaprindashvili in a women's international tournament at Kiev.
She won the gold medal at the Women's Chess Olympiad in Havana 1966.
In 1976 Kozlovskaya won the RSFSR women's championship and in 1979, she shared first place with Ludmila Saunina.
In 2014, she won the European Senior Championship in the women's 65+ division.Kozlovskaya is a biochemist by profession and her main hobby apart from chess is classical music.
She is the widow of Grandmaster Igor Bondarevsky.