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Lyudmila Rudenko

1904 - 1986

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Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko (Russian: Людми́ла Влади́мировна Руде́нко, Ukrainian: Людмила Володимирівна Руденко; 27 July 1904 – 4 March 1986) was a Soviet chess player and the second women's world chess champion, from 1950 until 1953. Rudenko was awarded the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman International Master (WIM) in 1950, and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 1976. She was the first woman awarded the International Master title. She was also USSR women's champion in 1952. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lyudmila Rudenko is the 43rd most popular chess player (down from 37th in 2019), the 239th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 256th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Lyudmila Rudenko ranks 43 out of 461. Before her are Savielly Tartakower, Friðrik Ólafsson, Bent Larsen, Vlastimil Hort, Borislav Ivkov, and Robert Hübner. After her are Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona, Alexander McDonnell, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Jan Timman, László Szabó, and Olga Rubtsova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Lyudmila Rudenko ranks 80. Before her are Georges Canguilhem, Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i, Isamu Noguchi, Count Basie, Arshile Gorky, and Ralph Bellamy. After her are Charles "Buddy" Rogers, José Antonio Aguirre, Edmund Veesenmayer, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Emilio Fernández, and Greer Garson. Among people deceased in 1986, Lyudmila Rudenko ranks 71. Before her are Maurice Duruflé, Gunnar Björnstrand, Alfredo Binda, Gabdulkhay Akhatov, Altiero Spinelli, and Gia Carangi. After her are Sterling Hayden, Leif Erickson, Emilio Fernández, Yaroslav Stetsko, J. Allen Hynek, and Omar Ali Saifuddien III.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Lyudmila Rudenko ranks 239 out of 1,365. Before her are Mikhail Eisenstein (1867), Denys Shmyhal (1975), Nikolai Kapustin (1937), Michael Rostovtzeff (1870), Paul Muni (1895), and Alexander Marinesko (1913). After her are Sigismund Korybut (1395), Lina Kostenko (1930), Angelica Balabanoff (1878), Leonid Pasternak (1862), Sergei Winogradsky (1856), and Andriy Melnyk (1890).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Ukraine

Among chess players born in Ukraine, Lyudmila Rudenko ranks 4. Before her are David Bronstein (1924), Efim Bogoljubov (1889), and Vassily Ivanchuk (1969). After her are Salo Flohr (1908), Mark Taimanov (1926), Isaac Boleslavsky (1919), Alexander Beliavsky (1953), Leonid Stein (1934), Ossip Bernstein (1882), Anna Muzychuk (1990), and Georg Marco (1863).

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