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Lev Polugaevsky

1934 - 1995

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Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky (Russian: Лев Абрамович Полугаевский, IPA: [pəlʊɡɐˈjefskʲɪj]; 20 November 1934 – 30 August 1995) was a Soviet chess player. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1962 and was a frequent contender for the World Championship, although he never achieved that title. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lev Polugaevsky has received more than 99,565 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Lev Polugaevsky is the 79th most popular chess player (down from 68th in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from Belarus (down from 86th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belarusian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Lev Polugaevsky ranks 79 out of 374Before him are István Csom, Alexander Petrov, Gideon Ståhlberg, Louis Paulsen, Friðrik Ólafsson, and Grigory Levenfish. After him are Reuben Fine, Adolf Albin, Pal Benko, Levon Aronian, Rudolf Charousek, and Vlastimil Hort.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Lev Polugaevsky ranks 217Before him are Sven Wollter, Gennadiy Aygi, Seraphim Rose, Mikel Laboa, Enrique Collar, and Jimmy Fontana. After him are Pat Boone, Phan Văn Khải, Roy Kerr, Anna Maria Ferrero, Mitsuteru Yokoyama, and Carmelo Simeone. Among people deceased in 1995, Lev Polugaevsky ranks 144Before him are Michael V. Gazzo, Alberto Burri, Heinrich Sutermeister, Fred West, Masashi Watanabe, and Karel Píč. After him are Jack Clayton, Georges Candilis, Mordechai Gur, Oles Honchar, Ioannis Alevras, and Kukrit Pramoj.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Lev Polugaevsky ranks 102 out of 330Before him are Zivia Lubetkin (1914), Ivonka Survilla (1936), David Sarnoff (1891), Yisrael Meir Kagan (1838), Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758), and Benedykt Dybowski (1833). After him are Bryachislav of Polotsk (997), Walery Antoni Wróblewski (1836), Leonid Mandelstam (1879), Issai Schur (1875), Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789), and Alaksandar Milinkievič (1947).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Belarus

Among chess players born in Belarus, Lev Polugaevsky ranks 2Before him are Dawid Janowski (1868). After him are Boris Gelfand (1968), Viktor Kupreichik (1949), Ilya Smirin (1968), Evgeny Agrest (1966), Aleksej Aleksandrov (1973), Sergei Zhigalko (1989), Yury Shulman (1975), and Sergei Azarov (1983).