Botvinik M.M. (1911-1995), chess-player

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BOTVINIK Mikhail Moiseevich (1911, Kuokkala - 1995), chess-player, International Grand Master (1950). He graduated from Leningrad Polytechnic College (1932). Botvinik won the world champion title five times (1948, 1951, 1954, 1958 and 1961), and was a six-time champion of the USSR (in 1931-52), and champion of Leningrad (1930/1931, 1932). In February 1944, he moved to Moscow as a member of the technical department of People's Commissariat of Electric Power Stations. He authored several publications about chess.

I. A. Bogdanov. Botvinnik Mikhail Moiseevich
Polytechnical University