Valentina Borisenko

Who is Valentina Borisenko?

Valentina Michajlovna Borisenko was a Soviet chess player.

She was a five-times winner of the Women's Soviet Championship: 1945, 1955, 1957, 1960, and 1961.

She won the Leningrad women's chess championship seven times, and four times the RSFSR women's championship.

In the Women's World Chess Championship 1949–50 she tied for 3rd–4th with Elisabeth Bykova.

In 1970 she was equal first with Waltraud Nowarra in the international tournament at Halle.

In 1977 she was awarded by FIDE the Honorary title of Woman Grandmaster for her results in the years 1945-1970.