Valentina Kozlovskaya

Who is Valentina Kozlovskaya?

Valentina Kozlovskaya is a Russian chess Woman Grandmaster, and the 1996 Senior Women's World Chess Champion.

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 Chess Olympiad in Havana 1966.

On the March 2010 FIDE Elo list her rating is 2278.

Kozlovskaya is a biochemist by profession and her main hobby apart from chess is classical music.

She is the widow of grandmaster Igor Bondarevsky.