Another really huge project has seen the sunlight today: the history of USSR team championships. Very little has been written on the topic and even less in available online. Too bad - the Soviet Championships for decades had attracted Soviet best players; one may safely claim they were then World's strongest team events.

Karpov, Spassky, Petrosian, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Keres, Boleslavsky, Korchnoi, Gaprindashvili, just to name a few were frequent guests.

The new folder on the left (can you spot it?) is devoted entirely to the history of team chess in the Soviet Union. It is divided into three parts:
- the almost annual USSR Team Championship (34 editions were played all in all)
- other team championships, including junior, farmer, trade union and republics' championship
- friendly tournaments, matches and match-tournaments


Before you start digging up the archives it is recommended that you read the About section to learn some basics of the complicated system of team events in the Soviet Union.

It has to be noted that the project would never succeed without the excellent RUSBASE run by A.A.Popovsky who collects all possible results of Soviet individual and team events.

Because a lot is yet to be found (many game results from USSR Team Championship are missing; a lot of data from minor team championship is still unknown) readers, especially from ex-Soviet republics, are asked for support.