| Valerij Zhuravliov | |
| Full Name: | Valerij Ivanovich Zhuravliov |
| Country: | Soviet Union Latvia |
| Birth Date: | 11 December 1938 |
| Birth Place: | Moscow, USSR |
| Death Place: | Jelgava, Latvia |
| International Master (1963) | |
| Peakrating: | 2490 (January 1978) |
Valerij Ivanovich Zhuravliov (Russian: Валерий Иванович Журавлёв, Latvian: Valērijs Žuravļovs; December 11, 1938 – July 18, 2021[1]) was a Soviet/Latvian chess master who has won the Latvian Chess Championship three times. He held the FIDE title of International Master (IM).
Valerij Zhuravliov won the Latvian Championship in 1980,[2] 1992, and 1994.[3] In 1968 he shared first place with Jānis Klovāns but lost an additional match,[4] and twice finished second (1984,[5] 1988[6]).
In 1967 Zhuravliov won the Championship of "Dinamo" in Sochi[7] and reached eighth place in the 35th USSR Chess Championship in Kharkov.[8]
In seventies Zhuravliov lived in Kaliningrad. In 1972 he shared first places in Championship of Soviet Army[9] (with Semyon Furman), in Championship of Armed Forces[10] (with Jānis Klovāns), and in 1977 won Russian Chess Championship in Volgograd (shared first place with Lev Psakhis).[11] In 1977 he participated in Mikhail Chigorin memorial in Sochi.[12]
He played for Latvia in the Soviet team chess championship in 1962 and 1969,[13] and for the Latvian team "Riga Chess & Draughts Club" in the Soviet team chess cup in 1990.[14]
He played for Latvia in the Chess Olympiads:[15]
Valerij Zhuravliov played for Latvia in European Team Chess Championship:[16]
In the last years of his life he lived near Rēzekne and still participated in Latvian team competitions.[17]