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Olga Podrazhanskaya

Olga Podrazhanskaya is an Israeli chess player and Woman International Master who won team gold for Israel at the 1976 Women's Chess Olympiad.

born 19481976 Women's Olympiad team goldThree Israeli women's championshipsWoman International Master title

Born: 29 May 1948, Saint Petersburg
Occupation: chess player

Olga Podrazhanskaya was born in 1948 in Saint Petersburg

Olga Podrazhanskaya was born on 29 May 1948 and grew up in Leningrad. She trained under the coach Georgy Lisitsin.

In 1969 she shared 3rd place in the Leningrad Women Chess Championship, and in 1971 she won the city's women's blitz championship. In 1973 she won the women's championship of the Soviet sports society Lokomotiv.

She moved to Israel with her family in 1973. She won the Israeli Women Chess Championship in 1974 and 1976, and shared the title with Ljuba Kristol in 1982. She received the title of Woman International Master in 1982.

She played for Israel at the Women's Chess Olympiads of 1974, 1976, 1980, 1988 and 1990. At the 1976 Olympiad in Haifa she played third board and the team won gold. She has not been active in professional chess since 2011.