Iosif Benediktovich Pogrebyssky (Pogrebysski, Pogrebissky) (February 23, 1906, Uman

Uman

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 - May 20, 1971, Leningrad

Saint Petersburg

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) was a Ukrainian chess

Chess

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 master.

He played several times in Ukrainian Chess Championship

Ukrainian Chess Championship

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, and took 3rd at Poltava

Poltava

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 1927 (Alexey Selezniev

Alexey Selezniev

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 won), took 5th at Odessa 1928 (Yakov Vilner

Yakov Vilner

Yakov Vilner was a Ukrainian chess master.-Biography:Vilner won the Odessa chess championships four times . He won the Ukrainian championships three times; at Kiev 1924 , at Kharkov 1925 , and at Odessa 1928...

 won), shared 1st at Kiev

Kiev

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 1936, took 2nd, behind Fedor Bogatyrchuk

Fedor Bogatyrchuk

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, at Kiev 1937, and tied for 2nd-3rd at Kiev 1949 (Isaac Lipnitsky

Isaac Lipnitsky

Isaac Oskarovich Lipnitsky was a Ukrainian-Soviet chess player of close to Grandmaster strength. He was a two-time Ukrainian champion , and was among Ukraine's top half-dozen players from 1948 to 1956...

 won).
He won a match against Mikhail Yudovich

Mikhail Yudovich

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 (9 : 7) in 1937.

He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at Kiev State University in 1940.