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Traditional Round Robin tournament to commemorate the great  Russian champion which has been already organized in 1909 (won by Akiba Rubinstein).

Since 1947 an annual Round Robin was organized in Sochi then finally in 1993 it moved as a Swiss Open to St. Petersburg.

The recent winners were:
1947 Mikhail Botvinnik, 1951 Vasily Smyslov, 1961 Mark Taimanov, 1963 Lev Polugaevsky, 1964 Nikolai Krogius, 1965 Wolfgang Unzicker and Boris Spassky, 1966 Viktor Korchnoi, 1967 Alexander Zaitsev, Vladimir Simagin, Nikolai Krogius, Leonid Shamkovich and Boris Spassky, 1972 Lev Polugaievsky, 1973 Mikhail Tal, 1974 Lev Polugaevsky, 1976 Lev Polugaevsky, Evgeny Sveshnikov, 1977 Mikhail Tal, 1979 Nukhim Rashkovsky, 1980 Alexander Panchenko, 1981 Vitaly Tseshkovsky, 1982 Mikhail Tal, 1983 Anatoly Vaisser, Evgeny Sveshnikov, 1984 Georgy Agzamov, 1985 Evgeny Sveshnikov, 1986 Svetozar Gligoric, Alexander Beliavsky, Rafael Vaganian, 1987 Sergey Smagin, Evgeny Pigusov and Andrei Kharitonov, 1988 Sergey Dolmatov, 1989 Alexey Vyzmanavin, 1990 Vadim Ruban, 1993 Alexey Dreev, 1994 Ildar Ibragimov, 1995 Vladimir Burmakin, 1996 Alexey Fedorov and Lembit Oll, 1997 Kontentin Sakaev, 1998 Sergey Volkov, 1999 Sergey Volkov and Alexander Grischuk, 2000 Evgny Najer, Valerij Filipov, 2001 Mikhail Kobalia, 2002 Alexander Fominyh, 2003, Timur Gareev, 2004 Sergey Ivanov, 2005 Roman Ovetchkin, 2006 Dmitry Bocharov, 2007 Serguei Movsesian, 2008 Farrukh Amonatov, 2009 Sergey Volkov, 2010 Eltaj Safarli, 2011 Dmitry Bocharov.