| Woman Grandmaster from the Soviet Union who was the 1986 World Women's Championship challenger. In 1988 she eloped with American IM John Donaldson while playing in the chess olympiad in Greece. She returned to the Soviet Union almost a year later to get her 7 year-old daughter. It took three weeks to secure their exit visas. Her mother, Lidia Akhmilovskaya, qualified several times for the USSR Women's Championship and was a top-ranked correspondence player. |
Russian Federation