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

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- May 20, 1971,

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) was a Ukrainian

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master. He played several times in

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, and took third at

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1927 ( as Alexey Selezniev won), finished fifth at Odessa 1928 ( Yakov Vilner won), shared first at

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1936, placed second, behind Fedor Bogatyrchuk, at Kiev 1937, and tied for second-third places at Kiev 1949 ( Isaac Lipnitsky won). He won a match against Mikhail Yudovich (9 : 7) in 1937. Pogrebyssky earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at Kiev State University in 1940.The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Iosif Pogrebyssky
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