Winner list:

• 1991 (58th,Moscow) Minasian, Artashes
• 1990 (57th,Leningrad) Beliavsky, Alexander / Yudasin, Leonid / Bareev, Evgeny / Vyzmanavin, Alexey "ex aequo"
• 1989 (56th,Odessa) Vaganian, Rafael
• 1988 (55th,Moscow) Karpov, Anatoly / Kasparov, Garry "ex aequo"
• 1987 (54th,Minsk) Beliavsky, Alexander
• 1986 (53rd,Kiev) Zeshkovsky, Vitaly
• 1985 (52nd,Riga) Gavrikov, Viktor / Gurevich, Mikhail / Chernin, Alexander "ex aequo"
• 1984 (51st,Lvov) Sokolov, Andrei
• 1983 (50th,Moscow) Karpov, Anatoly
• 1981 (49th,Frunze) Kasparov, Garry / Psakhis, Lev "ex aequo"
• 1980 (48th,Vilnius) Psakhis, Lev / Beliavsky, Alexander "ex aequo"
• 1979 (47th,Minsk) Geller, Efim
• 1978 (46th,Tbilisi) Tal, Mikhail / Zeshkovsky, Vitaly "ex aequo"
• 1977 (45th,Leningrad) Gulko, Boris / Dorfman, Iosif "ex aequo"
• 1976 (44th,Moscow) Karpov, Anatoly
• 1975 (43rd,Erevan) Petrosian, Tigran
• 1974 (42nd,Leningrad) Beliavsky, Alexander / Tal, Mikhail "ex aequo"
• 1973 (41st,Moscow) Spassky, Boris
• 1972 (40th,Baku) Tal, Mikhail
• 1971 (39th,Leningrad) Savon, Vladimir
• 1970 (38th,Riga) Korchnoi, Viktor
• 1969 (37th,Moscow) Petrosian, Tigran
• 1968/1969 (36th,Alma Ata) Polugaevsky, Lev
• 1967 (35th,Kharkov) Polugaevsky, Lev / Tal, Mikhail "ex aequo"
• 1966 (34th,Tbilisi) Stein, Leonid
• 1965 (33rd,Tallinn) Stein, Leonid
• 1964/1965 (32nd,Kiev) Korchnoi, Viktor
• 1963 (31st,Leningrad) Stein, Leonid
• 1962 (30th,Erevan) Korchnoi, Viktor
• 1961 (29th,Baku) Spassky, Boris
• 1961 (28th,Moscow) Petrosian, Tigran
• 1960 (27th,Leningrad) Korchnoi, Viktor
• 1959 (26th,Tblisi) Petrosian, Tigran
• 1958 (25th,Riga) Tal, Mikhail
• 1957 (24th,Moscow) Tal, Mikhail
• 1956 (23rd,Leningrad) Taimanov, Mark
• 1955 (22nd,Moscow) Geller, Efim
• 1953 (21st,Kiev) Averbakh, Yuri
• 1952 (20th,Moscow) Botvinnik, Mikhail
• 1951 (19th,Moscow) Keres, Paul
• 1950 (18th,Moscow) Keres, Paul
• 1949 (17th,Moscow) Bronstein, David / Smyslov, Vassily "ex aequo"
• 1948 (16th,Moscow) Bronstein, David / Kotov, Alexander "ex aequo"
• 1947 (15th,Leningrad) Keres, Paul
• 1945 (14th,Moscow) Botvinnik, Mikhail
• 1944 (13th,Moscow) Botvinnik, Mikhail
• 1940 (12th,Moscow) Lilienthal, Andrei / Bondarevsky, Isaac "ex aequo"
• 1939 (11th,Leningrad) Botvinnik, Mikhail
• 1937 (10th,Tbilisi) Levenfish, Grigory
• 1934 (9th,Leningrad) Levenfish, Grigory / Rabinovich, Ilya "ex aequo"
• 1933 (8th,Leningrad) Botvinnik, Mikhail
• 1931 (7th,Moscow) Botvinnik, Mikhail
• 1929 (6th,Odessa) Verlisnky, Boris
• 1927 (5th,Moscow) Bohatirchuk, Fedor / Romanovsky, Peter "ex aequo"
• 1925 (4th,Leningrad) Bogoljubow, Efim
• 1924 (3rd,Moscow) Bogoljubow, Efim
• 1923 (2nd,Petrograd) Romanovsky, Peter
• 1920 (1st,Moscow) Alekhine, Alexander