Yuri Balashov

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Yuri Sergeyevich Balashov (Russian: Юрий Сергеевич Балашов, born March 12, 1949) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was awarded the the grandmaster title in 1973. In 1970s and in early 1980s he was one of the top 25 chess players in the world. Balashov was Moscow Champion in 1970 and 2nd to Anatoli Karpov in the 1976 USSR Chess Championship.

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