Iosif Pogrebyssky
Iosif Benediktovich Pogrebyssky was a Ukrainian chess master.
He played several times in Ukrainian Chess Championship, and took 3rd at Poltava 1927, took 5th at Odessa 1928, shared 1st at Kiev 1936, took 2nd, behind Fedor Bogatyrchuk, at Kiev 1937, and tied for 2nd-3rd at Kiev 1949.
He won a match against Mikhail Yudovich in 1937.
He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at Kiev State University in 1940.
