Nikoly Rudnev
Nikoly Nikolaevich Rudnev was a Ukrainian–Uzbekistani chess master.
Born in Kharkiv, he won in the Mannheim 1914 chess tournament. After World War I and Bolshevik Revolution, he was sent to Uzbekistan. He tied for 1st with Sergey von Freymann in the Championship of Middle Asia in 1927, took 6th in the 6th USSR Chess Championship at Odessa 1929.
He took 2nd, behind von Freymann, at Tashkent 1932, tied for 8-9th at Tashkent 1934, Rudnev won the 7th Uzbekistani Chess Championship in 1938.
