Olga Semenova Tyan-Shanskaya
Olga Izmajlovna Semenova Tyan-Shanskaya was a Soviet chess player.
She was born in Saint Petersburg, a niece of the Russian geographer Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky. She learned to play chess at the age of 18; four years later she won the Leningrad city women's chess championship. She played in nine Women's Soviet Championships, winning two. In 1937 she took 2nd–3rd place, and in 1953 3rd–5th place.
She died in Leningrad.
