Iosif Rudakovsky
Iosif Iosifovich Rudakovsky was a Ukrainian chess master.
He took 8th at Moscow 1936, won at Rostov-on-Don 1939, shared 3rd at Kiev 1940, tied for 4-7th at Kiev 1940, took 20th at Moscow 1940, and played in interrupted USSR-ch semifinals in Rostov-on-Don in June 1941. After the war, he
tied for 7-9th at Moscow, and shared 1st with Alexander Kotov and Alexander Konstantinopolsky at Baku 1945.
He was a reservist in the Soviet team during the USSR vs. USA radio match in 1–4 September 1945.
