Nikolai Zubarev
Nikolai Zubarev was a Russian chess master.
During World War I, he won ahead of Peter Yurdansky at Moscow 1915, and tied for 4-5th at Moscow 1916. After the war, he won twice Moscow City Chess Championship in 1927 and 1930. He also took 5th in 1919/20, took 3rd in 1920, shared 6th in 1922/23, tied for 12-13th in 1925, took 2nd behind Abram Rabinovich in 1926, tied for 5-6th in 1928, shared 6th in 1929, all in Moscow-ch, and took 21st in the Moscow 1925 chess tournament.
He participated several times in USSR Chess Championship; tied for 11-12th at Moscow 1920, took 10th at Petrograd 1923, tied for 11-13th at Leningrad 1925, took 4th at Odessa 1929, and took 18th at Leningrad 1933.
Awarded the International Arbiter title in 1951.
