[2] Among the players he trained were Nona Gaprindashvili, Valentina Borisenko (who was also his wife),[2] Viktor Korchnoi, Mark Taimanov,[3] and Timur Gareyev.
[3] One of his best-known games was played from 1960 to 1963 against Anatoly Rubezov, and is included in multiple anthologies of brilliant chess games.
[4] In 1973, David Bronstein described Borisenko as "one of our greatest theoretical experts.
"[5] In Russia, the Breyer Variation of the Ruy Lopez is known as the "Borisenko-Furman" variation because Borisenko and Semyon Furman were central in bringing it into use in the 1950s.
[7][8] His wife Valentina Borisenko was also a chess player and held a Candidate Master title.