Igor Viktorovich Kovalenko (Ukrainian: Ігор Вікторович Коваленко; Latvian: Igors Kovaļenko; born 29 December 1988, Novomoskovsk) is a Ukrainian chess player who played for Latvia between 2013 and 2021 and holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).

[1] Kovalenko was awarded the titles of International Master (IM) in 2008 and Grandmaster (GM) in 2011.

[3] In 2016, Kovalenko came second in the European Individual Chess Championship in Gjakova (Kosovo).

[4] In 2019, he won the Riga Technical University Open.

[5] Igor Kovalenko played for Latvia in Chess Olympiads:[6] Igor Kovalenko played for Latvia in the European Team Chess Championship:[8] In the light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kovalenko has been putting his chess activities mostly on hold and is instead fighting for his country as part of the Ukrainian resistance movement.