Ludmilla Meijler-Sochnenko

Ludmilla Meijler-Sochnenko (born in Minsk, Belarus) is a Belarusian female draughts player.

She won the draughts women's championship of the Soviet Union in 1979 and finished second in the same tournament in 1977 and 1982. she was a fanatic competitor, and trained 5-6 hours every day.

[2] Her trainer Michael Kats had a large influence on women's Draughts, and his disciples included world champions Ludmilla Sochnenko, Zoja Golubeva and Elena Altsjoel.

[3] In 1985 she competed for the last time at the women's Soviet Union draughts championship, coming 14th of 16 competitors.

She participated a couple of times (1991, 1992 and 1994) in the Dutch draughts women's championships.