Natalia Konopleva

Natalia Viktorovna Konopleva (Russian: Наталья Викторовна Коноплёва; 23 November 1944 – 15 March 2011) was a Soviet and Russian chess player who held the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (1976).

Natalia Konopleva has made the first success in the USSR girl's chess championships: 1959 — 1st; 1960 — 2nd-3rd; 1961 — 1st-2nd, 1962 — 2nd-3rd places.

[3] Natalia Konopleva participated in Women's Soviet Championship eight times.

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, she played in chess tournaments in Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic.

The last years of life she lived in her Moscow apartment and died after heavy frostbite.