Ruslan Shcherbakov (Russian: Руслан Владимирович Щербаков, romanized: Ruslan Vladimirovich Shcherbakov or Scherbakov or Sherbakov; born 14 September 1969) is a Russian chess player and trainer.
Shcherbakov was born on 14 September 1969 in the small town of Staraya Russa, USSR.
He first learned to play chess when he was four years old, but did not begin to study the game seriously until 1980, at the age of eleven.
In 1990, he shared first place in the Russian Chess Championship with Andrei Kharlov, Vladimir Kramnik and Maxim Sorokin.
[2] Also a trainer, among the players he has coached are Parimarjan Negi, Kateryna Lagno,[1] and Dinara Saduakassova.