Vadim Izrailevich Teplitsky (Russian: Вадим Израилевич Теплицкий; 18 June 1927 – 30 April 2017) was a Soviet and Israeli engineer-economist, journalist and chess historian.

[1] He is the author of more than 20 books, including monographs on the history of chess, as well as over 400 articles, essays, reports, poems, parodies, epigrams published in Ukrainian, Israeli, Russian and American press, as well as on the Internet.

In August 1941, as a child, he was evacuated with his mother, first from Kyiv to Stalingrad, then, when German troops approached the city, the family fled to Soviet Central Asia.

[2] His father, a chemical engineer, Israel Gershkovich Teplitsky, volunteered for the front and was killed in action in 1941.

[3] Teplitsky was recognized as the best chess journalist of Israel in 2002 by the Israeli Athletic Association.