Valerij Ivanovich Zhuravliov (Russian: Валерий Иванович Журавлёв, Latvian: Valērijs Žuravļovs; December 11, 1938 – July 18, 2021[1]) was a Soviet/Latvian chess master who has won the Latvian Chess Championship three times.
He held the FIDE title of International Master (IM).
[3] In 1968 he shared first place with Jānis Klovāns but lost an additional match,[4] and twice finished second (1984,[5] 1988[6]).
In 1972 he shared first places in Championship of Soviet Army[9] (with Semyon Furman), in Championship of Armed Forces[10] (with Jānis Klovāns), and in 1977 won Russian Chess Championship in Volgograd (shared first place with Lev Psakhis).
[14] He played for Latvia in the Chess Olympiads:[15] Valerij Zhuravliov played for Latvia in European Team Chess Championship:[16] In the last years of his life he lived near Rēzekne and still participated in Latvian team competitions.