He won the European Rapid Championship in 2006 and tied for first place at Cappelle-la-Grande in 2007.

Drozdovskij was equal first (losing out on tie-break to Pavel Tregubov) at the 4th Pivdenny Bank Cup 2008, a rapid tournament held annually in Odesa.

[1] This was an outstanding result, as he finished ahead of Boris Gelfand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi.

Since 2009 Yuri Drozdovskij is married to Ukrainian Woman Grandmaster Natalia Zdebskaya.

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