Yuri Nikolaevich Sakharov (18 September 1922 – 26 September 1981) was a Soviet chess master.

Sakharov was twice Ukrainian Champion

Ukrainian Chess Championship

This is a list of all the winners of the Ukrainian Chess Championship, including those held when Ukraine was a Soviet republic and those held after Ukraine became independent. Players' names listed in parentheses indicate that the player won the tournament but did not receive the title since he...

 in 1966 and 1968. He participated in many Ukrainian championships, tying for 4-6th in 1946 (Anatoly Bannik

Anatoly Bannik

Anatoly Bannik is a Ukrainian Chess Master, who was of Grandmaster strength during his peak years. He is a five-time Ukrainian champion, and qualified for the Soviet Chess Championship final seven times. He was among the top half-dozen Ukrainian players from 1944 to 1966...

 won), tying for 3rd-4th in 1947 (Alexey Sokolsky

Alexey Sokolsky

Alexey Pavlovich Sokolsky was a Ukrainian-Belarusian chess player of International Master strength in over-the board chess, a noted correspondence chess player, and an opening theoretician....

 won), tying for 6-9th in 1949 (Isaac Lipnitsky

Isaac Lipnitsky

Isaac Oskarovich Lipnitsky was a Ukrainian-Soviet chess player of close to Grandmaster strength. He was a two-time Ukrainian champion , and was among Ukraine's top half-dozen players from 1948 to 1956...

 won), taking 5th in 1951 (Bannik won), taking 2nd, behind Efim Geller

Efim Geller

Efim Petrovich Geller was a Soviet chess player and world-class grandmaster at his peak. He won the Soviet Championship twice and was a Candidate for the World Championship on six occasions...

, in 1958, tying for 4-5th in 1959 (Geller won), sharing 1st with Leonid Stein

Leonid Stein

Leonid Zakharovich Stein was a Soviet chess Grandmaster from Ukraine. He won three USSR Chess Championships in the 1960s , and was among the world's top ten players during that era.- Early life :...

 but lost to him a match for the title (+1 −3 =2) in 1960, tying for 3rd-4th in 1961 (Yuri Kots won), taking 3rd in 1962 (Stein won), and tying for 2nd-3rd in 1964 (Bannik won).

Sakharov earned the International Master of Correspondence Chess (IMC) title in 1971.
He died in 1981 in Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

.