Moscow City Chess Championship
This is a list of the winners of the Moscow City Chess Championship from 1899 to date. From 1921 to 1924 Nikolai Grigoriev voluntarily defended his title in matches against other challengers.

{| class="sortable wikitable"
! Year !! Winner 
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| 1899 match  || Alexander Solovtsov
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| 1900    || Vladimir Nenarokov
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| 1901    || Aleksei Goncharov & Raphael Falk
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| 1902    || Vladimir A. Boyarkov
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| 1908    || Vladimir Nenarokov
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| 1909    || Aleksei Goncharov
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| 1911    || Ossip Bernstein
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| 1913 match  || Peter Yurdansky
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| 1919–20 || Alexander Alekhine
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| 1920–21  || Josef Cukierman
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| 1921–22  || Nikolai Grigoriev
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| 1922 match || Vladimir Nenarokov defeated Nikolai Grigoriev
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| 1922–23  || Nikolai Grigoriev
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| 1923 match || Nikolai Grigoriev drew with Vladimir Nenarokov
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| 1923 match || Nikolai Grigoriev drew with Nikolai Zubarev
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| 1924    || Nikolai Grigoriev
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| 1924 match || Vladimir Nenarokov defeated Nikolai Grigoriev
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| 1925    || Aleksandr Sergeyev
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| 1926    || Abram Rabinovich
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| 1927    || Nikolai Zubarev
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| 1928    || Boris Verlinsky
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| 1929    || Vasily Panov
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| 1929 match || Nikolai Grigoriev
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| 1930    || Nikolai Zubarev
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| 1931    || Nikolai Riumin
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| 1932    || Sergey Belavenets, A. Orlov & Peter Alexeyevich Lebedev
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| 1933–34  || Nikolai Riumin
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| 1935    || Nikolai Riumin
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| 1936    || Vladimir Alatortsev & Ilya Kan
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| 1937    || Vladimir Alatortsev & Sergey Belavenets
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| 1938    || Sergey Belavenets & Vasily Smyslov
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| 1939–40 || Andor Lilienthal
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| 1941    || Alexander Kotov
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| 1941–42 || Isaak Mazel
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| 1942    || Vasily Smyslov
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| 1943–44  || Mikhail Botvinnik
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| 1944–45  || Vasily Smyslov
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| 1946    || David Bronstein
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| 1947    || Vladimir Simagin
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| 1949    || Yuri Averbakh
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| 1950    || Yuri Averbakh & Alexander Nikolayevich Chistyakov
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| 1951    || Tigran Petrosian
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| 1952    || Vladimir Zagorovsky
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| 1953    || David Bronstein
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| 1954    || Vladimir Alexandrovich Soloviev
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| 1955    || Evgeni Vasiukov
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| 1956    || Tigran Petrosian & Vladimir Simagin
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| 1957    || David Bronstein
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| 1958    || Evgeni Vasiukov
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| 1959    || Vladimir Simagin
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| 1960    || Evgeni Vasiukov
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| 1961    || David Bronstein
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| 1962    || Yuri Averbakh & Evgeni Vasiukov
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| 1963    || Anatoly Avraamovich Bikhovsky
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| 1964    || Nikolai Ivanovich Bakulin
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| 1965    || Lev Aronin
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| 1966    || Nikolai Ivanovich Bakulin
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| 1967    || Anatoly Pavlovich Volovich
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| 1968    || David Bronstein & Tigran Petrosian
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| 1969    || Igor Zaitsev
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| 1970    || Yuri Balashov
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| 1971    || Anatoly Lein
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| 1972    || Evgeni Vasiukov
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| 1973    || Mark Dvoretsky
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| 1974    || Boris Gulko
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| 1975    || Karen Grigorian
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| 1976    || Sergey Makarichev & Mikhail Tseitlin
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| 1977    || Mikhail Tseitlin
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| 1978    || Evgeni Vasiukov
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| 1979    || Karen Grigorian
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| 1980    || Anatoly Mikhailovich Kremenetsky
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| 1981    || Boris Gulko
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| 1982    || David Bronstein & Nukhim Rashkovsky
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| 1983    || Evgeny Sveshnikov
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| 1984    || Alexey Vyzmanavin
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| 1985    || Sergey Gorelov
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| 1986    || Alexey Vyzmanavin, Alexey Kuzmin
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| 1987    || Ratmir Kholmov
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| 1988    || Georgy Timoshenko
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| 1989    || Evgeny Bareev
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| 1990    || Evgeny Dragomaretzky
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| 1991   || Evgeni Maljutin
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| 1992   || Alexander Morozevich
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| 1993   || Ilya Frog
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| 1994    || Alexey Mitenkov
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| 1995 || Alexander Rustemov
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| 1996 || Yuri Yakovich
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| 1997 || Alexander Rustemov
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| 1998 || Evgeniy Najer
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| 1999 || Evgeny Vorobiov
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| 2000 || 
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| 2001 || Valentin Arbakov
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| 2002 || Andrei Kharitonov
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| 2003 ||  Evgeniy Najer
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| 2004 ||  Farrukh Amonatov
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| 2005 ||  Sergey Grigoriants
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| 2006 || Alexander Riazantsev 
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| 2007 || Vladimir Belov
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| 2008 || Boris Savchenko
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| 2009 || Evgeny Vorobiov
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| 2010 || Nikolai Chadaev
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| 2011 || Nikolai Chadaev
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| 2012 || Ivan Popov
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| 2013 || Dmitry Gordievsky
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| 2014 || Vladimir Belous
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| 2015 || Urii Eliseev 
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| 2016 || Boris Savchenko
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| 2017 || Dmitry Gordievsky
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| 2018 || Klementy Sychev
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| 2019 || Ivan Popov
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| 2020 || Mikhail Antipov
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References

 (results through 1985)
Popovsky, Alexey, Championships of Republics, Russian Chess Base
RUSBASE, part V, 1919-1937 and 1991-1995
RUSBASE, part IV, 1938-1960
RUSBASE, part III, 1961-1969 and 1985-1990 
RUSBASE, part II, 1970-1984
2002 edition
2003 edition from chessbase.com
 (2006 results)
 (2007 results)

Chess competitions
Chess in Russia
Chess Championship
Chess in the Soviet Union