(Chess in the USSR. An Illustrated History. A gift photo album). This photo album offers a panorama of seventy years of chess history in the Soviet Union in all its diversity. The book contains many hundreds of photographs, documents and illustrations, many of which are rare and unknown even to experts because they are published for the first time. Many of the materials in this book come from the collections of the Museum of the Russian Chess Federation, of which the author is the scientific director. According to the information available to us, the photo album was published in 800 copies, of which 700 are intended for representative purposes (FIDE, Olympiad 2022 in Chennai, etc.) and only 100 copies are intended for sale. 8 pictures.