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- Konstantin Landa (born 1972)
- Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941)
- Alexander Lastin (born 1976)
- Anatoly Lein (born 1931)
- Isaac Lipnitsky (1923–1959)
- Konstantin Lerner (born 1950)
- Grigory Levenfish (1889–1961)
- Irina Levitina (born 1954)
- Stepan Levitsky (1876–1924)
- Vladimir Liberzon (born 1937)
- Andor Lilienthal (1911–2010)
- Georgy Lisitsin (1909–1972)
- Marta Litinskaya-Shul (born 1949)
- Andrey Lukin (born 1948)
- Anatoly Lutikov (1933–1989)
- Igor Lysyj (born 1987)
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