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- Sam Palatnik (born 1950)
- Alexander Panchenko (1953–2009)
- Vasily Panov (1908–1976)
- Nikolay Pavlov-Pianov
- Jusefs Petkevich (born 1940)
- Arshak Petrosian (born 1953)
- Tigran Petrosian (1929–1984)
- Alexander Petrov (1774–1867)
- Vladimirs Petrovs (1907–1943)
- Evgeny Pigusov (born 1961)
- Igor Platonov (1934–1994)
- Natalia Pogonina (born 1985)
- Vladimir Potkin (Russia, born 1982)
- Lev Polugaevsky (1934–1995)
- Peter Potemkine (1886–1926)
- Svetlana Prudnikova (born 1967)
- Lev Psakhis (born 1958)
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