WGMElizaveta Solozhenkina

Elizaveta Solozhenkina was born in Saint Petersburg in 2003, the daughter of grandmaster Evgeniy Solozhenkin. She began chess at five and trained through the city's chess school. She won European girls' under-ten silver medals in 2012 and 2013, then world under-twelve silver in 2014. In 2015, she won both the Russian girls' under-thirteen championship and the European girls' under-twelve title. She added world girls' under-fourteen bronze in 2017. She became a woman international master in 2016 and a woman grandmaster in 2021.