IMAnna Shukhman

Anna Shukhman grew up in Orenburg, where she first encountered chess pieces at three. She began classes at four and later joined the Gazovik sports school. Olga Sukhareva became an important early coach. Both her parents teach at universities, and Shukhman has also won regional awards in mathematics and informatics competitions.

She won the 2019 European girls' under-ten championship and the Russian junior girls' championship in 2024. Chess composition is another part of her career: she won the women's category at the World Chess Solving Championships in 2022 and 2023. Her second place in Russia's 2023 Higher League qualified her for the women's Superfinal. In 2025 she won the World Junior Girls' Championship and earned the woman-grandmaster title. Later that year she became the youngest Russian women's champion, at sixteen. She also helped win the 2025 World Under-16 Olympiad and Women's World Team Championship. FIDE records her international-master title in 2026.