1Alexander Alekhine1920
2Peter Romanovsky1923
3Efim Bogoljubov1924
4Efim Bogoljubov1925
5Fedor Bogatyrchuk / Peter Romanovsky1927
6Boris Verlinsky1929
7Mikhail Botvinnik1931
8Mikhail Botvinnik1933
9Grigory Levenfish / Ilya Rabinovich1934–35
10Grigory Levenfish1937
11Mikhail Botvinnik1939
12Andor Lilienthal / Igor Bondarevsky1940
13Mikhail Botvinnik1944
14Mikhail Botvinnik1945
15Paul Keres1947
16David Bronstein / Alexander Kotov1948
17Vasily Smyslov / David Bronstein1949
18Paul Keres1950
19Paul Keres1951
20Mikhail Botvinnik1952
21Yuri Averbakh1954
22Efim Geller1955
23Mark Taimanov1956
24Mikhail Tal1957
25Mikhail Tal1958
26Tigran Petrosian1959
27Viktor Korchnoi1960
28Tigran Petrosian1961
29Boris Spassky1961
30Viktor Korchnoi1962
31Leonid Stein1963
32Viktor Korchnoi1964–65
33Leonid Stein1965
34Leonid Stein1966–67
35Lev Polugaevsky / Mikhail Tal1967
36Lev Polugaevsky1968–69
37Tigran Petrosian1969
38Viktor Korchnoi1970
39Vladimir Savon1971
40Mikhail Tal1972
41Boris Spassky1973
42Alexander Beliavsky / Mikhail Tal1974
43Tigran Petrosian1975
44Anatoly Karpov1976
45Boris Gulko / Iosif Dorfman1977
46Mikhail Tal / Vitaly Tseshkovsky1978
47Efim Geller1979
48Lev Psakhis / Alexander Beliavsky1980–81
49Garry Kasparov / Lev Psakhis1981
50Anatoly Karpov1983
51Andrei Sokolov1984
52Viktor Gavrikov / Mikhail Gurevich / Alexander Chernin1985
53Vitaly Tseshkovsky1986
54Alexander Beliavsky1987
55Anatoly Karpov / Garry Kasparov1988
56Rafael Vaganian1989
57Alexander Beliavsky / Leonid Yudasin / Evgeny Bareev / Alexey Vyzmanavin1990
58Artashes Minasian1991