World Chess Championship Candidates Match in Leningrad

April 1974. USSR. Leningrad. International grandmaster, winner of chess Olympiads as part of the USSR national team, winner of the "Chess Oscar" prize Anatoly Evgenievich Karpov during one of the matches with Boris Vasilyevich Spassky in the semifinal of the Candidates Competition for the World Chess Championship at the F.E. Dzerzhinsky Palace of Culture. The semifinal ended with A.E. Karpov's victory with a score of 4:1. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Nikolay Naumenkov/TASS