Iosif Pogrebyssky
Iosif Benediktovich Pogrebyssky was a Ukrainian chess master.
He played several times in Ukrainian Chess Championship, and took third at Poltava 1927, finished fifth at Odessa 1928, shared first at Kiev 1936, placed second, behind Fedor Bogatyrchuk, at Kiev 1937, and tied for second-third places at Kiev 1949.
He won a match against Mikhail Yudovich in 1937.
Pogrebyssky earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at Kiev State University in 1940.