Kateryna Dolzhykova


Kateryna Oleksandrivna Dolzhykova is a Ukrainian chess player holding the title Woman Grandmaster.

Chess career

She won the Ukrainian women's championship in 2011. Dolzhykova played on the silver medal–winning Ukrainian team in the women's team event of rapid chess at the 2008 World Mind Sports Games.
On July 24, 2009, she married chess grandmaster Sergey Karjakin. The marriage later broke up. Her sister Olga Dolzhykova is also a chess player, who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster.