Mark Stolberg

Mark Moiseevich Stolberg was a Russian chess master.
Stolberg won the Rostov-on-Don City championship in 1938. The next year he finished in second place in a Soviet master candidates tournament. In 1940, Stolberg shared first place with Eduard Gerstenfeld in Kiev, and tied for 13-16th in Moscow where he was the youngest participant. In June 1941, Stolberg was in fourth place in Rostov-on-Don, when the German attack on the Soviet Union interrupted the event.
Stolberg joined the Soviet Army at the end of 1940, and went missing in action on 16 May 1942 in the battle of Malaya Zemlya, waged against German troops.