20 February 2017
Oleg Dobrovolsky Wins Rostov Liberation Tournament
Pavel Kotenko finished second.
Candidate master Rodion Bogdanov, FIDE Master Dmitry Kazmin, candidate master Vyacheslav Sipetin, and WFM Anastasia Travkina won special prizes.
Tournament B gathered mostly amateur players. Candidate master Viktor Vusevker from Rostov-on-Don took first place, followed by Oleg Osipovich and Grigory Novoseltsev. Vladimir Kantsyn was the arbiter of both events.
Information by Valery Sipetin