Yevgeny Nikolayevich Somov (Russian: Евгений Николаевич Сомов; born April 15, 1910 in Moscow; † July 22, 1944 in Kazan) was a Russian significant chess composer. In the early 1930s he adopted the double name Somov-Nasimovich (Сомов-Насимович).

From 1926 onwards, Somow composed around 140 chess studies.

Somov was the son of the author Nikolai Fyodorovich Nassimovich, who wrote under the pseudonym N. Tschuschak (Russian чужак for stranger), and the Bolshevik Nina Ivanovna Somova. Somov's brother Mikhail died at the age of ten during the Russian Civil War.

Somov worked as a proofreader. In the 1940s he worked at the Dukat cigarette factory in Moscow, where he was arrested on February 28, 1943. On May 19, 1943[1], Somov was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in the Tatarstan capital Kazan for "anti-Soviet and counter-revolutionary propaganda and agitation" under Article 58.10 of the RSFSR Criminal Code, where, according to a Tatarstan memorial book, he died on July 22 Died in 1944. His works were preserved and were not erased from literature, as was usual practice for those convicted under Article 58. Historians nevertheless assume that Somov was a victim of Stalinist repression. Appropriate rehabilitation did not take place until 2015.

Individual references and sources
  Somov-Nassimovich in Memorial's list of political victims of the Soviet Union (Russian), accessed on November 30, 2015
  Alain Pallier (with information from Wladimir Neistadt): Study tourneys from the past: La Stratégie 1936. In: eg 202, October 2015, pp. 269–272.
Web links
Chto ni sudba to Tragedia, Part 7 and Part 13 by Wladimir Neistadt (Russian)
Compositions by Yevgeny Nikolaevich Somov on the Schwalbe PDB server

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His famous endgame study: 

Somov Nasimovitch composed a chess study with the white king on a1 in the starting position (1939) that has been repeatedly published in numerous chess books and chess journals. This famous chess study with queen sacrifices on both sides leads to a stalemate after another exciting battle on both sides. However, it later transpired that there was a serious error in the introduction to the study. Therefore, this spectacular study was either shortened or later repaired by other study composers by finding a new introduction to it. 

On the Website ARVES you can view these and other 29 works by him and replay them virtually.

His compositional style:

His studies are characterised by classical elements such as exciting play on both sides, economy in the use of material and typical motifs such as stalemate or mate motifs. Somov Nasimovitch's chess studies are classics today, from which countless later chess study composers drew their inspiration.

Source: Website arves.org