Mikhail Nikolayevich Platov (born June 5, 1883 in Riga; † probably August or September 1938 in Kargopol) was a Latvian chess composer of Russian origin. With his brother Wassili, he is considered a pioneer in the field of endgame studies. In 1914 and 1928 the two published collections of their works under the title Sbornik schachmatnych etjudow.

Life and Work
Mikhail Platov was an engineer. He left Moscow and ran a collective farm in Serpukhov. Because of critical political statements, he was sentenced to ten years in a labor camp during the Great Terror, where he probably died in August or September 1938. Platov's last sign of life was a letter dated August 22, 1938, while packages sent to him at the end of 1938 were returned.

Literature
В. Н. Платов: 150 recorded contemporary recordings. Historical and Moscow Soviet physical culture. Moscow, 1925.
В. иМ. Платовы: Сборник шахматных этюдов. State Department, Moscow, Leningrad, 1928.
Timothy G. Whitworth: The Platov Brothers, Cambridge 1994. ISBN 0-9509173-1-1.
Individual references and sources
  Timothy G. Whitworth: The Platov Brothers − Their Chess Endgame Studies, Cambridge 1994. pp. 9–10.

Source: Germain Wikipedia

EG index gives the following interesting references to articles in EG with or by him:

Platov Centenary Ty 1982 5209-16 (76), 5217-24 (77)

Whitworth, T.G. The Platov brothers - a postscript 826 (120)

Vladimirov, Ya. V & M. Platov; R. Reti & J. Fritz (2002) 755 (147)

Platov, V. and M. article about - 826 (120) book about [by Whitworth] - 432 (112), [by Vladimirov] - 755 (147) memories of, by A.Herbstmann - 429 (65)

Whitworth, T.G. The Platov brothers (1994) 432 (112), see p.826 (120)

Others: 24 endgame studies with solution are selected on Website arves.org (editor Peter Boll)