Born in
Riga, Vladimir Sveshnikov is the eldest son of Russian
grandmaster Evgeny Sveshnikov. As a junior, he was Latvian champion in the under-14 age category. He was the best Latvian player in the
Riga Technical University Open 2011, in which he finished third. Sveshnikov won the
Latvian Chess Championship in 2016. He played for the Latvian team in the
39th Chess Olympiad in 2010 and
42nd Chess Olympiad in 2016. In 2015, together with his father, he wrote the book
A Chess Opening Repertoire for Rapid and Blitz, published in English and Russian. ==References==