Championship of the Russian Empire
Year Winners
1912 Sankt-Peterburg
1913 not awarded
1914 abandoned due to World War I
Number of Wins (1)
1 Sankt-Peterburg
Championship of the Russian SFSR
Year Winners
1920 Moskva
1924 Leningrad [qualifying tournament for Championship of the USSR]
1927 Moskva
1928 Moskva [part of the 1928 All-Union Spartakiad]
1931 Moskva
1932 Leningrad [qualifying tournament for Championship of the USSR]
1934 Voronezh
Number of Wins (7)
4 Moskva
2 Leningrad
1 Voronezh
Military Championship
Year Winners
1922 Moskva
NB: sometimes considered as a first ever USSR championship (although
the USSR had not yet been formed at the time of the tournament)
Championship of the USSR
Year Winners
1923 Moskva
1924 Kharkov
1928 Moskva [part of the 1928 All-Union Spartakiad]
1931 Russian SFSR
1932 Moskva
1935 Moskva
Number of Wins (7; includes military championship 1922)
5 Moskva
1 Kharkov
Russian SFSR
The 1912 Russian Empire Football Championship is the first ever Russian football
championship, held in 1912 under the auspices of the All-Russian Football Union.
The tournament was supposed to consist of three stages (quarterfinals, semifinals
and final) and teams from eight cities (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Odessa,
Kharkov, Sevastopol, Nikolaev, Yuzovka) had planned to take part.
Quarterfinals [Sep 14]
Kharkov +:- Odessa
Semifinals [Sep 16]
Sankt-Peterburg +:- Kiev
Kharkov 1-6 Moskva
[N.N. (pen) 1-1; Boris Manin (2, scored 0-1), Harry Newman (2),
D. Lann(pen), Andrey Akimov]
Final [Sep 23]
Moskva 2-2 Sankt-Peterburg [aet]
[Boris Manin 45, Harry Newman 52; Andrey Suvorov 35, Ivan Egorov 75]
Final Replay [Oct 7]
Moskva 1-4 Sankt-Peterburg
[D. Lann 15; Alexander Monroe 6, Vasily Butusov 59, Broer Wiberg 77, Petr Sokolov 82pen]
The tournament consisted of several stages. First, a "Northern Championship" and
a "Southern Championship" were played, for which the teams of Moskva, Bogorodsk,
Sankt-Peterburg, Lodz (North) and Yuzovka, Rostov-na-Donu, Kharkov, Kiev, Kherson,
Sevastopol, Odessa, Nikolaev (South) announced their participation; the winners
of the two regional tournaments were to meet in the championship final.
By decision of the All-Russian Football Union a restriction was introduced to the
maximum number of foreign football players on the field as part of one team: three;
however, nationals of other states who permanently lived and worked in Russia for
at least two years were not considered foreigners.
Northern Championship
Semifinals
[Aug 15]
Bogorodsk 0-10 Moskva
[N.N. 20, William Charnock, Vasily Zhitarev (3), other scorers not known]
[Sep 16]
Lodz -:+ Sankt-Peterburg
[Sankt-Peterburg refused to travel to Lodz, not agreeing with the offer of 300 rubles
to pay for travel expenses; Lodz were considered to have forfeited]
Final [Oct 6]
Sankt-Peterburg 3-0 Moskva [aet]
[Sergey Filippov 98, Vasily Butusov 112, Nikolay Detlov 116]
Southern Championship
Quarterfinals
[Jul 28]
Yuzovka 5-1 Rostov-na-Donu
[Aug 15]
Kiev -:+ Kharkov
[not played due to an unexpected postponement of the match date by Kiev, who
were considered to have forfeited]
Kherson +:- Sevastopol
[not played; Sevastopol team were considered to have forfeited]
[Aug 18]
Odessa +:- Nikolaev
[Odessa refused to play in Nikolaev citing the behaviour of local fans, who habitually
threw stones at players of visiting teams during games; the All-Russian Football Union
then moved the game to Odessa, but Nikolaev refused to play there, not agreeing with
this decision, and were considered to have forfeited]
Semifinals [Sep 1]
Kharkov 4-0 Yuzovka [declared unofficial, see below]
[John Winning (3), Sergey Retivov]
Odessa 10-0 Kherson
[Prokopov (5), Ernest Jacobs, Zlochevsky (2), Chorba, Gizer]
Final [Oct 13]
Odessa 2-0 Kharkov [declared unofficial, see below]
[Aleksandr Zlochevsky 13, 65]
Russian Championship Final
[Oct 20]
Odessa 4-2 Sankt-Peterburg [declared unofficial, see below]
[Ernest Jacobs 29, 68pen, Townend 48, Grigory Bogemsky 51; Vasily Butusov 45, 80]
NB: after the match, Sankt-Peterburg filed a protest demanding Odessa to be punished
for using too many foreigners (four, according to Sankt-Peterburg); the protest was
rejected, but as part of the investigations the federation annulled the technical
result of the match between Kharkov and Kiev (Aug 15) and consequently also ruled
the southern semifinal between Kharkov and Yuzovka (Sep 1) and the southern final
between Odessa and Kharkov were to be considered as friendlies, as well as the
all-Russian final on Oct 20; the main verdict was to withhold the title.
After the scandal that ended the previous tournament, a significant change was made
to the regulations of the championship: now the number of foreigners in the teams was
not limited, but all of them had to be "permanent residents of the locality".
The set-up of tournament was analogous to the 1913 edition.
First, the "Northern Championship" and the "Southern Championship" were to be played out.
It is reliably known that the teams of Rzhev, Torzhok, Orekhovo-Zuevo and Moskva entered
the Northern Championship, and played in the first round, but it is not certain whether
any other teams (presumably at least Sankt-Peterburg) planned to participate.
The Southern Championship bracket was divided into western and eastern regions.
Kishinev, Kherson, Elisavetgrad, Nikolaev, Kiev, Chernigov and Odessa entered in the
western region, while Rostov-na-Donu, Yuzovka, Simferopol, Sevastopol and Kharkov were
to play in the eastern region.
Northern Championship
First Round [Jun 29]
Rzhev 2-3 Torzhok
Orekhovo-Zuevo 0-6 Moskva
Southern Championship - Western Region
NB: Kiev and Chernigov bye to second round;
Odessa bye to fourth round
First Round
Kishinev - Kherson
Elisavetgrad - Nikolaev
Second Round
Kiev - Chernigov
Kishinev/Kherson - Elisavetgrad/Nikolaev
Third Round
between second round winners
Fourth Round
Odessa - third round winners
Southern Championship - Eastern Region
NB: Kharkov bye to third round
First Round
Simferopol - Sevastopol
Rostov-na-Donu - Yuzovka
Second Round
between first round winners
Third Round
Kharkov - second round winners
NB: tournament abandoned due to outbreak WW I.
Tournament played in Moscow as part of the All-Russian pre-Olympic tournament in honour of the 2nd Congress of the Third International. In addition to the hosts, six teams took part in the competition: two from Yaroslavl (military - team of the Vsevobuch of the Yaroslavl Military District and civilian - "Mars"), as well as one each from Samara, Tver (Morozov Sports Club), Smolensk (Smolensk Sports Club) and the Baltic Fleet. Quarterfinals [Jul 19] Samara 3-2 Smolensk Moskva 10-0 Baltisky Flot Tver 5-0 Yaroslavl VO Yaroslavl bye Semifinals [Jul 21] Moskva 10-0 Samara Tver 5-0 Yaroslavl Final [Jul 25] Moskva 2-1 Tver [Konstantin Blinkov (1-0), Nikolay Nikitin 88; Aleksandr Rozanov (1-1)]
The tournament was organized in Moscow by the Main Directorate of Vsevobuch. Since the tournament was held by Vsevobuch the subjects of the competition were the military districts into which the territory unofficially called "Soviet Russia" was divided at that time, which included not only the RSFSR itself, but also the formally independent Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian military district), BSSR (Belarusian Military District), ZSFSR (Transcaucasian Military District). Because of this, a number of football historians suggest that this tournament be considered a USSR championship (although the USSR had not yet been formed at the time of the tournament). [Sep 9] Moskva 16-0 Kaluga [declared unofficial, see below] [Fedor Selin (3), Nikolay Starostin (3), Viktor Prokofiev (2), Pavel Kanunnikov (5), Sergey Sysoev (2), Sergey Dimitriev-Moro] [Sep 12] Kharkov 2-1 Kazan [declared unofficial, see below] [Aleksandr Shpakovsky, Ivan Natarov - Abakumov] [Sep 13] Tver 3-2 Baltflot [declared unofficial, see below] [Steklov, P. Kozlov, A. Kozlov; Kushel, Ivanov] The tournament began before the gathering of all participants and the drawing up of regulations; several games were played. When, finally, the composition of the teams became clear, it turned out that before that the teams that had participated in the tournament were not exactly the ones whose participation was expected. In the end, the results of the games above were cancelled and the tournament started anew. Participants (4): Moskovsky VO (represented by Moskva) Ukrainsky VO (represented by Kharkov) Privolzhsky VO (represented by mixed team from Kazan, Samara and Saratov) Uralsky VO (represented by Perm) Semifinals [Sep 14] Kharkov 2-1 Privolzhye [aet] [Nikolay Kazakov 86, Adam Bem 119; Emelyanov 80] [Sep 15] Moskva 17-0 Perm [Viktor Prokofiev 5, Pavel Kanunnikov 8, 13, 15, 56, Pavel Nogotkov 9, Fedor Selin 22, 32, 38, 48, 65, Nikolay Starostin 26, 50, 53, 58, Konstantin Zhiboyedov 70, 75] Final [Sep 17] Moskva 8-0 Kharkov [Pavel Kanunnikov 21, 26, 32, 70, Konstantin Zhiboyedov 37, Pavel Nogotkov 58, Fedor Selin 63, 81]
Tournament played in Moscow as part of the All-Union Physical Education Festival. 15 teams from three of the four union republics that formed the USSR took part: Kharkov (team of the Southern Railway) Tbilisi (OKA - Separate Red Banner Red Army) Moskva Voronezh (team of the South Eastern Railway) Rzhev (team of the Moscow-Belarusian-Baltic Railway) Ufa (KSMB - Communist Youth Union of Bashkiria) Ivanovo Yaroslavl Kolomna Tambov Nizhny Novgorod Kovrov Kaluga Irkutsk Gomel Preliminary Round [Sep 3] Tbilisi 3-1 Voronezh [B.Kulvets 23, Nikita Khromov 37, M. Makagonov 72; Deryuzhkin 56] Moskva 7-0 Ivanovo [Aleksey Shaposhnikov 9, Fedor Selin 15, 18, Nikolay Troitsky 23, Sergey Troitsky 28, Taras Grigoriev 37, 42] Round 1 [Sep 3] Irkutsk 15-0 Ufa [Anufriev 8, 20, 23, 44, 67, 71, Vyatkin 15, Donskoy 31, Nilov 37, 83, Druzhinin 39, 49, Klimov 45, Krasilnikov 60, 86] Yaroslavl 2-1 Gomel [V. Petrov 16, Tikhomirov 81; M. Kovalev 36] [Sep 4] Kolomna 6-0 Rzhev [B. Dementyev 21, 38, 65, Afanasiev 43, Bryzgalov 56, 83] Tambov 3-2 Nizhny Novgorod [A. Popov 49, M. Anisimov 62, I. Popov 78; Polzunov 24, 65] [Sep 5] Kovrov 3-2 Kaluga [Osipov 48, Petrov 57, Kositsky 72; Eremetsky 26 Fedorov 70] Moskva 6-0 Tbilisi [Aleksey Shaposhnikov 21, 63, Nikolay Troitsky 38, Sergey Troitsky 58, Fedor Selin 74, Sergey Bukhteev 82] Kharkov bye Tula bye Quarterfinals [Sep 5] Irkutsk 1-0 Yaroslavl [Gradusov 78og] Kolomna 2-0 Tambov [B. Dementyev 33, 69] Kharkov 0-0 Tula [aet] [Sep 6] Moskva 4-0 Kovrov [Pavel Savostyanov 22, Aleksandr Kholin 34, Konstantin Blinkov 55, 71] Quarterfinal Replay [Sep 6] Kharkov 3-0 Tula [V. Butenko 26, Shcherban 63, Putsenko 74] Semifinals [Sep 7] Kharkov 5-1 Kolomna [Shcherban 22, V.Butenko 43, 63, Putsenko 65, Trotsenko 80; B.Dementyev 12] Moskva 15-0 Irkutsk [Aleksey Shaposhnikov 8, 21, 30, 78, Fedor Selin 13, 18, 39, 42, 84, Nikolay Troitsky 49, 52, Sergey Troitsky 58, 63, 64, Taras Grigoriev 73] Final [Sep 9] Moskva 3-0 Kharkov [Sergey Sysoev 4, Fedor Selin 8, Taras Grigoriev 24] Consolation Tournament Quarterfinals [Sep 5] Kaluga +:- Ivanovo [Sep 6] Nizhny Novgorod 4-2 Tver [Sep 7] Tula +:- Ufa [Sep 8] Voronezh 3-2 Gomel Semifinals [Sep 8] Nizhny Novgorod 2-1 Kaluga Voronezh +:- Tula Final [Sep 9] Nizhny Novgorod 3-2 Voronezh
In the qualifying tournament, the entire territory of the RSFSR was divided into regions: Ural, Siberia, North, Volga, Northern Caucasus/South-East, North-West, Centre, Autonomous Republics/Eastern Regions, Autonomous Republics/Western Regions Qualifying Tournament Ural Semifinals Izhevsk n/p Perm Chelyabinsk n/p Ekaterinburg NB: competition did not take place Siberia Quarterfinals Krasnoyarsk +:- Irkutsk Novonikolaevsk n/p Tomsk Semipalatinsk +:- Barnaul Omsk 7-0 Tyumen Semifinals Omsk 4-2 Semipalatinsk Krasnoyarsk n/p winners Novonikolaevsk/Tomsk NB: competition not completed North Quarterfinals Vyatka +:- Cherepovets Veliky Ustyug unk Ust Sysolsk Semifinals Vyatka +:- winners Veliky Ustyug/Ust Sysolsk Vologda +:- Arkhangelsk Final [Jul 13] Vyatka 4-0 Vologda NB: Vyatka qualified for final tournament Volga Preliminary Round Saratov +:- Uralsk Quarterfinals: Samara 1-0 Ulyanovsk Nizhny Novgorod +:- Vladimir Tsaritsin 2-0 Astrakhan Markstadt +:- Saratov NB: competition not completed South-East/Northern Caucasus Northern Caucasus Vladikavkaz +:- Temir-Khan-Shura NB: Vladikavkaz to inter-district final South-East Semifinals Krasnodar n/p Stavropol South-East Final Rostov-na-Donu n/p winners semifinal NB: competition did not take place; Rostov-na-Donu to inter-district final Inter-District Final Rostov-na-Donu +:- Vladikavkaz NB: Rostov-na-Donu qualified for final tournament North-West Round 1 Yaroslavl 4-1 Kostroma [aet] Leningrad 3-1 Tver Semifinals Leningrad +:- Yaroslavl Novgorod +:- Pskov Final [Jul 15] Leningrad 9-1 Novgorod NB: Leningrad qualified for final tournament Centre Round 1 Moskva +:- Tula Kursk +:- Orel Kaluga +:- Bryansk Voronezh +:- Tambov Penza +:- Ryazan Quarterfinals Moskva 7-0 Ivanovo-Voznesensk Kaluga bt Kursk Voronezh 3-1 Penza Smolensk bye Semifinals Moskva +:- Smolensk Kaluga +:- Voronezh Final: [Jul 27] Moskva 10-0 Kaluga NB: Moskva qualified for final tournament Autonomous Republics and Eastern Regions Round 1 Kazan +:- Ufa Cheboksary unk Krasnokokshaysk Semifinals Kazan bt Cheboksary/Krasnokokshaysk Tashkent 5-1 Orenburg NB: Kazan presumably won their semifinal by walkover Final [Jul 1] Kazan 4-1 Tashkent NB: Kazanb qualified for final tournament Autonomous Republics and Western Regions Petrozavodsk qualified for final tournament as only participants Final Tournament Played in Moskva and Leningrad. Quarterfinals [Aug 6] Leningrad +:- Petrozavodsk Moskva 4-2 Rostov-na-Donu Kazan bye Vyatka bye Semifinals: [Aug 17] Leningrad +:- Vyatka Moskva 5-1 Kazan [Lazar Sandlori 73, (2-1), (3-1), (4-1), (5-1); Mironychev 20] Final [Aug 24] Leningrad 4-4 Moskva [aet] [Petr Antipov (1-0), Eduard Emmerich 30pen, 31pen, Mikhail Butusov (4-3); Nikolay Starostin( 1-1), 80, Petr Artemiev (1-2), Konstantin Blinkov (3-3)] Final Replay [Aug 31] Leningrad 1-0 Moskva [Petr Grigoriev 39] NB: Leningrad qualified for Championship of the USSR 1924
Played in Moscow as part of the II All-Union Physical Education Festival.
The winners of the republican football championships - the Byelorussian SSR,
the ZSFSR (Transcaucasian SFSR), the RSFSR and the Ukrainian SSR took part:
Leningrad (winners 1924 RSFSR championship)
Kharkov (winners 1924 Ukrainian SSR championship)
Zakavkazye XI (players from Baku, Batumi and Tbilisi; represented ZSFSR whose
championship was not finished)
Minsk (winners 1924 Byelorussian SSR championship; did not show)
Semifinals [Sep 3]
Leningrad +:- Minsk
Kharkov 4-0 Zakavkazye
[Nikolay Kazakov 18, Yakov Alferov 40, Ivan Natarov 65, Vladimir Fomin 73]
Final [Sep 6]
Kharkov 2-1 Leningrad
[Nikolay Kazakov 32, Yakov Alferov 65; Dimitri Rodionov 75]
Played as part of the All-Russian Physical Education Festival.
The All-Russian holiday of physical education was preceded by regional holidays, based
on the results of which regional teams were formed. The territory of the RSFSR was divided
into regions: North, North-West, Middle Volga, Central Industrial Region, Lower Volga,
Central Black Earth, Moskva, Centre, West, Northern Caucasus, Siberia,
Kazakhstan, Far East, Leningrad, Ural, Crimea
Qualifying Tournament
North
Semifinal
Arkhangelsk 5-0 Murmansk
Final [Jul 31]
Arkhangelsk 3-1 Vologda
NB: Arkhangelsk qualified for final tournament
North-West
[Jul 19]
Novgorod 2-1 Cherepovets
NB: Novgorod qualified for final tournament
Middle Volga
Quarterfinals
Samara +:- Ufa
Vyatka 6-0 Izhevsk
Kazan 5-1 Penza
Cheboksary 5-4 Ulyanovsk
Semifinals 5th-8th Place
Ufa +:- Izhevsk
Penza +:- Ulyanovsk
Semifinals
Samara 3-2 Vyatka
Kazan 5-1 Cheboksary
Fifth Place Match
Ufa 3-1 Penza
Third Place Match
Vyatka +:- Cheboksary
Final [Jul 16]
Samara 3-1 Kazan [aet]
NB: Middle Volga ("Srednyaya Volga") represented at final tournament by a
mixed team from Samara, Kazan and Vyatka
Central Industrial Region
Preliminary Round
Yaroslavl 6-4 Kostroma
Semifinals
Nizhny Novgorod 6-1 Ivanovo
Vladimir 10-3 Yaroslavl
Final [Jul 10]
Vladimir 5-1 Nizhny Novgorod
NB: Vladimir provincial team (based on Kovrov team, reinforced by players from
Vladimir, Murom and other cities) qualified for final tournament
Lower Volga
NB: no competition; Stalingrad selected to represent the region ("Nizhnyaya Volga")
at final tournament
Central Black Earth
Semifinals
Kursk 2-1 Orel
Tambov bt Voronezh
Final [Jul 30]
Kursk 3-2 Tambov
NB: Kursk qualified for final tournament
Moskva
[Jul 31]
Tver 1-7 Moskva
NB: Moskva qualified for final tournament
Centre
NB: no competition; region ("Tsentralny") not represented at final tournament
West
[Jul 10]
Smolensk 4-1 Bryansk
NB: region ("Zapadny") represented at final tournament by a mixed team from
Smolensk, Bryansk and Yartsevo
Northern Caucasus
NB: no competition; a mixed team from Rostov-na-Donu and Taganrog was formed
to represent the region ("Severny Kavkaz") at final tournament
Siberia
Round 1 [Aug 7]
Irkutsk 5-1 Tomsk
Minusinsk 2-1 Biysk
Omsk 3-1 Rutsovsk
Novosibirsk 9-0 Kamen
Quarterfinals
[Aug 7]
Krasnoyarsk 6-1 Barnaul
Kuznetsk 6-1 Achinsk
[Aug 8]
Irkutsk 3-0 Minusinsk
Omsk 5-1 Novosibirsk
Semifinals
[Aug 8]
Krasnoyarsk 3-0 Kuznetsk
[Aug 10]
Irkutsk 1-0 Omsk
Final [Aug 12]
Irkutsk 3-3 Krasnoyarsk [aet]
Final Replay [Aug 13]
Irkutsk +:- Krasnoyarsk
NB: no team to represent the region ("Sibir") entered final tournament
Kazakhstan
Orenburg 4-1 Frunze
Frunze 1-0 Aktyubinsk
NB: a mixed team from Orenburg and Aktyubinsk was formed to represent the region
("Kazakskaya ASSR") at final tournament
Far East
NB: no competition; a team was formed to represent the region ("Dalny Vostok")
at final tournament
Leningrad
NB: no competition; Leningrad selected to represent the region at final tournament
Ural
Quarterfinals
Sverdlovsk 5-2 Chelyabinsk
Troitsk 4-1 Zlatoust
Sarapul 3-1 Verkhnekamsk
Tagil 3-3 Kungur
Quarterfinal Replay
Tagil abd Kungur [abandoned at 2-1]
Quarterfinal Second Replay
Tagil 5-4 Kungur
Semifinals
Sverdlovsk 8-1 Troitsk
Sarapul 6-0 Tagil
Final
Sarapul 3-2 Sverdlovsk
NB: Ural region represented at final tournament by Perm, reinforced by players
from Sverdlovsk, Nevyansk and Shadrinsk
Crimea
NB: Feodosiya and Eupatoria eliminated in preliminary round
Final Stage
Sim Sev Ker
1.Simferopol 2 1 1 0 4- 3 3 xxx 3-2 1-1
2.Sevastopol 2 1 0 1 6- 4 2 xxx 4-1
3.Kerch 2 0 1 1 2- 5 1 xxx
NB: Simferopol qualified for final tournament
Final Tournament
Round 1
[Aug 6]
Severny Kavkaz 4-2 Simferopol
[Gushchin 65, A. Serlin (2-2), Nosov (3-2), I. Fesenko (4-2); N.N. (0-1), N.N. (0-2)]
Zapadny 0-0 Leningrad
[Aug 7]
Vladimir 3-8 Moskva
[A. Petrov (1-2); Taras Grigoriev 1; other scorers not known]
Stalingrad 0-1 Srednyaya Volga
[Aug 17]
Kazakskaya ASSR 4-1 Perm
[Aug 18]
Novgorod 4-0 Arkhangelsk
Kursk +:- Tsentralny
Dalny Vostok +:- Sibir
Round 1 Replay
Zapadny +:- Leningrad
Quarterfinals [Aug 20]
Moskva +:- Kursk
Severny Kavkaz 2-1 Srednyaya Volga
Kazakskaya ASSR +:- Dalny Vostok
Zapadny 6-4 Novgorod
Semifinals [Aug 23]
Moskva 4-2 Severny Kavkaz
[Moskva scorers not known; A. Serlin 1-1, Gushchin 40]
Zapadny 8-0 Kazakskaya ASSR
Seventh Place Match
Kursk +:- Dalny Vostok
Fifth Place Match
Srednyaya Volga +:- Novgorod
Third Place Match
Severny Kavkaz +:- Kazakskaya ASSR
Final [Aug 27]
Moskva 15-0 Zapadny
[Nikolay Starostin (4), Sergey Ivanov (4), Konstantin Blinkov (3),
Aleksandr Kholin (2), Fedor Selin, Sergey Egorov]
Final stage played in Moscow as part of the All-Union Spartakiad.
Qualifying Tournament
Moskva
NB: no competition; Moskva selected to represent the region at final tournament
Leningrad
NB: no competition; Leningrad selected to represent the region at final tournament
Autonomous Republics and Regions
Quarterfinals
Tatarskaya ASSR 4-0 Chuvaskaya ASSR
Kazakskaya ASSR 5-0 Votskaya AO
Semifinals
Tatarskaya ASSR 9-1 Mariskaya AO
Kazakskaya ASSR 2-0 Bashkirskaya ASSR
Final [Aug 4]
Tatarskaya ASSR 5-1 Kazakskaya ASSR
NB: region represented at final tournament by Kazan reinforced by one player
from the Kazakh ASSR
Volga
Quarterfinals
Ulyanovsk 4-0 Orenburg
Saratov 5-1 Astrakhan
Stalingrad 4-0 Penza
Samara bye
Semifinal 5th-7th Place
Orenburg 6-1 Penza
Astrakhan bye
Semifinals
Samara 2-1 Saratov
Stalingrad 2-0 Ulyanovsk
Fifth Place Match
Orenburg 2-1 Astrakhan
Third Place Match
Saratov +:- Ulyanovsk
Final [Aug 2]
Samara abd Stalingrad [abandoned at 2-1 due to rain]
Final Replay [Aug 3]
Samara 1-0 Stalingrad
NB: a mixed team from Samara, Stalingrad, Ulyanovsk, Saratov and Astrakhan was
formed to represent the region ("Volga") at final tournament
Siberia
NB: no competition; Irkutsk reinforced by players from Omsk and Novosibirsk
represent the region at final tournament
Central Agricultural Region
Quarterfinals
Bryansk 2-1 Smolensk
Kaluga +:- Ryazan
Kursk 1-0 Orel
Voronezh 1-1 Tambov [Voronezh qualified on lots]
Semifinals
Voronezh 3-0 Kursk
Bryansk 2-1 Kaluga
Final [Jul 22]
Bryansk awd Voronezh [abandoned at 2-3 in 80'; awarded to Bryansk]
NB: region represented at final tournament by Bryansk reinforced by players from
Smolensk
Central Industrial Region
Semifinals
Kostroma 4-3 Nizhny Novgorod
Ivanovo 3-1 Vladimir
Final [Jul 22]
Ivanovo 5-0 Kostroma
NB: region represented at final tournament by Ivanovo reinforced by players from
Yaroslavl, Tula and Nizhny Novgorod
Ural
[Aug 5]
Ural 1-0 Vyatka
NB: region represented at final tournament by Vyatka reinforced by players from
Perm and Sverdlovsk
Crimea
Preliminary Round
Kerch 1-0 Feodosiya
Sevastopol 6-0 Dzhankoy
Simferopol 9-0 Eupatoria
Final Stage
Sim Sev Ker
1.Simferopol 2 2 0 0 3- 1 4 xxx +:- 3-1
2.Sevastopol 2 1 0 1 3- 0 2 xxx 3-0
3.Kerch 2 0 0 2 1- 6 0 xxx
NB: a mixed team from Simferopol and Sevastopol was formed to represent the
region ("Krym") at final tournament
Northern Caucasus
NB: no competition; a mixed team from Taganrog, Rostov, Adygea, Sulina and Armavir
was formed to represent the region ("Severny Kavkaz") at final tournament
North
Semifinal
Arkhangelsk 7-0 Veliky Ustyug
Vologda bye
Final [Aug 3]
Arkhangelsk 1-0 Vologda
NB: a mixed team from Arkhangelsk and Vologda was formed to represent the
region ("Sever") at final tournament
Far East
NB: no competition; a mixed team from Vladivostok and Khabarovsk was formed to
represent the region ("Dalny Vostok") at final tournament
Final Tournament
Preliminary Round [Aug 15]
Irkutsk 5-1 Ivanovo
[Kutin 23pen, 75, Burenin 46, Shcherbakov 57, 58; Kiselev 12]
Volga 3-2 Krym [aet]
[Kuzmichev 44, Shukher 68, Kruze 108; Dangulov 15, Serlin 25]
Moskva 4-2 Severny Kavkaz
[Pavel Kanunnikov 5, Petr Isakov 21, 82, Vladimir Blinkov 42; Polyakov 8, Zevli 87pen]
Leningrad 16-2 Vyatka
[Mikhail Butusov 8, 21, 30, 44, 56, 66, 75, 86, Grigory Arkhangelsky 15, 47, 60, 78,
Boris Shelagin 25, 51, Petr Grigoriev 28, Vladimir Kuskov 54; A. Andronnikov 72,
Shestakov 80]
Quarterfinals [Aug 17]
Kazan 7-1 Sever
[Sapozhnikov 21, 53, Guttsayt 64, Fedoseev 76, 79, Vlasov 84, 88; Duletov 70]
Dalny Vostok 2-1 Bryansk
[Vladivostokov 8, Bakalyar 41; Ustinov 12]
Leningrad 6-1 Volga
[Vladimir Kuskov 13, Mikhail Butusov 24pen, 43pen, 48pen, Grigory Arkhangelsky 36,
Konstantin Egorov 54; Kruze 27]
Moskva 8-3 Irkutsk
[Fedor Selin 8, Vladimir Blinkov 23, 57, Aleksandr Kholin 37, 45, Kozin 39og,
Nikolay Starostin 73, Petr Isakov 82; Kutin 10, Shcherbakov 22, Druzhinin 40pen]
Semifinals 9th-12th Place [Aug 17]
Severny Kavkaz 7-1 Vyatka
[Treynis 5, Serlin 28, 46, Dangulov 31, Vasyukov 51, 86, Gushchin 82; Fadeev 10]
Krym 3-1 Ivanovo
[Varavva 9, Urbansky 39, Polyakov 57; Masterov 17]
Semifinals 5th-8th Place [Aug 19]
Irkutsk 4-1 Bryansk
[Kutin 21, 42, Shcherbakov 44, 67; Alekseev 38]
Volga 5-1 Sever
[Kuzmichev 19, Korotkov 27, 59, Kruze 36, Shukher 44; Duletov 71]
Semifinals [Aug 19]
Moskva 12-1 Dalny Vostok
[Nikolay Starostin 8, 47, 59, 83, Petr Isakov 12, 49, 87, Aleksandr Kholin 28, 57,
Vladimir Blinkov 38, Nikolay Troitsky 65, Evgeny Nikishin 77; I. Ivanov 16]
Leningrad 12-1 Kazan
[Aleksandr Artemyev 13, 20, 38, 49, 67, Andrey Murashov 18, 31, 72,
Petr Grigoriev 41, 69, Boris Shelagin 43, Vladimir Kuskov 45; Sapozhnikov 58]
Ninth Place Match [Aug 19]
Severny Kavkaz 2-1 Krym
[Kurabo 26, Dangulov 79; Polyakov 56]
Seventh Place Match [Aug 21]
Sever 3-1 Bryansk
[Duletov 26, Kuznetsov 64, Tonshev 75; Petrov 59]
Fifth Place Match [Aug 20]
Irkutsk 4-2 Volga
[Shcherbakov 7, 58, Kutin 23, Arkhipov 67; Kruze 37, Shukher 43]
Third Place Match [Aug 21]
Kazan 5-3 Dalny Vostok
[Khrustalov 8, Sapozhnikov 23, 65, Guttsayt 37, Vlasov 85; I. Ivanov 31,
Vladivostokov 77, Disevago 81]
Final [Aug 21]
Moskva 5-3 Leningrad
[Nikolay Starostin 20, 35, Vladimir Blinkov 53, 65, Aleksandr Kholin 76;
Mikhail Butusov 2, 82, Rushchinsky 84og]
Played in Moscow as part of the All-Union Spartakiad.
Like the 1928 All-Union Spartakiad itself, its football tournament was a very ambitious
event for its time; in terms of the number of planned participants (23), the tournament
was to become the largest international football competition in the world (one team more
than at the 1924 Olympic tournament, although only six teams from abroad entered, two of
which never showed).
National teams of the union republics were invited (at that time in the USSR, in addition
to the RSFSR, there were five of them), as well as representative teams of twelve regions
of the RSFSR. Numerous invitations were also sent to "working sports union" teams from
various countries; eventually, four travelled for the tournament.
Teams of the Soviet Union republics (5):
Ukrainian SSR (also "Kharkov" - Kharkov team reinforced by one player from Odessa)
Transcaucasian SFSR (also "Tbilisi" - Tbilisi team reinforced by players from Baku)
Belarusian SSR (also "Gomel" - Gomel team reinforced by players from Minsk and Polotsk)
Uzbek SSR (also "Tashkent" - Tashkent team reinforced by players from Fergana)
Turkmen SSR (also "Ashgabat")
Regional teams from the RSFSR (12):
Bryansk
Dalny Vostok
Ivanovo
Kazan
Krym
Leningrad
Moskva
Sever
Severny Kavkaz
Sibir
Volga
Vyatka
Working sports union selections from abroad (4):
England
Finland
Switzerland
Uruguay
NB: Austria and Germany were part of the draw of the original, annulled tournament,
but did not show and were not part of the official event.
Original Tournament (annulled)
Preliminary Round (losers to consolation tournament)
[Aug 11]
Uruguay 3-1 Ivanovo
Transcaucasia 3-0 Vyatka
Ukraine 13-1 Sever
[Aleksandr Shpakovsky (2); other scorers not known]
Sibir 4-2 Turkmenistan
Moskva 4-0 England
[Nikolay Starostin (2), Pavel Kanunnikov, Aleksandr Kholin]
[Aug 12]
Finland 4-0 Volga
[Aug 13]
Leningrad 9-0 Uzbekistan
byes: Austria, Belarus, Bryansk, Dalny Vostok, Germany,
Kazan, Krym, Severny Kavkaz, Switzerland
1/8 Finals
[Aug 12]
Krym +:- Germany
Severny Kavkaz 2-1 Belarus
[Aug 13]
Ukraine 3-2 Uruguay
Finland 3-2 Sibir
Moskva 9-0 Kazan
[Nikolay Starostin (4); other scorers not known]
Switzerland 7-1 Bryansk
[Khiss (2); other scorers not known]
Dalny Vostok +:- Austria
[Aug 14]
Leningrad n/p Transcaucasia
Consolation Tournament (places 17-23)
Round 1 [Aug 13]
Ivanovo 4-0 Sever
Volga 6-0 Turkmenistan
Vyatka n/p Uzbekistan
England bye
Initially, the set-up did not distinguish the entrants by geographic or national
characteristics, and all teams were supposed to compete in one general tournament
according to the "Olympic system" (knock-out).
However, after the first three days of the Spartakiad, representatives of the teams
of the Union republics demanded to separate the competion into a tournament for the
Union republics (and foreign teams formally equated to them) and another for the
regions of the RSFSR, as having a different political status.
The results of the already started tournament were cancelled and a new draw was held,
now dividing the teams according to the specified criteria into two non-overlapping
parts of the tournament grid. The first only contained teams from the RSFSR and is
interpreted as the RSFSR championship; its winners met the winners of the second
("foreign") part in the final, where the titles of champions of the USSR (only for
teams from the USSR) and winners of the Spartakiad were played out.
Union Republics and Foreign Teams
NB: 9 participants
Preliminary Round [Aug 15]
Transcaucasia 2-2 Uzbekistan [aet]
[Danielov 40og, Bodrov 44og; Aleksandr Adisman 69, Pijurin 72]
Preliminary Round Replay [Aug 16]
Transcaucasia 5-1 Uzbekistan
[Nikolay Sorokin 16, 48, Grigory Pachulia 28, Vladimir Turkiya 42,
N. Koyava 67; Aleksandr Adisman 53]
Quarterfinals
[Aug 15]
Finland 5-1 England
[Ronkanen 12, 63, Gronlund 17, 49, N.N. 5-1; Bellaptain 28pen]
[Aug 17]
Belarus 6-3 Switzerland
[Feoktistov 5, 25, Tikhomirov 24, 59, 77, Morozov 82; Khiss 22, 89, Goliat 53]
Uruguay 3-0 Turkmenistan
[U. Villar 41, R. Fernandez 65, 78]
[Aug 18]
Ukraine 2-1 Transcaucasia
[Aleksandr Shpakovsky 51, Nikolay Kapustin 60pen; Nikolay Sorokin 26]
Semifinals 5th-8th Place [Aug 19]
Uzbekistan 8-4 Switzerland [aet, Uzbekistan replaces Transcaucasia]
[Pizhurin 12, 56, 108, Aleksandr Adisman 69, 106, 111, 113, Sizov 93;
Goliat 8, Khiss 21, 37, Berger 97]
Turkmenistan 4-2 England
[Kormashev 16, Frolov 40, Sergeev 52, 75; Bellaptain 43pen, Kobb 71]
Semifinals [Aug 19]
Uruguay 3-1 Finland
[Lapera 44, R. Fernandez 47, Sevilla 48; Spiti 38]
Ukraine 6-2 Belarus
[Evgeny Gubarev 18, Petr Mishchenko 47, 53, Aleksandr Shpakovsky 61, 75, 82;
Morozov 29, Kochin 42]
Fifth Place Match [Aug 22]
Uzbekistan 3-1 Turkmenistan
[Pizhurin 12, Aleksandr Adisman 36, Sizov 43; Frolov 27]
Third Place Match [Aug 22]
Finland 2-1 Belarus
[Ronkanen 41, Gronlund 68; Tikhomirov 22]
Final [Aug 21]
Ukraine 7-1 Uruguay
[Yakov Alferov 5, Petr Mishchenko 19, 80, Aleksandr Shpakovsky 35, 65, 84,
Evgeny Gubarev 79; Sousa 9]
Championship of the Russian SFSR
NB: see full results above
Final [Aug 21]
Moskva 5-3 Leningrad
[Nikolay Starostin 20, 35, Vladimir Blinkov 53, 65, Aleksandr Kholin 76;
Mikhail Butusov 2, 82, Rushchinsky 84og]
Overall Final
Final [Aug 23]
Moskva 1-0 Ukraine
[Nikolay Troitsky 61]
Played as part of the All-Union qualifying tournament for the World Workers Spartakiad (planned to start July 4 in Berlin) in honour of the 10th anniversary of the Red Sports International (KSI). In connection with the planned Spartakiad (which never took place due to a ban by the German authorities), the tournament had to be held before the start of the season, so teams in many Russian cities were simply not ready to host matches. Therefore, many Russian regions were unable to gather and enter their teams. Participants: Moskva: Moskva Leningrad: Leningrad Northern Caucasus: Severny Kavkaz (mix from Rostov-na-Donu, Krasnodar and Taganrog) Crimea: Krimskaya ASSR (mix from Simferopol and Sevastopol) Karelia: Petrozavodsk Nizhny Novgorod: Nizhegorodskaya (mix from N. Novgorod, Sormovo, Dzherzinsk and Kanavino) Ural: Uralskaya (mix from Sverdlovsk, Perm and Motovilikhi) Ivanovo-Voznesensk: Ivanovo Quarterfinals [May 19] Severny Kavkaz 5-0 Krimskaya ASSR [May 23] Petrozavodsk 0-9 Leningrad [May 24] Nizhegorodskaya 3-1 Uralskaya [Meshcheryakov 17, Efimov 51, Nizov 51; N.N. 12] [May 25] Moskva 13-0 Ivanovo Semifinals [May 29] Leningrad 17-0 Nizhegorodskaya Moskva 3-0 Severny Kavkaz [Vasily Pavlov 17, 67, Sergey Ilyin 25] Final [Jun 9] Leningrad 3-4 Moskva [Mikhail Butusov 18, Petr Grigoriev 42, Pavel Batyrev 72pen; Vasily Pavlov 30, Sergey Ivanov 46, 56, 73]
The tournament was planned as an integral part of large-scale celebrations in honour of the 10th anniversary of the Red Sports International (KSI). Teams from the seven union republics that made up the USSR were supposed to take part in the tournament. Russian SFSR (mixed team from Moskva and Leningrad) Turkmenistan SSR (Ashgabat) Uzbekistan SSR (Tashkent team reinforced by players from Kokand) Transcaucasian SFSR (mixed team from Baku, Erevan, Leninakan and Tiflis) Tajik SSR (Dushanbe) Ukrainian SSR Belarussian SSR - withdrew Preliminary Round 1 [May 20] Uzbekistan 2-1 Tajikistan NB: presumably Turkmenistan obtained a walkover against Belarus Preliminary Round 2 [May 27] Turkmenistan 1-3 Uzbekistan NB: Russia, Transcaucasia and Ukraine bye to semifinals Semifinals [Jun 4] Russia 7-2 Uzbekistan [Jun 10] Ukraine 0-3 Transcaucasia [Ezhov 41, Vladimir Turkiya 63, V.Kostyukov 79] Final [Jun 16] Russia 7-1 Transcaucasia [Sergey Ivanov 41, 63, Petr Grigoriev 55, Vasily Pavlov 65, 71, 73, Sergey Ilyin 69; Grigory Pachulia 83pen]
Unlike previous tournaments, this time only city teams were allowed to participate. Preliminary Round [Jul 24] Novosibirsk 12-1 Alma-Ata [Jul 27] Pyatigorsk 6-0 Stalingrad Round 1 [May 24] Smolensk 3-4 Leningrad [aet] Kazan 1-2 Sverdlovsk Nizhny Novgorod 0-8 Moskva [Jul 28] Voronezh 2-1 Kalinin [Jul 30] Novosibirsk 0-5 Irkutsk Pyatigorsk 5-1 Simferopol Ivanovo bye Samara bye Quarterfinals [Aug 1] Samara 2-1 Voronezh [aet] [Gudkov (pen) 1-0; other scorers not known] [Aug 6] Sverdlovsk 4-1 rkutsk [Vazhenin 7, Fomichev 53, N.N. 60, N.N. 83; N.N. 50] [Aug 7] Pyatigorsk 1-5 Moskva [Aug 12] Ivanovo 3-7 Leningrad Semifinals [Aug 15] Moskva 12-0 Samara [Nikolay Starostin (7); other scorers not known] [Aug 18] Sverdlovsk 0-4 Leningrad [Mikhail Yakushin 9, Gavril Putilin 29, V.Osminkin 50, N.N. 63] Final [Aug 26] Leningrad 3-2 Moskva [Mikhail Butusov 23, Vladimir Kuskov 60, Evgeny Eliseev 75; Sergey Ilyin 15, Sergey Ivanov 55]
The two best teams from Russia, Ukraine and Transcaucasia, as well as the champions of Belarus and Uzbekistan were admitted to the tournament. Quarterfinals [Aug 30] Moskva 6-1 Tbilisi [Vladimir Stepanov 6, 68, Fedor Selin 11, Vasily Smirnov 42, Sergey Ilyin 46, Vasily Pavlov 49; Levan Abashidze 4] Minsk 0-4 Donbass [I. Naumov 17, Viktor Shilovsky 33, Vasily Manov 61, Boris Terentyev 73] Leningrad 4-2 Baku [Pavel Popov 18pen, Mikhail Butusov 58, Petr Dementyev 74, Evgeny Eliseev 87; Artashes Amirjanov 48, G. Malkin 49] Kharkov +:- Tashkent Semifinals [Sep 3] Moskva 9-1 Donbass [Vasily Pavlov 2, 67, Vladimir Stepanov 17, 28, 58, Nikolay Starostin 35, Vasily Smirnov 82, Sergey Ilyin 70, 74; Viktor Shilovsky 57pen] [Sep 5] Leningrad 4-3 Kharkov [Petr Dementyev 31pen, Evgeny Eliseev 40, Vasily Butusov 53, 85; Sergey Kopeiko 7, Petr Parovyshnikov 62, Aleksandr Shpakovsky 89] Final [Sep 7] Moskva 5-1 Leningrad [Nikolay Starostin 14, Vasily Pavlov 39, Vasily Smirnov 47, 89, Sergey Ilyin 69; Vasily Toptalov 81pen]
Qualifying Tournament
Group 1
Semifinals
Novosibirsk +:- Alma-Ata
Irkutsk +:- Khabarovsk
Final [Aug 17]
Novosibirsk 3-3 Irkutsk [aet]
Final Replay
Novosibirsk 1-1 Irkutsk [aet]
Final Second Replay [Aug 23]
Novosibirsk 2-0 Irkutsk
Group 2
Semifinals
Ivanovo +:- Smolensk
Arkhangelsk 3-2 Petrozavodsk
Final [Aug 18]
Ivanovo 9-1 Arkhangelsk
Group 3
Semifinals
Chelyabinsk 4-2 Ufa [aet]
Sverdlovsk 4-0 Tyumen
Final [Aug 18]
Sverdlovsk +:- Chelyabinsk [awarded to Sverdlovsk; originally 1-2,
Chelyabinsk fielded Moskva players]
Group 4
Semifinals
Simferopol +:- Pyatigorsk
Voronezh 5-2 Rostov-na-Donu
Final [Aug 18]
Voronezh 2-1 Simferopol
Group 5
Subgroup A Sam Sar Che Kaz
1.Samara 3 2 1 0 5- 2 8 xxx 2-0 1-1 2-1
2.Saratov 3 1 1 1 10- 8 6 xxx 6-2 4-4
3.Cheboksary 3 1 1 1 8-10 6 xxx 5-3
4.Kazan-2 3 0 1 2 8-11 4 xxx
Subgroup B Sta Kaz Eng Gor
1.Stalingrad 3 2 0 1 5- 0 7 xxx -:+ 5-0 +:-
2.Kazan 3 2 0 1 4- 4 7 xxx 2-3 2-1
3.Engels 3 1 0 2 3-13 5 xxx 0-6
4.Gorky 3 1 0 2 7- 2 4 xxx
Final
Stalingrad 2-1 Samara
Final Tournament
One month before the start of the final tournament, the Supreme Council of
Physical Culture (VSFK) of the USSR moved it from Gorky to Ivanovo.
Gorky, originally qualified as hosts, lost their place in the final stage
and were replaced by Chelyabinsk, runners-up (after a protest) in group 3.
Stalingrad refused to participate in the final tournament and were replaced
by Samara, runners-up in their group (5).
Moskva and Leningrad, who did not have to qualify, refused to participate.
Group A
[Sep 24]
Ivanovo 1-0 Sverdlovsk
[Boris Shchibrov (pen)]
[Sep 25]
Ivanovo 8-0 Novosibirsk
[Makar Goncharenko 63; other scorers not known]
[Sep 27]
Sverdlovsk 2-2 Novosibirsk
[N.N. 25, N.N. 54; N.N. 28, N.N. 1-2]
1.Ivanovo 2 2 0 0 9- 0 6
2.Sverdlovsk 2 0 1 1 2- 3 3
3.Novosibirsk 2 0 1 1 2-10 3
Group B
[Sep 24]
Voronezh 4-0 Samara
[N.N. 8pen, N.N. 22, N.N., N.N.]
[Sep 26]
Chelyabinsk 4-1 Samara
[N.N. (pen) 1-1, N.N. (pen) 2-1, N.N, N.N.; N.N. 20]
Voronezh 3-0 Chelyabinsk
[Skoropulov 57, Nikolay Mikheev 83, N.N.]
1.Voronezh 2 2 0 0 7- 0 6
2.Chelyabinsk 2 1 0 1 4- 4 4
3.Samara 2 0 0 2 1- 8 2
Fifth Place Match [Sep 29]
Samara 8-1 Novosibirsk
Third Place Match [Sep 30]
Sverdlovsk 2-1 Chelyabinsk
Final [Sep 30]
Ivanovo 0-5 Voronezh
[N.N. 12, A. Alekseev (0-2), 41, Nikolay Mikheev 48, N.N.-]
First Group
NB: served as "top level" tournament
Stage 1 ("Championship of the Four Cities"; played in Kiev)
[Jun 20]
Kharkov 3-2 Moskva
[Valentin Liventsev 9, Petr Parovyshnikov 53pen, Anatoly Lesnoy 58;
Sergey Ivanov 5, Mikhail Yakushin 75]
Kiev 1-3 Leningrad
[Ivan Kuzmenko 75; Vladimir Kuskov 5, 86, Mikhail Butusov 80]
[Jun 22]
Kiev 2-1 Kharkov
[Makar Goncharenko 12, Viktor Shilovsky 70; Petr Parovyshnikov 30]
Moskva 2-1 Leningrad
[Vasily Pavlov 6, Vasily Smirnov 85pen; Evgeny Nikishin 44pen]
[Jun 24]
Kiev 0-2 Moskva
[Mikhail Yakushin 6, Vasily Pavlov 35]
Leningrad 4-1 Kharkov
[Mikhail Butusov 8, 31, 80, Vladimir Kuskov 20; Petr Parovyshnikov 36pen]
Stage 2 ("Ukraine & Transcaucasia"; played in Kharkov)
[Jul 6]
Kharkov 2-2 Tbilisi
[Anatoly Lesnoy 6, Ivan Privalov 65; Akaky Kalichava 18, Ilya Panin 63]
Baku 2-1 Kiev [abandoned due to rain; replayed Jul 10]
[Viktor Smagin 5, 20; Nikolay Makhinya 65]
[Jul 8]
Kharkov 2-0 Baku [Petr Parovyshnikov 5(pen), Anatoly Lesnoy 59]
Kiev 2-0 Tbilisi
[Makar Goncharenko 65, Viktor Shilovsky 74]
[Jul 10]
Baku 1-1 Kiev [replay Jul 6]
[Viktor Pacevich 40pen; Makar Goncharenko 15]
Stage 3 ("Transcaucasia & Capitals"; played in Moscow and Leningrad)
[Jul 13]
Moskva 11-2 Tbilisi
[Vasily Smirnov 4, 67, 78, Sergey Ilyin 15, 69, Vasily Pavlov 19, 77, 82,
Mikhail Yakushin 29, 48, Aleksey Lapshin 73; Ilya Panin 13, Levan Abashidze 56]
[Jul 15]
Leningrad 0-2 Baku
[Viktor Smagin 78, Veniamin Sarkisov 90]
[Jul 19]
Leningrad 6-1 Tbilisi
[Petr Dementyev 10, 30, Nikolay Svetlov 13, Mikhail Butusov 40pen, 68,
Vladimir Kuskov 47; Levan Abashidze 39]
[Jul 22]
Moskva 7-1 Baku
[Vasily Smirnov 25, 39, Aleksey Lapshin 27, Mikhail Yakushin 43, 66, 87,
Andrey Starostin 52; Petr Shibaev 11pen]
Stage 4 ("Transcaucasia", played in Baku)
[Jul 30]
Baku 2-2 Tbilisi [annulled; appointed referee showed late, so this
[Artem Markarov (pen) 1-2, match was refereed by an unauthorised one]
Petr Perevezentsev 2-2; Mikhail Aslamazov 7, Levan Abashidze 25]
Baku 0-1 Tbilisi [replay with appointed referee]
[Mikhail Bolotin 26]
1.Moskva 5 4 0 1 24- 7 13
2.Leningrad 5 3 0 2 14- 7 11
3.Kharkov 5 2 1 2 9-10 10
Kiev 5 2 1 2 6- 7 10
5.Baku 5 1 1 3 4-11 8
Tbilisi 5 1 1 3 6-21 8
NB: 3-2-1 point system
Second Group
NB: apparently served as "second level" tournament
First Stage
Group 1 (played in Simferopol)
1.Rostov-na-Donu 2 2 0 0 4- 1 6 Qualified
2.Simferopol 3 1 0 2 4- 6 5
3.Sevastopol 3 0 0 3 1-11 3
-.Taganrog 2 2 0 0 11- 3 6 [!]
NB: total goal difference -1
[!] Taganrog walked off in their last match against Rostov-na-Donu, when their
goal keeper was sent off while 1-2 down; they were disqualified.
Group 2 (played in Dnepropetrovsk)
1.Dnepropetrovsk 3 2 0 1 17- 5 7 Qualified [g.a.: 3.40]
Stalino 3 2 0 1 6- 7 7 [g.a.: 0.86]
3.Odessa 3 1 0 2 5- 7 5
Nikolaev 3 1 0 2 2-11 5
Group 3 (played in Chelyabinsk)
1.Ivanovo 3 2 1 0 16- 0 8 Qualified [g.a.: infinite]
Chelyabinsk 3 2 1 0 14- 1 8 [g.a.: 14.00]
3.Sverdlovsk 3 1 0 2 2-11 5
4.Ufa 3 0 0 3 1-23 3
NB: total goal difference -2
Group 4A (played in Novosibirsk)
1.Novosibirsk 3 2 0 1 10- 2 7 Qualified
2.Omsk 3 1 1 1 6- 6 6
Krasnoyarsk 3 1 1 1 4- 8 6
4.Irkutsk 3 0 2 1 3- 7 5
Group 4B (played in Khabarovsk)
1.Khabarovsk 1 1 0 0 3- 2 3 Qualified
2.Vladivostok 1 0 0 1 2- 3 1
-.Ulan-Ude did not show
-.Ussuriysk did not show
Group 5A (played in Minsk)
1.Minsk 3 3 0 0 11- 4 9 Qualified
2.Smolensk 3 2 0 1 6- 2 7
3.Voronezh 3 1 0 2 6- 7 5
4-Egoryevsk 3 0 0 3 2-11 3
NB: total goal difference +1
Group 5B (played in Kalinin)
1.Kursk 2 2 0 0 8- 0 6 Qualified
2.Kalinin 2 1 0 1 5- 3 4
3.Petrozavodsk 2 0 0 2 1-11 2
-.Arkhangelsk did not show
Group 6A (played in Saratov)
1.Stalingrad 3 3 0 0 12- 3 9 Qualified
2.Engels 3 1 0 2 5- 8 5
Kuybyshev 3 1 0 2 4- 7 5
Saratov 3 1 0 2 1- 4 5
Group 6B (played in Gorky)
1.Kazan 3 3 0 0 12- 3 9 Qualified
2.Gorky 3 1 0 2 5- 8 5
Yaroslavl 3 1 0 2 4- 7 5
4.Cheboksary 3 0 0 3 4-16 3
NB: 2 more losses than wins; total goal difference -9
Group 7 (played in Tashkent)
1.Ashgabat 3 2 1 0 12- 3 8 Qualified [g.a.: 4.00]
Tashkent 3 2 1 0 10- 4 8 [g.a.: 2.50]
3.Alma-Ata 3 1 0 2 9- 9 5
4.Stalinabad 3 0 0 3 1-21 3
NB: total goal difference -5
Group 8 (played in Pyatigorsk)
Qualifying Match
Makhachkala 3-2 Grozny
1.Pyatigorsk 3 3 0 0 8- 4 9 Qualified
2.Erevan 3 1 1 1 8- 7 6
Krasnodar 3 1 1 1 4- 4 6
4.Makhachkala 3 0 0 3 2- 7 3
Second Stage
Preliminary Round
[Jun 30]
Kazan 2-0 Stalingrad
[Aleksandr Kozelkov, Karp Guzev]
[Jul 1]
Minsk 4-0 Kursk
[Anatoly Shatsky 19; other scorers not known]
Quarterfinals
[Jul 6]
Kazan 2-1 Minsk [aet]
Rostov-na-Donu 0-7 Dnepropetrovsk
[Leonid Bely 8, 54, 59, Viktor Krivosheev 14, Georgy Kurchaninov 29,
Pavel Kornilov 80, 89]
[Jul 8]
Ivanovo 7-1 Novosibirsk
[Jul 9]
Pyatigorsk 3-2 Ashgabat
[Nikolay Aleksandrov 5, Tengiz Gavasheli 8, Viktor Boyko 77pen;
Florentsev 53, Karmashev 76]
Semifinals
[Jul 10]
Dnepropetrovsk 6-4 Ivanovo
[Viktor Krivosheev 15, Leonid Bely 21, Pavel Kornilov 25, Petr Layko (4-2), N.N., N.N.;
N.N. 6, Viktor Vavilov 16, N.N. 59, N.N. 74]
[Jul 20]
Pyatigorsk 1-2 Kazan
[N.N. 83; Karp Guzev 0-1, Panteley Novitsky 75]
Final [Oct 30]
Kazan 1-2 Dnepropetrovsk
[N.N. 1-0; Petr Layko 1-1, Nikolay Naumov 1-2]
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