Soviet Union 1953


1953 (Championship)
1953 (Cup)

1953 (Championship)

Class A | Class B

Class A (First Level)
 
 1.Spartak Moskva            20  11  7  2  47-15  29  Champions  [RUS] 
 2.Dinamo Tbilisi            20  11  5  4  39-24  27             [GEO] 
 3.Torpedo Moskva            20  11  3  6  34-34  25             [RUS] 
 4.Dinamo Moskva             20   8  7  5  34-19  23             [RUS] 
 5.Zenit Leningrad           20  11  1  8  25-21  23             [RUS] 
 6.Lokomotiv Moskva          20   6  6  8  21-28  18             [RUS]        
 7.Zenit Kuibyshev           20   6  5  9  22-25  17             [RUS] 
 8.Dinamo Kiev               20   6  5  9  21-26  17             [UKR] 
 9.Lokomotiv Kharkov         20   6  4 10  19-34  16  [+]        [UKR] 
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10.Dinamo Leningrad          20   5  4 11  20-33  14  Relegated     [RUS] 
11.Spartak Vilnius           20   2  7 11  10-33  11  Relegated [+] [LTU] 
--.MVO Moskva                 6   2  2  2   6- 5   6  Withdrawn     [RUS] 

Notes: Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev changed name to Zenit. 
       MVO Kalinin relocated to Moskva, and withdrew. 

Round 1 
[Apr 19] 
Dinamo K        1-0 Zenit L 
  [Viktor Belkov 20] 
Lokomotiv Kh    0-2 Dinamo M 
  [Vladimir Savdunin 36, Alexandr Tenyagin 77] 
Dinamo Tb       0-0 Spartak M 
Spartak Vil     3-1 Torpedo 
  [Stepas Petraitis 14 pen, Romualdas Lutkevicius 20, Agustin Gomez (T) 41 og – 
   Pavel Solomatin 53] 
[Apr 20] 
Lokomotiv M     2-1 Dinamo L     [in Kharkov] 
  [Ivan Larin 8, Mikhail Didevich 26 – Gennadiy Zabelin (L) 68 og] 

Round 2 
[Apr 25] 
Dinamo Tb       3-1 Zenit L 
  [Avtandil Gogoberidze 68 pen, 82 pen, Zaur Kaloyev 75 – Alexandr Ivanov 32] 
[Apr 26] 
Dinamo K        1-0 Dinamo M 
  [Pavel Vinkovatov 82] 
Zenit Kb        0-0 Spartak M 
Spartak Vil     0-0 Lokomotiv M 
Lokomotiv Kh    2-0 Dinamo L 
  [Georgiy Borzenko 4, Ivan Zherebkin 75] 

Round 3 
[May 1] 
Dinamo L        0-1 Zenit L 
  [Alexandr Ivanov 43] 
Dinamo Tb       2-0 Lokomotiv Kh 
  [Avtandil Gogoberidze 20, 50 pen] 
Torpedo         1-1 Spartak M 
  [Vitaliy Vatskevich ? – Viktor Terentyev 26] 
[May 2] 
Spartak Vil     0-0 Zenit Kb 
Dinamo M        3-1 Lokomotiv M 
  [Alexandr Tenyagin 24, Konstantin Beskov 42, 63 pen – Yuriy Korotkov 83] 

Round 4 
[May 7] 
Dinamo M        0-0 Spartak Vil 
[May 8] 
Lokomotiv M     4-1 Lokomotiv Kh 
  [Boris Pirogov, Yuriy Korotkov, Boris Lagutin, 
   Alexandr Yeroshin (LK) og – Georgiy Borzenko] 
Dinamo L        0-0 Dinamo Tb 
[May 9] 
Zenit L         0-0 Zenit Kb 
[May 10] 
Torpedo         3-2 Dinamo K 
  [Pavel Solomatin 35, Vitaliy Vatskevich 38, Ivan Gorovoi 52 – 
   Vladimir Bogdanovich 12, Andrei Zazroyev 64 pen] 

Round 5 
[May 14] 
Torpedo         2-0 Lokomotiv Kh 
  [Vitaliy Vatskevich 35, Yuriy Chaiko ?] 
Dinamo L        0-1 Zenit Kb 
  [Fyodor Novikov 46] 
[May 15] 
Dinamo M        2-2 Spartak M 
  [Vladimir Ilyin 13, 85 – Nikita Simonyan 40 pen, 73] 
[May 17] 
Spartak Vil     0-0 Dinamo K 
Zenit L         1-0 Lokomotiv M 
  [Nikolai Smirnov 30] 

Round 6 
[May 22] 
Spartak M       3-1 Dinamo K 
  [Alexei Paramonov 16, Boris Tatushin 53, Igor Netto 56 – 
   Mikhail Koman 75] 
Zenit L         1-0 Spartak Vil 
  [Alexandr Ivanov 67] 
[May 23] 
Dinamo M        2-2 Dinamo Tb 
  [Sergei Salnikov 31 pen, Vladimir Savdunin 87 – Nikolai Todria 51, 
   Konstantin Gagnidze 77] 
[May 25] 
Dinamo L        1-2 Torpedo 
  [Alexandr Dontsov 72 – Yuriy Chaiko 13, Ivan Gorovoi 15] 
[May 26] 
Zenit Kb        2-0 Lokomotiv M 
  [Alexandr Gulevskiy 78, Grigoriy Gornostayev 88] 

Round 7 
[May 27] 
Spartak M       7-0 Spartak Vil 
  [Nikolai Parshin-3, Nikita Simonyan-3, Boris Tatushin] 
[May 31] 
Lokomotiv Kh    0-2 Zenit L 
  [Friedrich Maryutin 36, Vladimir Sorokin 77] 
Dinamo K        0-1 Dinamo Tb 
  [Avtandil Gogoberidze 77] 
[Jun 1] 
Lokomotiv M     1-0 Torpedo 
  [Mikhail Mukhortov 62] 
[Jun 2] 
Zenit Kb        1-0 Dinamo M 
  [Alexandr Gulevskiy 18] 

Round 8 
[May 12] 
Lokomotiv M     4-2 Dinamo Tb 
  [Igor Petrov 23, 28, 71, Yuriy Korotkov 44 – Avtandil Gogoberidze 77, 
   Konstantin Gagnidze 90] 
[May 19] 
Zenit Kb        0-2 Torpedo 
  [Vitaliy Vatskevich 5, 28] 
[May 27] 
Zenit L         1-0 Dinamo M 
  [Pyotr Katrovskiy 60] 
[Jun 4] 
Dinamo K        3-3 Dinamo L 
  [Vladimir Bogdanovich 54, Mikhail Koman 70, Andrei Zazroyev 71 – 
   Saveliy Safronov 7, Vladimir Tsvetkov 16, Vladimir Rudnev 52] 
Lokomotiv Kh    1-0 Spartak M 
  [Georgiy Borzenko 13] 

Round 9 
[Jun 7] 
Torpedo         3-8 Dinamo M 
  [Zoltan Brenyo 35, Vitaliy Vatskevich 55, 82 – Sergei Salnikov 7, 66, Vladimir Savdunin 14, 86, 
   Boris Khrenov (T) 20 og, Vladimir Ilyin 40, 58, Sergei Korshunov 69] 
Zenit Kb        1-2 Dinamo Tb 
  [Viktor Voroshilov 88 – Zaur Kaloyev 8, Nukuri Sikharulidze 31] 
[Jun 9] 
Lokomotiv Kh    1-1 Dinamo K 
  [Alexei Azarov 31 – Andrei Zazroyev 37] 
Spartak Vil     1-3 Dinamo L 
  [Stepas Petraitis 23 – Alexei Kolobov 12, 45, Vladimir Solovyov ?] 
Spartak M       3-0 Zenit L 
  [Alexei Paramonov 44, Valentin Yemyshev 65, Nikita Simonyan ? pen] 

Round 10 [Jun 14] 
Lokomotiv Kh    2-0 Spartak Vil 
  [Sergei Chizhov 19, 27] 
Dinamo L        1-3 Dinamo M 
  [Vladimir Tsvetkov 32 – Sergei Korshunov 71, Sergei Salnikov 74, 
   Vladimir Savdunin 80] 
Dinamo Tb       4-0 Torpedo 
  [Nukuri Sikharulidze 22, Vladimir Eloshvili 39, Yuriy Vardimiadi 47, 
   Zaur Kaloyev 88] 
Dinamo K        0-1 Zenit Kb 
  [Mikhail Koman (D) 47 og] 
Lokomotiv M     3-3 Spartak M 
  [Mikhail Mukhortov 28, Yevgeniy Goryanskiy 80, Ivan Larin 85 – 
   Nikita Simonyan 15, 83, Boris Tatushin 59] 

Round 11 [Jun 21] 
Dinamo L        1-3 Spartak M 
  [Georgiy Grammatikopulo 12 – Nikita Simonyan 19, 37, Boris Tatushin 56] 
Dinamo Tb       2-1 Spartak Vil 
  [Konstantin Gagnidze 66, Zaur Kaloyev 73 – Voldemar Rilis 52] 
Lokomotiv Kh    5-2 Zenit Kb 
  [Georgiy Borzenko 17, 54, Sergei Chizhov 27, Vitaliy Zub 56, 
   Alexei Azarov 58 – Viktor Voroshilov 49, 72 pen] 
Dinamo K        0-1 Lokomotiv M 
  [Yuriy Korotkov 75] 
Torpedo         2-1 Zenit L 
  [Sergei Severov (Z) og, Zoltan Brenyo – Vladimir Dobrikov] 

Round 12 
[Jun 25] 
Dinamo M        0-0 Lokomotiv Kh 
[Jun 26] 
Spartak M       4-1 Dinamo Tb 
  [Nikolai Dementyev 10, Anatoliy M.Ilyin 26, Nikita Simonyan 30, 
   Alexei Paramonov 63 – Zaur Kaloyev 45] 
Zenit L         2-1 Dinamo K 
  [Pyotr Katrovskiy 19, Friedrich Maryutin 27 – Andrei Zazroyev 58] 
[Jun 27] 
Dinamo L        0-0 Lokomotiv M 
Torpedo         2-0 Spartak Vil 
  [Vitaliy Vatskevich, Boris Safronov] 

Round 13 
[Jun 30] 
Zenit L         2-1 Dinamo Tb 
  [Yuriy Volodin 42, Pyotr Katrovskiy 83 – Nukuri Sikharulidze 25] 
[Jul 1] 
Dinamo L        2-1 Lokomotiv Kh 
  [Alexandr Tenyagin 73, Georgiy Grammatikopulo 80 – Georgiy Borzenko 25] 
Lokomotiv M     2-0 Spartak Vil 
  [Yuriy Korotkov 5, Viktor Rogov ?] 
[Jul 2] 
Dinamo M        2-0 Dinamo K 
  [Vladimir Ilyin 54, Vladimir Ryzhkin 67] 
[Sep 11] 
Spartak M       1-0 Zenit Kb 
  [Nikita Simonyan 40] 

Round 14 
[Jul 4] 
Spartak M       7-1 Torpedo 
  [Alexei Paramonov 8, 23, Boris Tatushin 60, 72, 81, Valentin Yemyshev 67, 
   Nikita Simonyan 79 pen – Yuriy Chaiko 21] 
[Jul 5] 
Zenit L         1-2 Dinamo L 
  [Nikolai Samarin 76 – Gennadiy Bondarenko 25, 66] 
[Jul 6] 
Lokomotiv M     0-3 Dinamo M 
  [Vladimir Savdunin 16, 68, Ivan Larin (L) 20 og] 
Lokomotiv Kh    1-1 Dinamo Tb 
  [Alexei Azarov 68 – Zaur Kaloyev ?] 
Zenit Kb        3-0 Spartak Vil 
  [Alexandr Gulevskiy, Fyodor Novikov, Grigoriy Gornostayev] 

Round 15 
[Jul 9] 
Dinamo K        3-1 Torpedo 
  [Mikhail Koman 35, 84, Pavel Vinkovatov 53 – Yuriy Chaiko 72 pen] 
[Jul 10] 
Dinamo M        1-1 Spartak Vil 
  [Alexei Vodyagin 75 – Iozas Maculis 36] 
Lokomotiv Kh    1-0 Lokomotiv M 
  [Georgiy Borzenko 19] 
[Jul 12] 
Zenit Kb        1-2 Zenit L 
  [Alexandr Gulevskiy 86 – Pyotr Katrovskiy 39, Friedrich Maryutin 80] 
[Aug 2] 
Dinamo Tb       5-0 Dinamo L 
  [Avtandil Gogoberidze-2, Konstantin Gagnidze, Zaur Kaloyev, 
   Revaz Makharadze] 

Round 16 
[Jul 15] 
Lokomotiv Kh    0-0 Torpedo 
[Jul 21] 
Zenit Kb        1-3 Dinamo L 
  [Viktor Brovkin 46 – Vladimir Tsvetkov 28, Georgiy Grammatikopulo ?, ?] 
[Aug 2] 
Lokomotiv M     0-4 Zenit L 
  [Pyotr Katrovskiy-3, Alexandr Ivanov] 
[Aug 12] 
Dinamo K        1-1 Spartak Vil 
  [Andrei Zazroyev 25 – Martinas Dauksa 32] 
[Aug 27] 
Spartak M       1-1 Dinamo M 
  [Boris Tatushin 35 – Sergei Salnikov 4] 

Round 17 
[Jul 15] 
Spartak M       1-1 Lokomotiv M 
  [Valentin Yemyshev 17 – Yevgeniy Goryanskiy 40] 
[Jul 16] 
Dinamo M        2-0 Dinamo L 
  [Sergei Salnikov 20, Vladimir Ilyin 38] 
[Jul 21] 
Spartak Vil     0-2 Lokomotiv Kh 
  [Vitaliy Zub 71, Georgiy Borzenko 78 pen] 
[Aug 30] 
Zenit Kb        0-1 Dinamo K 
  [Mikhail Koman 71] 
[Sep 7] 
Torpedo         4-1 Dinamo Tb 
  [Valentin Ivanov 25, Yuriy Zolotov 33, Vyacheslav Solovyov ?, 
   Yevgeniy Malov ? – Avtandil Gogoberidze ?] 

Round 18 
[Jul 30] 
Dinamo K        0-2 Spartak M 
  [Vsevolod Bobrov 50, 84] 
[Aug 7] 
Dinamo Tb       3-2 Dinamo M 
  [Alexandr Kotrikadze 33, Avtandil Gogoberidze 48, Avtandil Chkuaseli 74 – 
   Vladimir Ryzhkin 59, Konstantin Beskov 76 pen] 
[Aug 8] 
Lokomotiv M     1-1 Zenit Kb 
  [Alexandr Skorokhov (Z) 75 og – Alexandr Gulevskiy 89] 
[Aug 14] 
Torpedo         2-1 Dinamo L 
  [Valentin Ivanov 26, Viktor Fyodorov 50 – Georgiy Grammatikopulo 15] 
[Aug 19] 
Spartak Vil     1-0 Zenit L 
  [Vitautas Saunoris 34] 

Round 19 
[Jul 26] 
Dinamo Tb       3-0 Lokomotiv M 
  [Avtandil Gogoberidze 50, Avtandil Chkuaseli 74, Nukuri Sikharulidze 86] 
[Aug 3] 
Torpedo         5-1 Zenit Kb 
  [Viktor Fyodorov-3, Vitaliy Vatskevich pen, Valentin Ivanov – 
   Viktor Voroshilov] 
[Aug 12] 
Spartak M       3-0 Lokomotiv Kh 
  [Nikolai Dementyev, Nikita Simonyan, Valentin Yemyshev] 
[Aug 13] 
Dinamo M        2-0 Zenit L 
  [Sergei Korshunov 40, 70] 
[Sep 13] 
Dinamo L        1-1 Dinamo K 
  [Alexandr Dontsov 60 – Pavel Vinkovatov 3] 

Round 20 
[Jul 28] 
Zenit L         5-2 Lokomotiv Kh 
  [Pyotr Katrovskiy 5, Yuriy Volodin 25, 27, 29, Yuriy Voinov 35 – 
   Vitaliy Zub 19, Alexei Azarov 80] 
[Aug 7] 
Spartak Vil     1-4 Spartak M 
  [Raimondas Beinoravicus 88 – Aleksandras Maculis (SV) 9 og, Pranas Lutkevicius (SV) 18 og, 
   Vsevolod Bobrov 48, Valentin Yemyshev 86] 
[Aug 18] 
Torpedo         0-0 Lokomotiv M 
Dinamo Tb       3-0 Dinamo K 
  [Avtandil Chkuaseli 30, Avtandil Gogoberidze 40, Konstantin Gagnidze 72] 
[Sep 6] 
Dinamo M        1-1 Zenit Kb 
  [Konstantin Beskov 12 – Boris Zapryagayev 41] 

Round 21 
[Aug 8] 
Zenit L         0-2 Torpedo 
  [Yevgeniy Malov 60, Vitaliy Vatskevich 80] 
[Aug 19] 
Zenit Kb        5-0 Lokomotiv Kh 
  [Alexandr Gulevskiy 34, Viktor Voroshilov 43 pen, 70 pen, Fyodor Novikov 62, 
   Nikolai Zaitsev 84] 
[Aug 23] 
Lokomotiv M     1-2 Dinamo K 
  [Boris Lagutin 50 – Viktor Fomin 45, Mikhail Koman 62] 
[Aug 30] 
Spartak Vil     1-1 Dinamo Tb 
  [Zenonas Ganusauskas 7 – Avtandil Gogoberidze 24] 
[Sep 2] 
Spartak M       2-0 Dinamo L 
  [Nikolai Parshin 60, Anatoliy M.Ilyin ?] 

Round 22 
[Aug 4] 
Dinamo K        3-0 Lokomotiv Kh 
  [Mikhail Koman 10, Andrei Zazroyev 55, Mikhail Mikhalina 78] 
[Aug 13] 
Dinamo Tb       2-1 Zenit Kb 
  [Avtandil Gogoberidze 2 pen, Alexandr Kotrikadze 35 – Alexandr Gulevskiy 60] 
[Sep 6] 
Dinamo L        1-0 Spartak Vil 
  [Gennadiy Bondarenko 8] 
[Sep 7] 
Zenit L         1-0 Spartak M 
  [Yuriy Volodin 13] 
[Sep 10] 
Dinamo M        0-1 Torpedo 
  [Yevgeniy Malov 88] 

Final Table: 

 1.Spartak Moskva            20  11  7  2  47-15  29  Champions  [RUS] 
 2.Dinamo Tbilisi            20  11  5  4  39-24  27             [GEO] 
 3.Torpedo Moskva            20  11  3  6  34-34  25             [RUS] 
 4.Dinamo Moskva             20   8  7  5  34-19  23             [RUS] 
 5.Zenit Leningrad           20  11  1  8  25-21  23             [RUS] 
 6.Lokomotiv Moskva          20   6  6  8  21-28  18             [RUS]        
 7.Zenit Kuibyshev           20   6  5  9  22-25  17             [RUS] 
 8.Dinamo Kiev               20   6  5  9  21-26  17             [UKR] 
 9.Lokomotiv Kharkov         20   6  4 10  19-34  16  [+]        [UKR] 
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10.Dinamo Leningrad          20   5  4 11  20-33  14  Relegated     [RUS] 
11.Spartak Vilnius           20   2  7 11  10-33  11  Relegated [+] [LTU] 
--.MVO Moskva                 6   2  2  2   6- 5   6  Withdrawn     [RUS] 

Notes: Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev changed name to Zenit. 
       MVO Kalinin relocated to Moskva, and withdrew. 

Top scorers: 

1.Avtandil Gogoberidze (Dinamo Tb)  14 
  Nikita Simonyan (Spartak M)       14 
3.Vitaliy Vatskevich (Torpedo)       9 
4.Georgiy Borzenko (Lokomotiv Kh)    8 
  Pyotr Katrovskiy (Zenit L)         8 
  Boris Tatushin (Spartak M)         8 
7.Alexandr Gulevskiy (Zenit Kb)      7 
  Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tb)           7 
  Mikhail Koman (Dinamo K)           7 
  Vladimir Savdunin (Dinamo M)       7 


Class B (Second Level)

First stage

Zone I

1.Spartak Tbilisi               15  10  4  1  42-12  24  [+]        [GEO] 
2.Dinamo Yerevan                15   9  3  3  24-17  21             [ARM] 
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3.Torpedo Rostov-na-Donu        15   8  3  4  33-18  19  [+]        [RUS] 
4.Neftyanik Baku                15   7  3  5  36-17  17             [AZE]  
5.Dinamo Alma-Ata               15   7  2  6  27-18  16             [KAZ] 
6.Spartak Ashkhabad             15   7  0  8  21-38  14             [TKM] 
7.Spartak Tashkent               8   3  1  4   8-11   7  [+]        [UZB] 
8.Iskra Frunze                  15   3  0 12  16-53   6  [+]        [KGZ] 
9.Gornyak Leninabad             15   1  2 12  14-46   4  [+]        [TJK] 

Cross-Table: 
                     1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9      
1.Spartak Tb        xxx 1-1 9-1 4-1 2-0 4-0  -  5-1 2-0    
2.Dinamo Yer        0-0 xxx 1-0 1-0 3-0 2-0  -  6-0 2-0    
3.Torpedo R/D       0-0 3-1 xxx 4-1 2-1 0-1  -  4-0 3-0    
4.Neftyanik         2-2 0-2 0-0 xxx 0-0 4-1  -  8-0 7-0    
5.Dinamo A-A        2-0 0-0 3-1 2-1 xxx 3-0 0-2 4-0 5-2     
6.Spartak Ash       2-3 1-4 0-9 0-3 2-0 xxx 1-0 2-1 5-1    
7.Spartak Tash      0-4 1-0 0-2 1-3  -   -  xxx 3-0  -   
8.Iskra             1-2 1-0 0-4 0-5 3-0 3-4  -  xxx 2-3    
9.Gornyak           1-3 0-1 1-1 0-1 1-7 1-2 1-1 3-4 xxx   


Zone II

 1.Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo       17  10  4  3  27- 9  24             [RUS] 
 2.Dinamo Minsk                  17   9  6  2  25-12  24  [-]        [BLR] 
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 3.Metallurg Odessa              17   6  8  3  20-12  20  [+]        [UKR] 
 4.Zenit Kaliningrad (M.R.)      17   7  5  5  19-18  19  [+]        [RUS] 
 5.Daugava Riga                  17   6  5  6  24-22  17  [-]        [LVA] 
 6.Burevestnik Kishinev          17   4  8  5  14-20  16             [MDA] 
 7.Kalev Tallinn                 17   4  6  7   9-19  14             [EST] 
 8.Spartak Kalinin               17   4  3 10  20-25  11  [+]        [RUS] 
 9.Khimik Moskva                  9   4  1  4  17-13   9  [+]        [RUS] 
10.Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk  17   2  4 11  15-40   8             [KRL] 

Cross-Table: 
                     1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10      
 1.Kr Znamya        xxx 1-1 0-0 2-0 3-0 4-0 1-1 2-1 2-0 2-0  
 2.Dinamo Mn        0-0 xxx 3-1 3-0 4-2 0-0 1-1 3-0  -  3-0   
 3.Metallurg Od     2-0 1-1 xxx 2-0 0-0 0-1 2-0 0-0 3-1 2-2   
 4.Zenit Kld        0-3 2-0 0-0 xxx 0-0 1-1 3-0 1-0  -  2-1   
 5.Daugava          3-1 1-1 0-3 1-1 xxx 0-0 2-0 4-0  -  4-0   
 6.Burevestnik      0-1 0-1 2-2 2-0 0-2 xxx 0-0 3-2 1-1 3-2   
 7.Kalev            1-0 0-1 1-0 0-2 2-0 0-0 xxx 0-0 2-5 1-0 
 8.Spartak Kal      0-1 2-0 0-1 0-2 4-2 3-0 0-0 xxx 0-2 7-2  
 9.Khimik            -  0-1  -  2-4 3-0  -   -   -  xxx 3-0 
10.Kr Zvezda        0-4 1-2 1-1 1-1 0-3 1-1 2-0 2-1  -  xxx    


Zone III 

1.Shakhtyor Stalino             14   9  4  1  33- 9  22  [-]        [UKR] 
2.Torpedo Gorkiy                14  10  1  3  38-23  21             [RUS] 
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3.Metallurg Zaporozhye          14   6  3  5  34-26  15  [+]        [UKR] 
4.Torpedo Stalingrad            14   7  1  6  25-22  15             [RUS] 
5.Avangard Chelyabinsk          14   5  4  5  18-22  14  [+]        [RUS] 
6.Krylya Sovetov Molotov        14   4  3  7  18-29  11  [+]        [RUS] 
7.Avangard Sverdlovsk           14   3  2  9  19-33   8  [+]        [RUS] 
8.Metallurg Dnepropetrovsk      14   2  2 10  14-35   6  [+]        [UKR] 

Cross-Table: 
                     1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8        
1.Shakhtyor         xxx 2-3 0-0 2-1 2-0 1-0 4-0 4-0    
2.Torpedo Gor       0-4 xxx 2-2 3-2 2-1 3-1 4-0 3-1     
3.Metallurg Zap     1-1 5-3 xxx 1-2 3-0 5-1 3-1 4-1     
4.Torpedo Stgd      1-1 2-1 3-2 xxx 0-1 6-1 2-1 2-0    
5.Avangard Chel     0-3 1-5 3-1 4-0 xxx 0-0 1-0 2-2      
6.Kr Sovetov        2-2 1-3 4-0 2-1 1-1 xxx 2-3 1-0     
7.Avangard Sv       1-4 1-3 5-2 0-3 1-1 1-2 xxx 1-1  
8.Metallurg Dn      0-3 0-3 0-5 3-0 2-3 3-0 1-4 xxx    


Second stage

For places 1-6 

[Sep 13-27, Gorkiy]  

1.Dinamo Minsk                   5   4  1  0  11- 1   9  Promoted [-] [BLR] 
2.Torpedo Gorkiy                 5   3  1  1   9- 4   7  Promoted     [RUS] 
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3.Shakhtyor Stalino              5   3  0  2   6- 5   6  [-]        [UKR] 
4.Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo        5   2  0  3   6-10   4             [RUS] 
5.Dinamo Yerevan                 5   0  3  2   2- 5   3             [ARM] 
6.Spartak Tbilisi                5   0  1  4   1-10   1  [+]        [GEO] 

Cross-Table: 
                     1   2   3   4   5   6          
1.Dinamo Mn         xxx 2-0 1-0 4-1 0-0 4-0     
2.Torpedo Gor       0-2 xxx 3-0 3-1 1-1 2-0      
3.Shakhtyor         0-1 0-3 xxx 2-0 2-0 2-1      
4.Kr Znamya         1-4 1-3 0-2 xxx 2-1 2-0     
5.Dinamo Yer        0-0 1-1 0-2 1-2 xxx 0-0       
6.Spartak Tb        0-4 0-2 1-2 0-2 0-0 xxx      

For places 7-9

7.Metallurg Odessa              2   2  0  0   5-1  4  [+]        [UKR] 
8.Torpedo Rostov-na-Donu        2   1  0  1   5-5  2  [+]        [RUS] 
9.Metallurg Zaporozhye          2   0  0  2   5-9  0  [+]        [UKR] 

Cross-Table: 
                     7   8   9            
7.Metallurg Od      xxx 1-0 4-1      
8.Torpedo R/D       0-1 xxx 5-4      
9.Metallurg Zap     1-4 4-5 xxx       

For places 10-12 

[Sep 27 - Oct 1, Baku]

10.Zenit Kaliningrad (M.R.)       2   2  0  0   3-1  4  [+]        [RUS] 
11.Neftyanik Baku                 2   1  0  1   3-3  2             [AZE]  
12.Torpedo Stalingrad             2   0  0  2   3-5  0             [RUS] 

Cross-Table: 
                      10  11  12            
10.Zenit Kld         xxx 1-0 2-1 
11.Neftyanik         0-1 xxx 3-2 
12.Torpedo Stgd      1-2 2-3 xxx 

For places 13-15 

[Oct 11, Riga] 

Daugava Riga  2-0 Avangard Chelyabinsk 

Dinamo Alma-Ata withdrew. 

For places 16-18 

[Sep 29 – Oct 3, Kishinev] 

16.Burevestnik Kishinev           2   1  1  0   5-2   3             [MDA] 
17.Krylya Sovetov Molotov         2   1  0  1   2-4   3  [+]        [RUS] 
18.Spartak Ashkhabad              2   0  1  1   1-2   1             [TKM] 

Cross-Table: 
                      16  17  18            
16.Burevestnik       xxx 4-1 1-1
17.Kr Sovetov        1-4 xxx 1-0 
18.Spartak Ash       1-1 0-1 xxx 

For places 19-21 

[Sep 27 – Oct 1, Sverdlovsk] 

19.Avangard Sverdlovsk            2   2  0  0   9-1   4  [+]        [RUS] 
20.Kalev Tallinn                  2   1  0  1   2-2   2             [EST] 
21.Spartak Tashkent               2   0  0  2   1-9   0  [+]        [UZB] 

Cross-Table: 
                      19  20  21            
19.Avangard Sv       xxx 2-0 7-1 
20.Kalev             0-2 xxx 2-0 
21.Spartak Tash      1-7 0-2 xxx  

For places 22-24 

[Sep 26-29, Dnepropetrovsk] 

22.Metallurg Dnepropetrovsk       2   2  0  0   5- 0   4  [+]        [UKR] 
23.Spartak Kalinin                2   1  0  1   9- 5   2  [+]        [RUS] 
24.Iskra Frunze                   2   0  0  2   2-11   0  [+]        [KGZ] 

Cross-Table: 
                      22  23  24            
22.Metallurg Dn      xxx 3-0 2-0  
23.Spartak Kal       0-3 xxx 9-2  
24.Iskra             0-2 2-9 xxx   

For places 25-27 

[Sep 25-29, Moskva] 

25.Khimik Moskva                  2   1  1  0   8- 1   3  [+]        [RUS] 
26.Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk   2   1  1  0   6- 2   3             [KRL] 
27.Gornyak Leninabad              2   0  0  2   1-12   0  [+]        [TJK] 

Cross-Table: 
                      25  26  27            
25.Khimik            xxx 1-1 7-0  
26.Kr Zvezda         1-1 xxx 5-1   
27.Gornyak           0-7 1-5 xxx    




Soviet Union Cup 1953

First Round 
[Jul 23] 
SPARTAK Tashkent             1-0  Spartak Tbilisi 
  [Y.Golenbaum] 
[Aug 30] 
DINAMO Kutaisi               1-0  Torpedo Gorkiy 
  [G.Mekvabishvili] 
Torpedo Kirovograd           1-2  AVANGARD Sverdlovsk 
  [Viktor Tretyakov – V.Listochkin, Kozhevnikov] 
Torpedo Vladimir             1-2  DINAMO Alma-Ata               [aet] 
Zenit Kaliningrad (M.R.)     0-1  TORPEDO Stalingrad 
  [Dubovitskiy] 
[Sep 3] 
Metallurg Chimkent           1-4  METALLURG Zaporozhye     [in Guryev] 
  [Golubev – Malakhov-2, K.Pavlov, P.Ponomaryov] 
[Sep 4] 
Dinamo Tallinn               1-2  KHIMIK Moskva 
  [Pillu 72 – Krutikov 52, Savin 56] 
SPARTAK Ashkhabad            4-1  Metallurg Odessa 
  [S.Maduntsev 27, 28, M.Borkin 40, V.Yepikhin 77 – M.Cherkasskiy 70] 
[Sep 5] 
DINAMO-2 Leningrad           3-1  Kalev Tallinn 
  [S.Kornilov, D.Nikolin, Subbotin – Nell] 
[Sep 6] 
DINAMO Frunze                w/o  Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo 
DINAMO Kishinev              w/o  Dinamo Minsk 
DINAMO Petrozavodsk          w/o  Dinamo Yerevan 
Dinamo Stalinabad            3-3  Avangard Chelyabinsk 
  [F.Rukavishnikov, N.Dolzhnikov, K.Shakirov – Semyonov, 
   Ivanov, Tufatulin] 
KHIMIK Kirovakan             1-0  Spartak Kalinin 
  [A.Mkhoyan] 
KRASNY METALLURG Liepaja     3-0  Krylya Sovetov Molotov 
NEFTYANIK Baku               4-2  Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk 
  [Yuriy Kuznetsov-2, Timakov-2 – Nikiforov, Chumichov] 

First Round Replay [Sep 7] 
Dinamo Stalinabad            1-3  AVANGARD Chelyabinsk 
  [N.Dolzhnikov – Zhenishek, Tufatulin, Ahmanayev] 

Second Round  
[Aug 23] 
Lima Kaunas                  0-4  METALLURG Dnepropetrovsk 
  [Shikov-2, Kozachenko, G.Ponomaryov] 
Spartak Minsk                1-2  ISKRA Frunze 
  [Vorobyov - ?] 
[Aug 24] 
Lokomotiv Mary               0-9  SHAKHTYOR Stalino        [in Ashkhabad] 
  [Ivan Boboshko-2, A.Koloskov-2, Ivan Fedosov-2, V.Churikov-2, 
   V.Samoilov] 
[Aug 28] 
Dinamo Baku                  2-5  TORPEDO Rostov-na-Donu 
  [Tsaritsyn, Dmitriyev – A.Grigoryev-2, V.Kruglov-2, G.Fursov] 
[Sep 6] 
Khimik Chirchik              0-3  DAUGAVA Riga 
  [Y.Balykin, B.Reingold, Alfons Jegers] 
[Sep 7] 
Spartak Tashkent             0-0  Dinamo Kutaisi 
[Sep 10] 
Dinamo Kishinev              1-1  Dinamo Alma-Ata 
  [Starostin – Mezhov] 
[Sep 12] 
BUREVESTNIK Kishinev         3-0  Dinamo-2 Leningrad 
  [Kornilov, Bakhmutov, Pyatkovskiy] 
Neftyanik Baku               1-1  Khimik Moskva 
  [Abil-Zade 13 pen – Krutikov ?] 
[Sep 13] 
AVANGARD Chelyabinsk         w/o  Dinamo Yerevan       
GORNYAK Leninabad            w/o  Avangard Sverdlovsk 
METALLURG Zaporozhye         8-3  Khimik Kirovakan 
  [O.Kiknadze-2, K.Pavlov-2, P.Ponomaryov-2, B.Zozulya, I.Kostynchak – 
   Kalashan pen, Suchkov (M) og, A.Arutyunyan] 
SPARTAK Ashkhabad            2-1  Krasny Metallurg Liepaja 
  [Borkin 40, Bagirov 70 – G.Zviedris 81] 
TORPEDO Stalingrad           w/o  Dinamo Frunze 

Second Round Replays 
[Sep 8] 
SPARTAK Tashkent             4-2  Dinamo Kutaisi 
  [V.Undakov-2, V.Vitkalov, L.Maksudov – G.Mepisashvili, 
   G.Kobzianidze] 
[Sep 11] 
Dinamo Kishinev              0-1  DINAMO Alma-Ata 
  [Sudomoyev] 
[Sep 13] 
NEFTYANIK Baku               4-1  Khimik Moskva 
  [Timakov-2, Yuriy Kuznetsov, Mikuchadze – Biryulin] 

Third Round  
SHAKHTYOR Stalino            w/o  Avangard Chelyabinsk 
[Sep 6] 
METALLURG Dnepropetrovsk     1-0  Torpedo Rostov-na-Donu 
  [Shikov] 
[Sep 10] 
Iskra Frunze                 0-2  DAUGAVA Riga 
  [Viktor Zhilin 30, 35] 
[Sep 15] 
Burevestnik Kishinev         0-1  DINAMO Alma-Ata 
  [Vasin] 
[Sep 16] 
SPARTAK Ashkhabad            1-0  Spartak Tashkent 
  [Borkin] 
[Sep 18] 
DINAMO-2 Moskva              1-0  Dinamo Petrozavodsk 
GORNYAK Leninabad            8-4  Neftyanik Baku 
  [Zaynutdinov-2, Korobov-2, Klimanov-2, Suetin, Yushnov – 
   Yuriy Kuznetsov-2, Suleymanov, Timakov] 
METALLURG Zaporozhye         4-1  Torpedo Stalingrad   
  [P.Ponomaryov-2, O.Kiknadze, I.Kostynchak – Dubovitskiy] 

Fourth Round 
[Aug 30] 
SHAKHTYOR Stalino            1-0  Dinamo-2 Moskva 
  [Leonid Savinov 46] 
[Sep 17] 
DAUGAVA Riga                 5-1  Metallurg Dnepropetrovsk 
  [Zhilin-2, Jegers-2, Balykin – Klochko] 
[Sep 23] 
DINAMO Alma-Ata              6-2  Gornyak Leninabad        [in Moskva] 
  [Mezhov-2, Bolotov-2, Vasin-2 – Klimanov, Yushnov] 
METALLURG Zaporozhye         6-2  Spartak Ashkhabad        [in Moskva] 
  [I.Kostynchak-2, P.Ponomaryov-2, B.Zozulya, O.Kiknadze – 
   Maduntsev, Yepikhin] 

Fifth Round 
[Sep 18] 
TORPEDO Moskva               3-1  Zenit Leningrad 
  [Vyacheslav Solovyov 7, Vitaliy Vatskevich ?, Boris Safronov ? – 
   N.Gartvig 84] 
[Sep 21] 
Dinamo Moskva                2-2  Dinamo Leningrad 
  [Vladimir Shabrov 42, Sergei Korshunov 86 – Georgiy Grammatikopulo 2, 
   Alexei Kolobov 3] 
[Sep 22] 
LOKOMOTIV Moskva             1-0  Lokomotiv Kharkov 
  [Yevgeniy Bologov] 
[Sep 24] 
Daugava Riga                 0-0  Spartak Vilnius 
[Sep 27] 
DINAMO Tbilisi               4-0  Dinamo Kiev              [in Moskva] 
  [Avtandil Gogoberidze 37, Zaur Kaloyev 57, Georgiy Antadze 73, 
   Avtandil Chkuaseli 86] 
SPARTAK Moskva               5-0  Metallurg Zaporozhye 
  [Nikolai Dementyev-3, Nikita Simonyan, Anatoliy Ilyin] 
[Sep 28] 
Shakhtyor Stalino            0-0  Dinamo Alma-Ata 

Fifth Round Replays 
[Sep 22] 
DINAMO Moskva                3-0  Dinamo Leningrad 
  [Vladimir Shabrov 23, Konstantin Beskov 57, 68] 
[Sep 25] 
DAUGAVA Riga                 1-0  Spartak Vilnius 
  [Viktor Zhilin 13] 
[Sep 29] 
SHAKHTYOR Stalino            2-0  Dinamo Alma-Ata 
  [Valentin Sapronov, Leonid Savinov] 

Quarterfinals 
[Sep 23] 
Torpedo Moskva               0-1  ZENIT Kuibyshev 
  [Fyodor Novikov 39] 
[Oct 1] 
DINAMO Moskva                1-0  Dinamo Tbilisi 
  [Konstantin Beskov 85] 
[Oct 2] 
SHAKHTYOR Stalino            2-1  Daugava Riga             [in Moskva] 
  [Valentin Sapronov, Koloskov – Janis Uzulis] 
[Oct 3] 
LOKOMOTIV Moskva             1-0  Spartak Moskva                [aet] 
  [Anatoliy Bashashkin (S) 103 og] 

Semifinals 
[Oct 5] 
DINAMO Moskva                1-0  Shakhtyor Stalino 
  [Vladimir Shabrov 80] 
[Oct 6] 
Lokomotiv Moskva             0-2  ZENIT Kuibyshev 
  [Alexandr Gulevskiy 21, Grigoriy Gornostayev 72] 

Final [Oct 10] 
DINAMO Moskva                1-0  Zenit Kuibyshev 
  [Sergei Salnikov 7] 





1952

1954

list of champions

list of cup finals


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