The Season's Best
| Season | Winner | Runner-ups | Notes |
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| 1936 (spring) | Dinamo Tiflis | ZIS Moscow Stalinets Leningrad |
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| 1936 (autumn) | Serp i Molot Moscow | Temp Baku Stalinets Moscow |
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| 1937 | Spartak Leningrad | FC Dynamo Rostov/Don Temp Baku |
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| 1938 | not held, part of the Super League | ||
| 1939 | Krylya Sovetov Moscow | Lokomotivi Tbilisi FC Dynamo Rostov/Don |
single round robin |
| 1940 | Krasnaya Zarya Leningrad | FC Spartak Leningrad Stroitel Yuga Baku |
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| 1941-44 | no competition due to World War II | ||
| 1945 | Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev | VVS Moscow FC Moscow Military District |
single round robin |
| 1946 | VVS Moscow | FC Pischevik Moscow | Final VVS-Pischevik 3:2 1:0 |
| 1947 | Lokomotiv Moscow | Torpedo Gorkiy Lokomotyv Kharkiv |
final between winners of six groups |
| 1948 | Lokomotyv Kharkiv | Metallurg Moscow Dynamo Yerevan |
final between winners of six groups |
| 1949 | Spartak Tbilisi | Kalinin Kaliningrad Kharchovyk Odessa |
final between winners of six groups |
| 1950 | VMS Moscow | Torpedo Gorkiy Spartak Vilnius |
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| 1951 | Kalinin | Dinamo Minsk Lokomotiv Moscow |
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| 1952 | Lokomotyv Kharkiv | Spartak Vilnius DO Tbilisi |
three preliminary groups |
| 1953 | Dynamo Minsk | Torpedo Gorkiy Shakhtar Staline |
three preliminary groups |
| 1954 | Shakhtar Staline | Spartak Vilnius Neftchi Baku |
three groups |
| 1955 | Burevestnik Chisinau ODO Sverdlovsk |
Spartak Kalinin Spartak Yerevan |
two groups, no final |
| 1956 | Spartak Minsk Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev |
Torpedo Taganrog ODO Tbilisi |
two groups, no final |
| 1957 | Avangard Leningrad | Spartak Stanislawow SK Military District Tbilisi |
four groups |
| 1958 | SK Military District Rostov-na-Donu | SK Military District Sverdlovsk SK Black-Sea Fleet Sevastopol |
final between winners of six groups |
| 1959 | Admiralteets Leningrad | Trudovye Reservy Leningrad Trud Voronezh |
seven group winners; final final between winners of four selected groups |
| 1960 | Trud Voronezh (RSFSR) Metalurh Zaporizhzhya (UkrSSR) Torpedo Kutaisi (other republics) |
FC Irtysh Omsk Sudobudivnyk Mykolaiv Lokomotivi Tbilisi |
nine groups, three final groups |
| 1961 | Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev (RSFSR) Chornomorets Odessa (UkrSSR) Torpedo Kutaisi (other republics) |
Terek Grozny SCA Odessa Lokomotivi Tbilisi |
ten groups, three final groups |
| 1962 | Spartak Krasnodar (RSFSR) Trudovye Rezervy Lugansk (UkrSSR) Shakhtyor Karaganda (other republics) |
Trud Voronezh Chornomorets Odessa Lokomotiv Gomel |
ten groups, three final groups |
| 1963 | Shinnik Yaroslavl | Torpedo Gorkiy Trud Voronezh |
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| 1964 | Lokomotiv Moscow | SCA Odessa Pakhtakor Tashkent |
two preliminary groups |
| 1965 | Ararat Yerevan | Kairat Alma-Aty Avanhard Kharkiv |
two preliminary groups |
| 1966 | Zorya Luhansk | Žalgiris Vilnius Politotdel Tashkent |
three groups |
| 1967 | Dynamo Kirovabad | Shakhtar Karaganda SCA Kyiv |
three groups |
| 1968 | Uralmash Sverdlovsk | Karpaty Lviv Irtysh Omsk |
four groups |
| 1969 | Spartak Ordzhonikidze | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk SKA Khabarovsk |
five groups |
| 1970 | Karpaty Lviv | Kairat Alma-Aty Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk |
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| 1971 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | Lokomotiv Moscow Chornomorets Odessa |
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| 1972 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | Shakhtar Donetsk FC Chornomorets Odessa |
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| 1973 | Chornomorets Odessa | Nistru Kishenev Lokomotiv Moscow |
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| 1974 | Lokomotiv Moscow | SKA Rostov/Donu Dinamo Minsk |
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| 1975 | Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev | Dinamo Minsk Torpedo Kutaisi |
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| 1976 | Kairat Almaty | Neftchi Baku Pakhtakor Tashkent |
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| 1977 | Spartak Moscow | Pakhtakor Tashkent Tavriya Simferopol |
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| 1978 | Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev | SKA Rostov/Donu Dinamo Minsk |
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| 1979 | Karpaty Lviv | Kuban Krasnodar Pamir Dushanbe |
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| 1980 | Tavriya Simferopol | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Metalist Kharkiv |
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| 1981 | Metalist Kharkiv | Torpedo Kutaisi Lokomotiv Moscow |
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| 1982 | Žalgiris Vilnius | Nistru Kishenev Kolos Nikopol |
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| 1983 | Kairat Almaty | SKA Rostov/Donu Fakel Voronezh |
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| 1984 | Fakel Voronezh | Torpedo Kutaisi SKA Karpaty Lviv |
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| 1985 | Daugava Rīga | CSKA Moscow SKA Karpaty Lviv |
two preliminary groups, two final groups |
| 1986 | CSKA Moscow | Guria Lanchkhuti Daugava Rīga |
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| 1987 | Chornomorets Odessa | Lokomotiv Moscow Daugava Rīga |
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| 1988 | Pamir Dushanbe | Rotor Volgograd CSKA Moscow |
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| 1989 | CSKA Moscow | Guria Lanchkhuti Kairat Alma-Aty |
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| 1990 | Spartak Vladikavkaz | Pakhtakor Tashkent Metalurh Zaporizhia |
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| 1991 | Rotor Volgograd | Tiligul Tiraspol Uralmash Yekaterinburg |
Last season. Russian SFSR clubs conform new Russian Top Division with compatriot clubs from Soviet Top League, and other SSR clubs do the same. |
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