Overview
Twenty clubs of the former Soviet competition took place in this season. The league was combined out of six clubs of the Soviet Top League, 11 - Soviet First League, and the rest out of the Buffer League (Center and East). FC Spartak Moscow won the championship.
The composition of groups may seem kind of uneven with four Top League clubs in Group A and two — in Group B. However the seeding was done upon the completion of the previous Soviet season with Rotor being conditionally promoted to the top level.
| Group | Team | Head Coach | League and position in 1991 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | PFC CSKA Moscow | Pavel Sadyrin (until July) Gennadi Kostylev (from July) | Soviet Top League | 1 |
| B | FC Spartak Moscow | Oleg Romantsev | 2 | |
| B | FC Torpedo Moscow | Yevgeni Skomorokhov (until August) Yury Mironov (from August) | 3 | |
| A | FC Dynamo Moscow | Valery Gazzaev | 6 | |
| A | FC Spartak Vladikavkaz | Aleksandr Novikov | 11 | |
| A | FC Lokomotiv Moscow | Yuri Syomin | 16 | |
| B | FC Rotor Volgograd | Viktor Papayev (until May) Vladimir Faizulin (from May) | Soviet First League | 1 |
| A | FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg | Nikolai Agafonov (until August) Viktor Shishkin (from August) | 3 | |
| B | FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don | Enver Yulgushov | 4 | |
| B | FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod | Valeri Ovchinnikov | 8 | |
| A | FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin | Sergei Pavlov | 11 | |
| B | FC Shinnik Yaroslavl | Stanislav Vorotilin (until July) Valeri Frolov (from August) | 12 | |
| A | FC Fakel Voronezh | Fyodor Novikov (until July) Valeri Nenenko (from July) | 13 | |
| A | FC Dynamo Stavropol | Boris Stukalov (until July) Aleksandr Irkhin (from July) | 16 | |
| B | FC Zenit Saint Petersburg | Vyacheslav Melnikov | 18 | |
| A | FC Dynamo-Gazovik Tyumen | Serhiy Morozov (until May) Aleksei Petrushin (from May) | 20 | |
| B | FC Kuban Krasnodar | Yuri Marushkin (until July) Igor Kaleshin (from July) | 21 | |
| B | FC Asmaral Moscow | Konstantin Beskov | Soviet Second League, Center | 1 |
| B | FC Krylia Sovetov Samara | Viktor Antikhovich | 2 | |
| A | FC Okean Nakhodka | Aleksandr Averyanov | Soviet Second League, East | 1 |
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