Top 5 Sports Societies
In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different sports societies in one team.
| Pos | Sports society | Total | |||
| 1 | Armed Forces | 33 | 18 | 18 | 69 |
| 2 | Dynamo | 28 | 10 | 16 | 54 |
| 3 | VSS Burevestnik | 11 | 6 | 5 | 22 |
| 4 | VSS Spartak | 9 | 3 | 3 | 15 |
| 5 | VSS Trud | 7 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
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