List of Soviet and Russian football champions
Season Champion Runner-up 3rd position Top scorer Goals
1950 CDKA Moscow ( 4 ) Dynamo Moscow Dinamo Tbilisi Nikita Simonyan ( Spartak Moscow ) 34
1951 CDSA Moscow ( 5 ) Dinamo Tbilisi Shakhter Stalino Avtandil Gogoberidze ( Dinamo Tbilisi ) 16
1952 Spartak Moscow ( 4 ) Dynamo Kiev Dynamo Moscow Andrey Zazroyev ( Dynamo Kyiv ) 11
1953 Spartak Moscow ( 5 ) Dinamo Tbilisi Torpedo Moscow Nikita Simonyan ( Spartak Moscow ) 14
1954 Dynamo Moscow ( 6 ) Spartak Moscow Spartak Minsk Anatoli Ilyin ( Spartak Moscow ) Vladimir Ilyin ( Dynamo Moscow ) Antonin Sochnev ( Trudovye Reservy Leningrad ) 11
1955 Dynamo Moscow ( 7 ) Spartak Moscow CDSA Moscow Eduard Streltsov ( Torpedo Moscow ) 15
1956 Spartak Moscow ( 6 ) Dynamo Moscow CDSA Moscow Vasily Buzunov ( ODO Sverdlovsk ) 17
1957 Dynamo Moscow ( 8 ) Torpedo Moscow Spartak Moscow Vasily Buzunov ( CSK MO Moscow ) 16
1958 Spartak Moscow ( 7 ) Dynamo Moscow CSK MO Moscow Anatoli Ilyin ( Spartak Moscow ) 19
1959 Dynamo Moscow ( 9 ) Lokomotiv Moscow Dinamo Tbilisi Zaur Kaloyev ( Dinamo Tbilisi ) 16
1960 Torpedo Moscow Dynamo Kiev Dynamo Moscow Zaur Kaloyev ( Dinamo Tbilisi ) Gennady Gusarov ( Torpedo Moscow ) 20
1961 Dynamo Kiev Torpedo Moscow Spartak Moscow Gennady Gusarov ( Torpedo Moscow ) 22
1962 Spartak Moscow ( 8 ) Dynamo Moscow Dinamo Tbilisi Mikhail Mustygin ( Belarus Minsk ) 17
Soviet League ( 1936–1991 ) -- Soviet Class A
Football had been played in Russia since the Russian Empire days in the early 1900s, but it was not until 1936, 19 years after the Russian Revolution, that the Soviet Union established a national championship of clubs. Before then local leagues in Moscow and Saint Petersburg/Leningrad were the only prominent league competitions in the country, with some national championships held intermittently from 1912 to 1933, made up of city selections. Teams in bold indicates doubles won with the Soviet Cup before 1992 and with the Russian Cup thereafter. Teams in italics include Cup winners between the 2nd and 3rd league places.