1944 Cup of USSR in Football

Кубок СССР
Tournament details
Country	Soviet Union
Defending champions	Spartak Moscow
Final positions
Champions	Zenit Leningrad
Runner-up	CDKA Moscow
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The 1944 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union.

Competition schedule

First round

[Jul 30] 
CDKA Moskva                  5-0  Traktor Stalingrad 
  [Pyotr Shcherbatenko-2, Vladimir Dyomin, Dyachenko, ?] 
DINAMO Baku                  5-1  Zenit Taganrog           [in Rostov-na-Donu] 
DINAMO Tbilisi               w/o  Dinamo Yerevan 
Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev     1-5  LOKOMOTIV Moskva 
Stakhanovets Stalino         1-5  DINAMO-2 Moskva 
  [Vasiliy Bryushin 33- Konstantin Balyasov 18, ??...] 
ZENIT Leningrad              3-1  Dinamo Moskva 
  [Viktor Bodrov 20 pen, Alexei Yablochkin 63, Boris Levin-Kogan 75 – Konstantin Beskov 86] 
[Aug 2] 
Traktor Chelyabinsk          4-6  DKA Novosibirsk 
Zenit Sverdlovsk             2-11 DINAMO Leningrad

Second round

[Aug 6] 
CDKA Moskva                  5-0  Lokomotiv Moskva 
  [Vladimir Dyomin, Valentin Nikolayev, Dyachenko, Pyotr Shcherbatenko, Alexei Grinin] 
DINAMO Baku                  2-1  Dinamo Tbilisi 
  [Artash Amirjanov 34, Korolyov 50 – Gayoz jejelava 75] 
Dinamo Ivanovo               0-6  KRYLYA SOVETOV Moskva 
Dinamo Kiev                  1-2  SPARTAK Moskva           [aet] 
  [Konstantin Kalach 61 – Nikolai Klimov 18, 117] 
DINAMO Leningrad             5-1  DKA Novosibirsk          [in Chelyabinsk]  
Dinamo-2 Moskva              0-0  Zenit Leningrad 
Lokomotiv Kharkov            2-3  AVIAUCHILISHCHE Moskva 
  [Valentin Putsenko, Boris Gurkin – Nikolai Tsutskov-2, Alexandr Striganov pen] 
Torpedo Gorkiy               2-3  TORPEDO Moskva 
  [Vasiliy Panfilov, Alexei Salakov – A.Ryomin, Anton Yakovlev, Georgiy Zharkov]

Second round replays

[Aug 7] 
Dinamo-2 Moskva              0-1  ZENIT Leningrad 
  [Alexei Larionov 39]

Quarterfinals

[Aug 13] 
Dinamo Leningrad             1-4  CDKA Moskva 
  [Oleg Oshenkov – Valentin Nikolayev-3, Grigoriy Fedotov] 
SPARTAK Moskva               1-0  AviaUchilishche Moskva 
  [Alexei Sokolov 49] 
TORPEDO Moskva               2-1  Krylya Sovetov Moskva 
  [Vasiliy Zharkov 15, Anton Yakovlev 27 – Alexandr Sevidov 82] 
ZENIT Leningrad              1-0  Dinamo Baku 
  [Sergei Salnikov 55]

Semifinals

[Aug 20] 
CDKA Moskva                  3-2  Torpedo Moskva 
  [Grigoriy Fedotov 12, Pyotr Shcherbatenko 22, Alexei Grinin 55 – Alexandr Ponomaryov 4, 75] 
[Aug 22] 
Spartak Moskva               2-2  Zenit Leningrad 
  [Nikolai Klimov 68, Georgiy Glazkov 72 – Sergei Salnikov 65, Nikolai Smirnov 78]

Semifinals replays

[Aug 23] 
Spartak Moskva               0-1  ZENIT Leningrad          [aet]
  [Boris Chuchelov 97]

Final

27 August 1944

CDKA Moscow	1 – 2	Zenit Leningrad
Grinin 35'	[ Report]	Chuchelov 58' Salnikov 68'

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