Competition schedule
First round
[Jul 23]
SPARTAK Tashkent 1-0 Spartak Tbilisi
[Y.Golenbaum]
[Aug 30]
DINAMO Kutaisi 1-0 Torpedo Gorkiy
[G.Mekvabishvili]
Torpedo Kirovograd 1-2 AVANGARD Sverdlovsk
[Viktor Tretyakov – V.Listochkin, Kozhevnikov]
Torpedo Vladimir 1-2 DINAMO Alma-Ata [aet]
Zenit Kaliningrad (M.R.) 0-1 TORPEDO Stalingrad
[Dubovitskiy]
[Sep 3]
Metallurg Chimkent 1-4 METALLURG Zaporozhye [in Guryev]
[Golubev – Malakhov-2, K.Pavlov, P.Ponomaryov]
[Sep 4]
Dinamo Tallinn 1-2 KHIMIK Moskva
[Pillu 72 – Krutikov 52, Savin 56]
SPARTAK Ashkhabad 4-1 Metallurg Odessa
[S.Maduntsev 27, 28, M.Borkin 40, V.Yepikhin 77 – M.Cherkasskiy 70]
[Sep 5]
DINAMO-2 Leningrad 3-1 Kalev Tallinn
[S.Kornilov, D.Nikolin, Subbotin – Nell]
[Sep 6]
DINAMO Frunze w/o Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo
DINAMO Kishinev w/o Dinamo Minsk
DINAMO Petrozavodsk w/o Dinamo Yerevan
Dinamo Stalinabad 3-3 Avangard Chelyabinsk
[F.Rukavishnikov, N.Dolzhnikov, K.Shakirov – Semyonov, Ivanov, Tufatulin]
KHIMIK Kirovakan 1-0 Spartak Kalinin
[A.Mkhoyan]
KRASNY METALLURG Liepaja 3-0 Krylya Sovetov Molotov
NEFTYANIK Baku 4-2 Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk
[Yuriy Kuznetsov-2, Timakov-2 – Nikiforov, Chumichov]
First round replays
[Sep 7]
Dinamo Stalinabad 1-3 AVANGARD Chelyabinsk
[N.Dolzhnikov – Zhenishek, Tufatulin, Ahmanayev]
Second round
[Aug 23]
Lima Kaunas 0-4 METALLURG Dnepropetrovsk
[Shikov-2, Kozachenko, G.Ponomaryov]
Spartak Minsk 1-2 ISKRA Frunze
[Vorobyov - ?]
[Aug 24]
Lokomotiv Mary 0-9 SHAKHTYOR Stalino [in Ashkhabad]
[Ivan Boboshko-2, A.Koloskov-2, Ivan Fedosov-2, V.Churikov-2, V.Samoilov]
[Aug 28]
Dinamo Baku 2-5 TORPEDO Rostov-na-Donu
[Tsaritsyn, Dmitriyev – A.Grigoryev-2, V.Kruglov-2, G.Fursov]
[Sep 6]
Khimik Chirchik 0-3 DAUGAVA Riga
[Y.Balykin, B.Reingold, Alfons Jegers]
[Sep 7]
Spartak Tashkent 0-0 Dinamo Kutaisi
[Sep 10]
Dinamo Kishinev 1-1 Dinamo Alma-Ata
[Starostin – Mezhov]
[Sep 12]
BUREVESTNIK Kishinev 3-0 Dinamo-2 Leningrad
[Kornilov, Bakhmutov, Pyatkovskiy]
Neftyanik Baku 1-1 Khimik Moskva
[Abil-Zade 13 pen – Krutikov ?]
[Sep 13]
AVANGARD Chelyabinsk w/o Dinamo Yerevan
GORNYAK Leninabad w/o Avangard Sverdlovsk
METALLURG Zaporozhye 8-3 Khimik Kirovakan
[O.Kiknadze-2, K.Pavlov-2, P.Ponomaryov-2, B.Zozulya, I.Kostynchak – Kalashan pen, Suchkov (M) og, A.Arutyunyan]
SPARTAK Ashkhabad 2-1 Krasny Metallurg Liepaja
[Borkin 40, Bagirov 70 – G.Zviedris 81]
TORPEDO Stalingrad w/o Dinamo Frunze
Second round replays
[Sep 8]
SPARTAK Tashkent 4-2 Dinamo Kutaisi
[V.Undakov-2, V.Vitkalov, L.Maksudov – G.Mepisashvili, G.Kobzianidze]
[Sep 11]
Dinamo Kishinev 0-1 DINAMO Alma-Ata
[Sudomoyev]
[Sep 13]
NEFTYANIK Baku 4-1 Khimik Moskva
[Timakov-2, Yuriy Kuznetsov, Mikuchadze – Biryulin]
Third round
SHAKHTYOR Stalino w/o Avangard Chelyabinsk
[Sep 6]
METALLURG Dnepropetrovsk 1-0 Torpedo Rostov-na-Donu
[Shikov]
[Sep 10]
Iskra Frunze 0-2 DAUGAVA Riga
[Viktor Zhilin 30, 35]
[Sep 15]
Burevestnik Kishinev 0-1 DINAMO Alma-Ata
[Vasin]
[Sep 16]
SPARTAK Ashkhabad 1-0 Spartak Tashkent
[Borkin]
[Sep 18]
DINAMO-2 Moskva 1-0 Dinamo Petrozavodsk
GORNYAK Leninabad 8-4 Neftyanik Baku
[Zaynutdinov-2, Korobov-2, Klimanov-2, Suetin, Yushnov – Yuriy Kuznetsov-2, Suleymanov, Timakov]
METALLURG Zaporozhye 4-1 Torpedo Stalingrad
[P.Ponomaryov-2, O.Kiknadze, I.Kostynchak – Dubovitskiy]
Fourth round
[Aug 30]
SHAKHTYOR Stalino 1-0 Dinamo-2 Moskva
[Leonid Savinov 46]
[Sep 17]
DAUGAVA Riga 5-1 Metallurg Dnepropetrovsk
[Zhilin-2, Jegers-2, Balykin – Klochko]
[Sep 23]
DINAMO Alma-Ata 6-2 Gornyak Leninabad [in Moskva]
[Mezhov-2, Bolotov-2, Vasin-2 – Klimanov, Yushnov]
METALLURG Zaporozhye 6-2 Spartak Ashkhabad [in Moskva]
[I.Kostynchak-2, P.Ponomaryov-2, B.Zozulya, O.Kiknadze – Maduntsev, Yepikhin]
Fifth round
[Sep 18]
TORPEDO Moskva 3-1 Zenit Leningrad
[Vyacheslav Solovyov 7, Vitaliy Vatskevich ?, Boris Safronov ? – N.Gartvig 84]
[Sep 21]
Dinamo Moskva 2-2 Dinamo Leningrad
[Vladimir Shabrov 42, Sergei Korshunov 86 – Georgiy Grammatikopulo 2, Alexei Kolobov 3]
[Sep 22]
LOKOMOTIV Moskva 1-0 Lokomotiv Kharkov
[Yevgeniy Bologov]
[Sep 24]
Daugava Riga 0-0 Spartak Vilnius
[Sep 27]
DINAMO Tbilisi 4-0 Dinamo Kiev [in Moskva]
[Avtandil Gogoberidze 37, Zaur Kaloyev 57, Georgiy Antadze 73, Avtandil Chkuaseli 86]
SPARTAK Moskva 5-0 Metallurg Zaporozhye
[Nikolai Dementyev-3, Nikita Simonyan, Anatoliy Ilyin]
[Sep 28]
Shakhtyor Stalino 0-0 Dinamo Alma-Ata
Fifth round replays
[Sep 22]
DINAMO Moskva 3-0 Dinamo Leningrad
[Vladimir Shabrov 23, Konstantin Beskov 57, 68]
[Sep 25]
DAUGAVA Riga 1-0 Spartak Vilnius
[Viktor Zhilin 13]
[Sep 29]
SHAKHTYOR Stalino 2-0 Dinamo Alma-Ata
[Valentin Sapronov, Leonid Savinov]
Quarterfinals
[Sep 23]
Torpedo Moskva 0-1 ZENIT Kuibyshev
[Fyodor Novikov 39]
[Oct 1]
DINAMO Moskva 1-0 Dinamo Tbilisi
[Konstantin Beskov 85]
[Oct 2]
SHAKHTYOR Stalino 2-1 Daugava Riga [in Moskva]
[Valentin Sapronov, Koloskov – Janis Uzulis]
[Oct 3]
LOKOMOTIV Moskva 1-0 Spartak Moskva [aet]
[Anatoliy Bashashkin (S) 103 og]
Semifinals
[Oct 5]
DINAMO Moskva 1-0 Shakhtyor Stalino
[Vladimir Shabrov 80]
[Oct 6]
Lokomotiv Moskva 0-2 ZENIT Kuibyshev
[Alexandr Gulevskiy 21, Grigoriy Gornostayev 72]
Final