20 teams took part in the league with FC Spartak Moscow winning the championship.

Round 1

Group A

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Dynamo Kyiv	18	10	8	0	25	6	+19	28	Qualification for Places 1–14 group
2	CSKA Moscow	18	9	6	3	18	8	+10	24
3	Dynamo Moscow	18	7	4	7	17	18	−1	18
4	SKA Rostov-on-Don	18	7	4	7	20	24	−4	18
5	Zarya Voroshilovgrad	18	6	5	7	19	16	+3	17
6	Neftchi Baku	18	5	7	6	16	18	−2	17
7	Chornomorets Odessa	18	5	7	6	14	17	−3	17
8	Ararat Yerevan	18	6	5	7	18	23	−5	17	Qualification for Places 15–20 group
9	Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast	18	4	6	8	9	18	−9	14
10	Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev	18	3	4	11	16	24	−8	10

Results

Group B

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spartak Moscow	18	14	3	1	29	9	+20	31	Qualification for Places 1–14 group
2	Dinamo Tbilisi	18	8	9	1	22	7	+15	25
3	Shakhtar Donetsk	18	5	8	5	20	17	+3	18
4	Torpedo Moscow	18	5	8	5	15	14	+1	18
5	Dinamo Minsk	18	5	6	7	16	19	−3	16
6	Zenit Leningrad	18	5	6	7	14	18	−4	16
7	Torpedo Kutaisi	18	7	2	9	17	27	−10	16
8	Kairat Alma-Ata	18	4	7	7	15	18	−3	15	Qualification for Places 15–20 group
9	Pakhtakor Tashkent	18	6	3	9	16	23	−7	15
10	Lokomotiv Moscow	18	2	6	10	13	25	−12	10

Results

Round 2

Places 1–14

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spartak Moscow (C)	26	19	5	2	40	11	+29	43	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Dynamo Kyiv	26	16	7	3	37	13	+24	39
3	Dinamo Tbilisi	26	12	11	3	34	17	+17	35
4	Dynamo Moscow	26	12	7	7	44	28	+16	31
5	Torpedo Moscow	26	11	9	6	29	19	+10	31
6	CSKA Moscow	26	10	9	7	19	14	+5	29
7	Neftchi Baku	26	6	11	9	26	27	−1	23
8	FC Chornomorets Odessa	26	7	7	12	17	26	−9	21
9	Zenit Leningrad	26	6	9	11	21	34	−13	21
10	Shakhtar Donetsk	26	6	8	12	20	28	−8	20
11	Zarya Voroshilovgrad	26	5	9	12	21	30	−9	19
12	SKA Rostov-on-Don	26	6	7	13	23	37	−14	19
13	Dinamo Minsk	26	5	9	12	14	31	−17	19
14	Torpedo Kutaisi	26	4	6	16	20	50	−30	14

Results

Top scorers

16 goals

• Dzhemal Kherhadze (Torpedo Kutaisi)
• Nikolai Osyanin (Spartak Moscow)
• Vladimir Proskurin (SKA Rostov-on-Don)

12 goals

• Galimzyan Khusainov (Spartak Moscow)

11 goals

• Ruslan Abdullayev (Neftchi)

10 goals

• Givi Nodia (Dinamo Tbilisi)

9 goals

• Yuri Avrutskiy (Dynamo Moscow)
• Anatoli Shakun (Zorya)
• Yuri Semin (Dynamo Moscow)

8 goals

• Vitaly Khmelnitsky (Dynamo Kyiv)
• Vladimir Larin (Dynamo Moscow)
• Valeri Maslov (Dynamo Moscow)
• David Pais (Torpedo Moscow)
• Anatoliy Puzach (Dynamo Kyiv)
• Viktor Serebryannikov (Dynamo Kyiv)

Places 15–20

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
15	Ararat Yerevan	34	13	11	10	48	40	+8	37
16	Pakhtakor Tashkent	34	13	9	12	35	37	−2	35
17	Kairat Alma-Ata (R)	34	12	10	12	29	31	−2	34	Relegation to Class A First Group
18	Lokomotiv Moscow (R)	34	8	9	17	33	47	−14	25
19	Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev (R)	34	8	8	18	34	48	−14	24
20	Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast (R)	34	7	8	19	19	39	−20	22

Results

Top scorers

14 goals

• Oganes Zanazanyan (Ararat)

13 goals

• Boris Kazakov (Krylia Sovetov)

9 goals

• Nikolai Kazaryan (Ararat)

8 goals

• Rudolf Atamalyan (Lokomotiv Moscow)
• Vyacheslav Bektashev (Pakhtakor)
• Gennadi Krasnitsky (Pakhtakor)