Football at the 1956 Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR

1956 Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR football tournament
Tournament details
Host country	Moscow
Dates	2 August – 16 August
Teams	18
Venue(s)	5 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Moscow (2nd title)
Runners-up	Georgian SSR
Third place	Ukrainian SSR
Fourth place	Leningrad
Tournament statistics
Matches played	37
Goals scored	134 (3.62 per match)
	1979 →

The football tournament at the 1956 Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR was a preparatory competition for the Soviet Union national football team for the upcoming 1956 Summer Olympics. The competition took place on August 2 – 16, 1956 as part of the Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR. The Soviet team has already qualified for the Olympic tournament by winning a play-off match up against Israel national football team earlier in July 1956 (Association football at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification). The Soviet team competed under the name of the Moscow city team.

Before the tournament, on 16 July 1956 Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic was annexed by the Russian SFSR by changing its status from a union republic to an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR. Nonetheless, the team of the Karelo-Finnish SSR was still participating at the tournament.

Competition

Main tournament

Qualification round

Latvia - Azerbaijan 1:5
Estonia - Lithuania 0:1

Round of 16

Armenia - Tajikistan 3:0
Belarus - Kyrgyzstan 1:0
Azerbaijan - Karelia 5:1
Georgia - Moldova 4:0
Russia - Uzbekistan 3:1
Leningrad - Turkmenistan 2:0
Ukraine - Kazakhstan 2:1
Moscow - Lithuania 2:0

Quarterfinals

Russia - Leningrad 0:2
Georgia - Armenia 4:2
Ukraine - Azerbaijan 4:1
Moscow - Belarus 5:1

Semifinals

Georgia - Ukraine 3:1
Moscow - Leningrad 3:2

For 3rd place

15 August 1956

Ukraina	2 – 1	Leningrad
Boboshko 52' Voynov 54'	[ Report]	Denisov 62'

Tsentralnyi stadion Dinamo, Moscow

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Nikolay Khlopotin (Moscow)

Final

16 August 1956

Moskva	2 – 1	Grouzia
Salnikov 34' Ilyin 69'	[ Report]	Khasaya 38'

Tsentralnyi stadion imeni Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 103,000

Referee: Pyotr Belov (Leningrad)


Moscow:
GK	16	Boris Razinsky
DF	2	Nikolai Tishchenko
DF	3	Anatoli Bashashkin
DF	4	Mikhail Ogonkov
MF	5	Aleksei Paramonov
MF	6	Anatoli Maslyonkin
FW	7	Boris Tatushin	25'
FW	8	Valentin Ivanov
FW	9	Eduard Streltsov
FW	10	Sergei Salnikov (c)	34'
FW	15	Ivan Mozer
Substitutes:
FW	11	Anatoli Ilyin	25'	69'
Manager:
Gavriil Kachalin


Georgian SSR:
GK	1	Mikhail Pirayev
MF	5	Aleksandr Kotrikadze
DF	3	Niyazbey Dzyapshipa
DF	4	Givi Khocholava
MF	14	Shota Iamanidze
MF	6	Avtandil Gogoberidze (c)
FW	7	Boris Khasaya	38'
FW	8	Konstantin Gagnidze
FW	10	Zaur Kaloev
FW	9	Andrei Zazroyev
FW	11	Avtandil Ch'k'uaseli
Substitutes:
Manager:
Gaioz Jejelava^[1]

MATCH OFFICIALS

Assistant referees:

MATCH RULES

90 minutes.
30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.

Consolation tournament for quarterfinalists

Semifinals

Azerbaijan - Armenia 0:3
Russia - Belarus 4:2

For 7th place

Azerbaijan - Belarus 0:2

For 5th place

Armenia - Russia 2:1

Consolation tournament

Quarterfinals

Latvia - Kazakhstan 2:1
Moldova - Tajikistan 6:0
Uzbekistan - Turkmenistan 3:0
Estonia - Kyrgyzstan 2:1
Karelia - bye
Lithuania - bye

Semifinals

Karelia - Latvia 0:5
Moldova - Uzbekistan 4:3
Estonia - Lithuania 0:2

For 10th place

Moldova - Lithuania 4:1

For 9th place

Latvia - Moldova 2:1

For 12th place

Uzbekistan - Karelia 2:1
Uzbekistan - Estonia 2:0

Tournament for losing teams

Semifinals

Kazakhstan - Tajikistan 3:0
Turkmenistan - Kyrgyzstan 0:1

For 15th place

Kazakhstan - Kyrgyzstan 2:1

For 17th place

Tajikistan - Turkmenistan 2:3

Squads composition

Moscow

Head coach: Gavriil Kachalin, assistant: Nikolay Gulyayev (Spartak Moscow)

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Lev Yashin (ms)	(1929-10-22)22 October 1929 (aged 26)	2	0	Dynamo Moscow
2	2DF	Nikolai Tishchenko (ms)	(1926-12-10)10 December 1926 (aged 29)	4	0	Spartak Moscow
3	2DF	Anatoli Bashashkin (mms)	(1924-02-23)23 February 1924 (aged 32)	3	0	CDSA Moscow
4	2DF	Mikhail Ogonkov (ms)	(1932-06-24)24 June 1932 (aged 24)	3	0	Spartak Moscow
5	3MF	Aleksei Paramonov (mms)	(1925-02-21)21 February 1925 (aged 31)	4	0	Spartak Moscow
6	3MF	Anatoli Maslyonkin	(1930-06-29)29 June 1930 (aged 26)	4	1	Spartak Moscow
7	4FW	Boris Tatushin (ms)	(1933-03-31)31 March 1933 (aged 23)	2	1	Spartak Moscow
8	4FW	Valentin Ivanov	(1934-11-19)19 November 1934 (aged 21)	3	2	Torpedo Moscow
9	4FW	Eduard Streltsov	(1937-07-21)21 July 1937 (aged 19)	4	1	Torpedo Moscow
10	4FW	Sergei Salnikov (mms)	(1925-09-13)13 September 1925 (aged 30)	4	2	Spartak Moscow
11	4FW	Anatoli Ilyin (ms)	(1931-06-27)27 June 1931 (aged 25)	3	1	Spartak Moscow
12	4FW	Nikita Simonyan (mms)	(1926-10-12)12 October 1926 (aged 29)	1	2	Spartak Moscow
13	4FW	Anatoli Isayev (ms)	(1932-07-14)14 July 1932 (aged 24)	2	1	Spartak Moscow
14	2DF	Boris Kuznetsov (ms)	(1928-07-14)14 July 1928 (aged 28)	1	0	Dynamo Moscow
15	4FW	Ivan Mozer (ms)	(1933-12-21)21 December 1933 (aged 22)	4	1	Spartak Moscow
16	1GK	Boris Razinsky (ms)	(1933-07-12)12 July 1933 (aged 23)	2	0	CDSA Moscow
17	3MF	Igor Netto (mms)	(1930-01-09)9 January 1930 (aged 26)	0	0	Spartak Moscow

Georgian SSR

Head coach: Gaioz Jejelava (Dinamo Tbilisi), assistant: Archil Kiknadze (Dinamo Tbilisi)

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Mikhail Pirayev (ms)	(1921-11-06)6 November 1921 (aged 34)	2	0	Dinamo Tbilisi
2	2DF	Vladimir Eloshvili (ms)	(1927-09-20)20 September 1927 (aged 28)			Dinamo Tbilisi
3	2DF	Niyazbey Dzyapshipa (mms)	(1927-11-14)14 November 1927 (aged 28)	4	0	Dinamo Tbilisi
4	2DF	Givi Khocholava	1932 (aged ~24)			Dinamo Tbilisi
5	3MF	Aleksandr Kotrikadze (mms)	(1930-12-03)3 December 1930 (aged 25)			Dinamo Tbilisi
6	3MF	Avtandil Gogoberidze (mms)	(1922-08-03)3 August 1922 (aged 33)	4	1	Dinamo Tbilisi
7	4FW	Boris Khasaya	1932 (aged ~24)		1	Dinamo Tbilisi
8	4FW	Konstantin Gagnidze (mms)	1926 (aged ~30)	4	2	Dinamo Tbilisi
9	4FW	Andrei Zazroyev (mms)	(1923-09-02)2 September 1923 (aged 32)	4	1	Dinamo Tbilisi
10	4FW	Zaur Kaloev (ms)	(1931-03-24)24 March 1931 (aged 25)		4	Dinamo Tbilisi
11	4FW	Avtandil Ch'k'uaseli (ms)	(1931-12-31)31 December 1931 (aged 24)	4	3	Dinamo Tbilisi
12	1GK	Vladimir Margania (mms)	(1928-02-08)8 February 1928 (aged 28)	2	0	Dinamo Tbilisi
13	2DF	Robert Chanchaleishvili	1936 (aged ~20)			Lokomotivi Tbilisi
14	3MF	Shota Iamanidze	(1937-03-15)15 March 1937 (aged 19)	3	0	Dinamo Tbilisi
15	4FW	Mikheil Meskhi	(1937-01-12)12 January 1937 (aged 19)			Dinamo Tbilisi
16	4FW	Alexei Kvlividze	1935 (aged ~21)			Dinamo Tbilisi
17	3MF	Avtandil Kheladze	1936 (aged ~20)			Dinamo Tbilisi

Ukrainian SSR

Head coach: Oleg Oshenkov (Dynamo Kyiv), assistant: Anton Idzkovsky (FShM Kyiv)

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Oleh Makarov (ms)	(1929-07-26)26 July 1929 (aged 27)	2	0	Dynamo Kyiv
2	2DF	Vladimir Yerokhin	(1930-04-10)10 April 1930 (aged 26)			Dynamo Kyiv
3	2DF	Vitaliy Holubyev (ms)	(1926-03-19)19 March 1926 (aged 30)			Dynamo Kyiv
4	2DF	Tiberiy Popovich (ms)	(1930-09-20)20 September 1930 (aged 25)	3	0	Dynamo Kyiv
5	3MF	Yuriy Voynov (ms)	(1931-11-29)29 November 1931 (aged 24)	4	4	Dynamo Kyiv
6	3MF	Ernest Yust (ms)	(1927-06-17)17 June 1927 (aged 29)	3	0	Dynamo Kyiv
7	4FW	Ivan Boboshko	(1930-07-09)9 July 1930 (aged 26)		1	Shakhtar Stalino
8	4FW	Viktor Terentiev (ms)	(1924-12-16)16 December 1924 (aged 31)		2	Dynamo Kyiv
9	4FW	Sergei Korshunov (ms)	(1928-10-08)8 October 1928 (aged 27)	4	1	Dynamo Kyiv
10	4FW	Mykhaylo Koman (ms)	(1928-04-01)1 April 1928 (aged 28)			Dynamo Kyiv
11	4FW	Viktor Fomin (ms)	(1929-01-13)13 January 1929 (aged 27)	4	1	Dynamo Kyiv
12	1GK	Yevhen Lemeshko	(1930-12-11)11 December 1930 (aged 25)	2	0	Dynamo Kyiv
13	4FW	Viktor Kanevskyi	(1936-10-03)3 October 1936 (aged 19)	4	0	Dynamo Kyiv
14	2DF	Vitaliy Sobolev	(1930-01-25)25 January 1930 (aged 26)			Dynamo Kyiv
15	3MF	Myroslav Dumanskyi	(1929-06-17)17 June 1929 (aged 27)			Shakhtar Stalino
16	4FW	Valentyn Sapronov	(1932-01-23)23 January 1932 (aged 24)			Shakhtar Stalino
17	4FW	Georgiy Grammatikopulo (ms)	(1930-03-07)7 March 1930 (aged 26)			Dynamo Kyiv

Leningrad

Head coach: Arkadi Alov (Zenit Leningrad)

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Yury Trofimov	(1932-03-29)29 March 1932 (aged 24)	Trudovyie Rezervy Leningrad
2	2DF	Mark Gek	(1934-03-21)21 March 1934 (aged 22)	Zenit Leningrad
3	2DF	Nikolay Samarin (ms)	(1924-12-04)4 December 1924 (aged 31)	Zenit Leningrad
4	2DF	Pavlo Khudoyash	(1926-03-07)7 March 1926 (aged 30)	Zenit Leningrad
5	3MF	Viktor Belkov	(1930-04-14)14 April 1930 (aged 26)	Zenit Leningrad
6	3MF	Mikhail Rodin (ms)	(1927-04-27)27 April 1927 (aged 29)	Zenit Leningrad
7	4FW	Aleksei Kolobov (ms)	1929 (aged ~27)	Trudovyie Rezervy Leningrad
8	4FW	Aleksandr Tenyagin (ms)	(1927-08-22)22 August 1927 (aged 28)	Trudovyie Rezervy Leningrad
9	4FW	Oleksandr Hulevskyi (ms)	(1928-03-18)18 March 1928 (aged 28)	Zenit Leningrad
10	4FW	Gennadi Bondarenko (ms)	(1929-02-04)4 February 1929 (aged 27)	Zenit Leningrad
11	4FW	Aleksandr Ivanov (ms)	(1928-03-06)6 March 1928 (aged 28)	Zenit Leningrad
12	2DF	Lev Shishkov	1933 (aged ~23)	Trudovyie Rezervy Leningrad
13	3MF	Lazar Kravets (ms)	(1925-03-08)8 March 1925 (aged 31)	Zenit Leningrad
14	3MF	Stanislav Zavidonov	(1934-10-14)14 October 1934 (aged 21)	Trudovyie Rezervy Leningrad
15	4FW	Valentin Tsaritsyn	(1931-02-21)21 February 1931 (aged 25)	Zenit Leningrad
16	4FW	Aleksandr Denisov	(1931-12-25)25 December 1931 (aged 24)	Zenit Leningrad
17	1GK	Leonid Ivanov (mms)	(1921-07-25)25 July 1921 (aged 35)	Zenit Leningrad

Armenian SSR

Head coach: Abram Dangulov (Spartak Yerevan)

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Rafael Matevosyan	(1929-12-18)18 December 1929 (aged 26)	Spartak Yerevan
2	2DF	Grigory Ambartsumyan	(1933-08-28)28 August 1933 (aged 22)	Spartak Yerevan
3	2DF	Kadjair Poladyan	1925 (aged ~31)	Spartak Yerevan
4	2DF	Manuk Semerdjian	1928 (aged ~28)	Spartak Yerevan
5	3MF	Vladimir Paronyan		Spartak Yerevan
6	3MF	Eduard Vardanyan	(1934-01-19)19 January 1934 (aged 22)	Spartak Yerevan
7	4FW	Eduard Kapanakov	1931 (aged ~25)	Spartak Yerevan
8	4FW	Arutyun Kegeyan (ms)	(1930-04-09)9 April 1930 (aged 26)	Spartak Yerevan
9	4FW	Valter Antonyan	(1936-01-24)24 January 1936 (aged 20)	Spartak Yerevan
10	4FW	Oganes Abramyan	(1932-12-06)6 December 1932 (aged 23)	Spartak Yerevan
11	4FW	Anatoly Goloshchapov (ms)	(1927-04-05)5 April 1927 (aged 29)	Spartak Yerevan
12	4FW	Arutyun Karadjian	1928 (aged ~28)	Spartak Yerevan
13	2DF	Papik Papoyan	(1929-10-25)25 October 1929 (aged 26)	Spartak Yerevan
14	4FW	Musheg Pogosyan	1934 (aged ~22)	Spartak Yerevan
15	4FW	Vistal Torosyan	1937 (aged ~19)	Spartak Yerevan
16	4FW	T. Aslamazov		Spartak Yerevan
17	1GK	Semen Israelyan	(1928-01-18)18 January 1928 (aged 28)	Spartak Yerevan

RSFSR

Head coach: Aleksandr Starostin (President of the RSFSR Football Federation^[a])

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Vladimir Migalev	(1936-04-30)30 April 1936 (aged 20)	Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev
2	2DF	Yuriy Suetov	1933 (aged ~23)	ODO Sverdlovsk
3	2DF	Nikolay Linyayev	(1933-07-17)17 July 1933 (aged 23)	ODO Sverdlovsk
4	2DF	Dmytro Bahrych	(1936-03-26)26 March 1936 (aged 20)	ODO Sverdlovsk
5	3MF	Viktor Karpov (mms)	(1927-03-04)4 March 1927 (aged 29)	Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev
6	3MF	Eduard Dubinski	(1935-04-06)6 April 1935 (aged 21)	ODO Sverdlovsk
7	4FW	Leonid Huzyk	(1933-02-21)21 February 1933 (aged 23)	Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev
8	4FW	Boris Repin	(1937-01-01)1 January 1937 (aged 19)	Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev
9	4FW	Vasily Buzunov (ms)	(1928-02-04)4 February 1928 (aged 28)	ODO Sverdlovsk
10	4FW	German Neverov	1935 (aged ~21)	ODO Sverdlovsk
11	4FW	Igor Mikhin	(1933-11-18)18 November 1933 (aged 22)	ODO Sverdlovsk
12	1GK	Yuriy Smirnov	(1923-09-09)9 September 1923 (aged 32)	ODO Sverdlovsk
13	3MF	Nikolay Pozdnyakov	(1927-11-23)23 November 1927 (aged 28)	Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev
14	4FW	Vadim Redkin	(1933-04-16)16 April 1933 (aged 23)	Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev
15	3MF	Boris Ivanov	(1925-12-19)19 December 1925 (aged 30)	ODO Sverdlovsk
16	4FW	Yuriy Korotkov (ms)	(1928-02-17)17 February 1928 (aged 28)	Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev
17	2DF	Anatoliy Mazepov	(1929-11-16)16 November 1929 (aged 26)	Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev

Belarusian SSR

Head coach: Mikhail Bozenenkov (Spartak Minsk)

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Yuriy Mokhov	(1932-07-07)7 July 1932 (aged 24)	Spartak Minsk
2	2DF	Mikhail Radunski	(1932-06-17)17 June 1932 (aged 24)	Spartak Minsk
3	2DF	Aleksandr Ivanov	(1932-11-25)25 November 1932 (aged 23)	Spartak Minsk
4	2DF	Gennady Abramovich (ms)	(1928-05-25)25 May 1928 (aged 28)	Spartak Minsk
5	3MF	Vyacheslav Artyomov (ms)	(1931-02-07)7 February 1931 (aged 25)	Spartak Minsk
6	3MF	Leonid Yerokhovets	(1935-05-01)1 May 1935 (aged 21)	Spartak Minsk
7	4FW	Dmitry Korneev	(1934-07-04)4 July 1934 (aged 22)	Spartak Minsk
8	4FW	Vladimir Goncharov	(1937-06-30)30 June 1937 (aged 19)	Spartak Minsk
9	4FW	Yury Bachurin (ms)	(1928-01-13)13 January 1928 (aged 28)	Spartak Minsk
10	4FW	Yakov Ruderman	(1937-05-07)7 May 1937 (aged 19)	Spartak Minsk
11	4FW	Leonid Nikulenko	(1937-05-09)9 May 1937 (aged 19)	Spartak Minsk
12	2DF	Pavel Mimrik (ms)	(1921-06-28)28 June 1921 (aged 35)	Spartak Minsk
13	4FW	Gennady Khasin	(1935-08-25)25 August 1935 (aged 20)	Spartak Minsk
14	4FW	Anatoliy Kovalyov	(1936-12-08)8 December 1936 (aged 19)	Spartak Minsk
15	2DF	Leonid Dyomin	1936 (aged ~20)	Spartak Minsk
16	1GK	Vladimir Sobol	(1935-07-14)14 July 1935 (aged 21)	Spartak Minsk
17	4FW	Anatoliy Yegorov (ms)	(1927-12-16)16 December 1927 (aged 28)	Spartak Minsk

Azerbaijan SSR

Head coach: Victor Panyukov (FShM Tbilisi)

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Yuriy Lushnikov		Neftyanik Baku
2	2DF	Nazim Huseynov	1931 (aged ~25)	Neftyanik Baku
3	2DF	Oleg Mkrtychev	1930 (aged ~26)	Neftyanik Baku
4	2DF	Turan Mamedov	1936 (aged ~20)	Neftyanik Baku
5	3MF	Marcel Javakhyan	1935 (aged ~21)	Neftyanik Baku
6	3MF	Shamil Amirov	1933 (aged ~23)	Neftyanik Baku
7	4FW	Barisbey Batashov	1933 (aged ~23)	Neftyanik Baku
8	4FW	Anatoliy Terentyev	1931 (aged ~25)	Neftyanik Baku
9	4FW	Əli Əbilzadə	1930 (aged ~26)	Neftyanik Baku
10	4FW	Vladimir Mikuchadze	1932 (aged ~24)	Neftyanik Baku
11	4FW	Vladimir Galkin	1930 (aged ~26)	Neftyanik Baku
12	2DF	Vladimir Denisov	1938 (aged ~18)	Neftyanik Baku
13		N. Sultanov		Neftyanik Baku
14	4FW	Viktor Smirnov	1937 (aged ~19)	Neftyanik Baku
15	2DF	Aleksei Zinin	1933 (aged ~23)	Neftyanik Baku
16	4FW	Ahmad Alaskarov	(1935-10-05)5 October 1935 (aged 20)	Neftyanik Baku
17	1GK	Shaban Aliyev	1931 (aged ~25)	Neftyanik Baku

Notes

^ former convict of the Soviet GULAG system released in 1954 through the so-called "rehabilitation"

References

^ ГРУЗИЯ - РОССИЯ ПОДТЕКСТ - ФУТБОЛЬНЫЙ ВСЕ МАТЧИ НА УРОВНЕ СБОРНЫХ. http://www.sport-express.ru. 11 October 2002

External links

First Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR (I СПАРТАКИАДА НАРОДОВ СССР 1956 года ). Vladimir Glubokov website.
1956 season at FootballFacts.ru

[2] rmer convict of the Soviet GULAG system released in 1954 through the so-called "rehabilitation"

[1] ГРУЗИЯ - РОССИЯ ПОДТЕКСТ - ФУТБОЛЬНЫЙ ВСЕ МАТЧИ НА УРОВНЕ СБОРНЫХ. http://www.sport-express.ru. 11 October 2002

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