• Following are the results of the 1940 Soviet Top League football championship. Source: rsssf.com Source: [citation needed] Legend: Blue = home team win;...
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  • The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (Russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига, romanized: Vyschaya Liga), served as the...
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  • The 1940 Soviet football championship in Gruppa B (Russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу в группе «Б») was fifth season of the (second tier) professional...
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    Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. Despite superior military strength, especially in tanks and aircraft, the Soviet Union suffered severe losses and...
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    June and 3 July 1940, the Soviet Union occupied Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, following an ultimatum made to Romania on 26 June 1940 that threatened...
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  • The 1941 Soviet Top League was cancelled due to World War II. The last matches were played on June 24. Source: rsssf.com CDKA were renamed to Red Army...
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  • 1939 Soviet Top League was the fifth season of the Soviet Top League known at that time as Group A. It started on May 12 with six games of the first round...
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  • the continuer of the Soviet top league, founded in 1933.[citation needed] 1933–1936 – Moscow. 1938, 1939 – Spartak (Leningrad) 1940 – Spartak Moscow 1945–1948...
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  • The Soviet First League in football (Russian: Первая лига СССР по футболу) was the second highest division of Soviet football, below the Soviet Top League...
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  • domestic league, the Soviet Top League. The league is known locally as the Higher League with relegation to the First League.[citation needed] The league is...
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  • Zenit's, because of a small number of Dynamo fans, since the fall of the Soviet Union. During 2017/2018 season, there was a rivalry between Zenit and FC...
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  • the top division of football in Kazakhstan. The League is controlled by the Football Federation of Kazakhstan and was set up in 1992. The League is fed...
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    (Ukrainian: Вища ліга, Top League) it was formed in 1991 during the 1992 Ukrainian football championship upon discontinuation of the 1991 Soviet football championship...
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  • FC Dinamo Minsk (category Soviet Top League clubs)
    some of their history in the lower leagues of the Soviet Union, but in 1940, they were promoted to the Soviet Top League, becoming the first and only Belarusian...
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  • the Russian Revolution, that the Soviet Union established a national championship of clubs. Before then local leagues in Moscow and Saint Petersburg/Leningrad...
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  • championship. In Russia, the six Russian teams who had played in the Soviet Top League in 1991 (CSKA Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Dynamo Moscow...
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    Premier League — Dynamo — Spartak 0:4 1946 — Soviet Top League — Dynamo — Spartak 5:0 1940Soviet Top League — Spartak — Dynamo 1:5 1945 — Soviet Top League...
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  • FC Chornomorets Odesa (category Soviet Top League clubs)
    Shipping Company (1959–1991). The club was among top 20 Soviet clubs that competed in Soviet Top League. At the beginning of the 20th century, in Odesa...
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  • Soviet Union. The league existed from 1923 to 1991, as the top professional basketball league of the Soviet Union, and from 1991 to 1992, as the top professional...
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  • FC Locomotive Tbilisi (category Soviet Top League clubs)
    another promotion during the following season and participated in 1940 Soviet Top League. But they were eventually disqualified from the tournament. These...
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    States. The Baltic states assert that their incorporation into the Soviet Union in 1940 (as the Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian SSRs) under the provisions...
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    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922...
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  • Belarusian Premier League was organized in 1992. The first participants were: Dinamo Minsk, the only Belarusian side in the former Soviet Top League, five teams...
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  • Moldovan Super Liga (category Top level football leagues in Europe)
    The Super Liga is an association football league that is the top division of Moldovan football league system. The competition was established in 1992...
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    was not a novelty to the Soviet regime, as in the period between 1927 and 1940, the number of Orthodox Churches in the Soviet Union fell from 29,584 to...
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  •  'National League') is the top division of professional football in Georgia. Since 1990, it has been organized by the Professional Football League of Georgia...
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    independent Estonian league took place between 1921 and 1940. However, after the Second World War it became part of the Soviet Union, and became a regional...
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    Moscow Armistice. The Soviet Union and Finland had previously fought the Winter War from 1939 to 1940, which ended with the Soviet failure to conquer Finland...
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  • The Soviet Union football league system was a series of interconnected leagues for men's association football clubs in the Soviet Union which included...
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  • FC Elektrosila Leningrad (category Soviet Top League clubs)
    (1938-39) Krasnaya Zaria Leningrad (1940-45) Elektrosila Leningrad (1946) During its time in the Soviet Top League Elektrosila played its games at the...
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