# Football at the 1956 Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR

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
### Final

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 ||||
| 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)
| 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 |