# 1970 Soviet Class A Second Group

The 1970 Soviet Class A Second Group was the 10th season at the third tier of football competitions in the Soviet Union.
The competitions consisted of three groups, winners of which gained direct promotion to the 1971 Soviet First League. Those were Metallurg Zaporozhye, Shinnik Yaroslavl, and Kuzbass Kemerevo.
In addition to that there was conducted a side tournament for the Russian SFSR clubs for the republican title. Only two best teams of the Russian SFSR from Groups 2 and 3 qualified for that competition. At same time Metallurg Zaporozhye was honored as the Champion of the Ukrainian SSR by the Football Federation of the Ukrainian SSR.

## Qualifying groups
### Group I [Ukraine and Belarus]

| Pos | Team v t e | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Metalurh Zaporizhia (C, P) | 42 | 26 | 10 | 6 | 73 | 33 | +40 | 62 | Promoted |
| 2 | Tavriya Simferopol | 42 | 21 | 15 | 6 | 70 | 36 | +34 | 57 | |
| 3 | Avtomobilist Zhytomyr | 42 | 20 | 15 | 7 | 61 | 27 | +34 | 55 | |
| 4 | Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk | 42 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 58 | 53 | +5 | 50 | |
| 5 | Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv | 42 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 47 | 36 | +11 | 48 | |
| 6 | Azovets Zhdanov | 42 | 15 | 18 | 9 | 44 | 34 | +10 | 48 | |
| 7 | Zirka Kirovohrad | 42 | 19 | 9 | 14 | 48 | 41 | +7 | 47 | |
| 8 | Bukovyna Chernivtsi | 42 | 17 | 12 | 13 | 45 | 39 | +6 | 46 | |
| 9 | Shakhtar Kadiivka | 42 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 49 | 37 | +12 | 45 | |
| 10 | Lokomotyv Kherson | 42 | 16 | 12 | 14 | 60 | 50 | +10 | 44 | |
| 11 | Desna Chernihiv | 42 | 17 | 10 | 15 | 43 | 45 | −2 | 44 | Dissolved |
| 12 | Shakhtar Horlivka | 42 | 14 | 13 | 15 | 42 | 47 | −5 | 41 | |
| 13 | Budivelnyk Poltava | 42 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 33 | 34 | −1 | 39 | |
| 14 | SKA Lviv | 42 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 30 | 41 | −11 | 39 | |
| 15 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 42 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 52 | 48 | +4 | 38 | |
| 16 | Spartak Brest | 42 | 12 | 13 | 17 | 32 | 48 | −16 | 37 | |
| 17 | Avanhard Ternopil | 42 | 12 | 12 | 18 | 38 | 47 | −9 | 36 | |
| 18 | Neman Grodno | 42 | 11 | 13 | 18 | 27 | 48 | −21 | 35 | |
| 19 | Baltika Kaliningrad | 42 | 10 | 11 | 21 | 24 | 51 | −27 | 31 | |
| 20 | SKA Odessa | 42 | 12 | 6 | 24 | 34 | 56 | −22 | 30 | |
| 21 | Spartak Sumy | 42 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 31 | 57 | −26 | 28 | |
| 22 | Gomselmash Gomel | 42 | 7 | 10 | 25 | 22 | 55 | −33 | 24 | |

### Group II [Centre and Caucasus]

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion |
| 1 | RUS | Shinnik Yaroslavl | 42 | 24 | 14 | 4 | 66 | 31 | +35 | 62 | Promoted |
| 2 | RUS | Avtomobilist Nalchik | 42 | 22 | 15 | 5 | 58 | 17 | +41 | 59 | |
| 3 | RUS | Volga Kalinin | 42 | 22 | 11 | 9 | 57 | 31 | +26 | 55 | |
| 4 | RUS | Metallurg Tula | 42 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 80 | 38 | +42 | 53 | |
| 5 | RUS | Mashuk Pyatigorsk | 42 | 17 | 16 | 9 | 52 | 36 | +16 | 50 | |
| 6 | RUS | Dinamo Stavropol | 42 | 15 | 16 | 11 | 37 | 38 | −1 | 46 | |
| 7 | RUS | Metallurg Lipetsk | 42 | 17 | 10 | 15 | 51 | 48 | +3 | 44 | |
| 8 | RUS | Lokomotiv Kaluga | 42 | 14 | 16 | 12 | 47 | 56 | −9 | 44 | |
| 9 | RUS | Trud Voronezh | 42 | 16 | 11 | 15 | 56 | 43 | +13 | 43 | |
| 10 | GEO | Dinamo Batumi | 42 | 14 | 15 | 13 | 35 | 40 | −5 | 43 | |
| 11 | RUS | Druzhba Maykop | 42 | 15 | 12 | 15 | 36 | 34 | +2 | 42 | |
| 12 | RUS | Salyut Belgorod | 42 | 13 | 16 | 13 | 46 | 45 | +1 | 42 | |
| 13 | ARM | Shirak Leninakan | 42 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 44 | 43 | +1 | 41 | |
| 14 | RUS | Torpedo Taganrog | 42 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 36 | 43 | −7 | 41 | |
| 15 | RUS | Volga Gorkiy | 42 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 47 | 46 | +1 | 39 | |
| 16 | RUS | Saturn Rybinsk | 42 | 11 | 17 | 14 | 44 | 56 | −12 | 39 | |
| 17 | RUS | Dinamo Makhachkala | 42 | 13 | 11 | 18 | 45 | 55 | −10 | 37 | |
| 18 | GEO | Dila Gori | 42 | 13 | 11 | 18 | 43 | 56 | −13 | 37 | |
| 19 | RUS | Stal Volgograd | 42 | 8 | 18 | 16 | 33 | 40 | −7 | 34 | |
| 20 | AZE | Dinamo Kirovabad | 42 | 12 | 8 | 22 | 37 | 46 | −9 | 32 | |
| 21 | RUS | Dinamo Bryansk | 42 | 7 | 11 | 24 | 34 | 79 | −45 | 25 | |
| 22 | AZE | Polad Sumgait | 42 | 4 | 8 | 30 | 19 | 82 | −63 | 16 | |
* 1 2 3 +
* ↑ Spartak Belgorod changed name to Salyut.
* ↑ Traktor Volgograd changed name to Stal.

### Group III [Siberia and Central Asia]

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion |
| 1 | RUS | Kuzbass Kemerovo | 42 | 24 | 9 | 9 | 61 | 37 | +24 | 57 | Promoted |
| 2 | RUS | Spartak Yoshkar-Ola | 42 | 24 | 7 | 11 | 46 | 30 | +16 | 55 | |
| 3 | RUS | Irtysh Omsk | 42 | 20 | 14 | 8 | 63 | 28 | +35 | 54 | |
| 4 | RUS | TomLes Tomsk | 42 | 17 | 16 | 9 | 36 | 28 | +8 | 50 | |
| 5 | KAZ | Vostok Ust-Kamenogorsk | 42 | 19 | 11 | 12 | 51 | 39 | +12 | 49 | |
| 6 | RUS | SKA Chita | 42 | 19 | 10 | 13 | 56 | 35 | +21 | 48 | |
| 7 | UZB | Politotdel Tashkent Region | 42 | 19 | 10 | 13 | 48 | 44 | +4 | 48 | |
| 8 | RUS | Zvezda Perm | 42 | 17 | 13 | 12 | 49 | 37 | +12 | 47 | |
| 9 | RUS | Dinamo Barnaul | 42 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 60 | 44 | +16 | 45 | |
| 10 | RUS | Luch Vladivostok | 42 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 35 | 33 | +2 | 45 | |
| 11 | UZB | Neftyanik Fergana | 42 | 19 | 7 | 16 | 56 | 55 | +1 | 45 | |
| 12 | RUS | Selenga Ulan-Ude | 42 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 41 | 39 | +2 | 44 | |
| 13 | KAZ | Metallurg Chimkent | 42 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 44 | 46 | −2 | 41 | |
| 14 | RUS | Torpedo Togliatti | 42 | 14 | 12 | 16 | 39 | 38 | +1 | 40 | |
| 15 | RUS | Sokol Saratov | 42 | 16 | 5 | 21 | 47 | 51 | −4 | 37 | |
| 16 | RUS | Volga Ulyanovsk | 42 | 12 | 12 | 18 | 35 | 50 | −15 | 36 | |
| 17 | RUS | Stroitel Ufa | 42 | 14 | 7 | 21 | 36 | 53 | −17 | 35 | |
| 18 | RUS | Avtomobilist Krasnoyarsk | 42 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 29 | 37 | −8 | 34 | |
| 19 | RUS | Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk | 42 | 8 | 16 | 18 | 40 | 45 | −5 | 32 | |
| 20 | RUS | Aeroflot Irkutsk | 42 | 11 | 9 | 22 | 28 | 64 | −36 | 31 | |
| 21 | RUS | Zenit Izhevsk | 42 | 9 | 10 | 23 | 35 | 58 | −23 | 28 | |
| 22 | UZB | Traktor Tashkent | 42 | 7 | 9 | 26 | 27 | 71 | −44 | 23 | |
* ↑ Khimik Togliatti changed name to Torpedo.
* 1 2 +
* ↑ Rassvet Krasnoyarsk changed name to Avtomobilist.
* ↑ TashAvtoMash Tashkent changed name to Traktor.