# 1962 Soviet Class B

1962 Soviet Class B was the 13th season of the Soviet Class B football competitions since their establishment in 1950. It was also the 22nd season of what eventually became known as the Soviet First League.

## Russian Federation
### I Zone

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Shinnik Yaroslavl | 32 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 76 | 20 | +56 | 50 |
| 2 | Spartak Leningrad | 32 | 21 | 5 | 6 | 56 | 20 | +36 | 47 |
| 3 | Textilshchik Ivanovo | 32 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 54 | 29 | +25 | 42 |
| 4 | Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo | 32 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 51 | 33 | +18 | 41 |
| 5 | Vympel Kaliningrad (M.R.) | 32 | 17 | 7 | 8 | 50 | 32 | +18 | 41 |
| 6 | Raketa Sormovo | 32 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 42 | 23 | +19 | 38 |
| 7 | Textilshchik Kostroma | 32 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 37 | 37 | 0 | 32 |
| 8 | Khimik Novomoskovsk | 32 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 40 | 31 | +9 | 31 |
| 9 | SKA Leningrad | 32 | 11 | 8 | 13 | 38 | 46 | −8 | 30 |
| 10 | Shakhtyor Tula | 32 | 11 | 8 | 13 | 32 | 45 | −13 | 30 |
| 11 | Volga Kalinin | 32 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 25 | 38 | −13 | 30 |
| 12 | Metallurg Cherepovets | 32 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 30 | 46 | −16 | 27 |
| 13 | Dinamo Bryansk | 32 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 32 | 43 | −11 | 24 |
| 14 | Volna Dzerzhinsk | 32 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 18 | 38 | −20 | 24 |
| 15 | Tralflotovets Murmansk | 32 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 25 | 52 | −27 | 22 |
| 16 | Sputnik Kaluga | 32 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 26 | 45 | −19 | 20 |
| 17 | Onezhets Petrozavodsk | 32 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 21 | 75 | −54 | 15 |
* ↑ Vympel Kaliningrad was called Trud.
* ↑ Raketa Gorkiy relocated to Sormovo.
* ↑ Khimik Novomoskovsk was called Shakhtyor Stalinogorsk (with change of the city's name).
* 1 2 +
* ↑ Shakhtyor Tula was called Trud.

### II Zone

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Trud Voronezh | 30 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 58 | 23 | +35 | 46 |
| 2 | Trudoviye Rezervy Kursk | 30 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 45 | 19 | +26 | 43 |
| 3 | MVO Serpukhov | 30 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 42 | 19 | +23 | 43 |
| 4 | Trud Noginsk | 30 | 16 | 6 | 8 | 35 | 29 | +6 | 38 |
| 5 | Sokol Saratov | 30 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 58 | 41 | +17 | 34 |
| 6 | Baltika Kaliningrad | 30 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 31 | 25 | +6 | 33 |
| 7 | Chaika Gorkiy | 30 | 8 | 16 | 6 | 34 | 30 | +4 | 32 |
| 8 | Spartak Ryazan | 30 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 39 | 38 | +1 | 30 |
| 9 | Zarya Penza | 30 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 31 | 35 | −4 | 28 |
| 10 | Torpedo Lipetsk | 30 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 40 | 37 | +3 | 27 |
| 11 | Traktor Vladimir | 30 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 26 | 34 | −8 | 25 |
| 12 | Torpedo Pavlovo | 30 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 44 | 58 | −14 | 24 |
| 13 | Spartak Tambov | 30 | 8 | 5 | 17 | 31 | 52 | −21 | 21 |
| 14 | Spartak Smolensk | 30 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 38 | 54 | −16 | 20 |
| 15 | Lokomotiv Oryol | 30 | 6 | 7 | 17 | 25 | 54 | −29 | 19 |
| 16 | Spartak Saransk | 30 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 29 | 58 | −29 | 17 |
* ↑ Chaika Gorkiy was called Torpedo.
* ↑ Spartak Saransk was called Stroitel.

### III Zone

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Spartak Krasnodar | 28 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 59 | 25 | +34 | 41 |
| 2 | Traktor Volgograd | 28 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 43 | 15 | +28 | 39 |
| 3 | RostSelMash Rostov-na-Donu | 28 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 66 | 31 | +35 | 38 |
| 4 | Dinamo Stavropol | 28 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 40 | 26 | +14 | 36 |
| 5 | Shakhtyor Shakhty | 28 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 39 | 27 | +12 | 33 |
| 6 | Torpedo Taganrog | 28 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 38 | 25 | +13 | 31 |
| 7 | Terek Grozny | 28 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 27 | 35 | −8 | 30 |
| 8 | Spartak Orjonikidze | 28 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 38 | 36 | +2 | 26 |
| 9 | Energiya Volzhskiy | 28 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 31 | 39 | −8 | 25 |
| 10 | Dinamo Makhachkala | 28 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 21 | 39 | −18 | 24 |
| 11 | Spartak Nalchik | 28 | 8 | 7 | 13 | 30 | 39 | −9 | 23 |
| 12 | Torpedo Armavir | 28 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 30 | 42 | −12 | 23 |
| 13 | Cement Novorossiysk | 28 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 27 | 41 | −14 | 23 |
| 14 | Trudoviye Rezervy Kislovodsk | 28 | 8 | 4 | 16 | 21 | 47 | −26 | 20 |
| 15 | Volgar Astrakhan | 28 | 1 | 6 | 21 | 16 | 59 | −43 | 8 |
* ↑ The city of Stalingrad was renamed to Volgograd.
* ↑ Dinamo Stavropol was called Spartak.

### IV Zone

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | UralMash Sverdlovsk | 30 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 66 | 28 | +38 | 45 |
| 2 | Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk | 30 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 61 | 27 | +34 | 40 |
| 3 | Iskra Kazan | 30 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 47 | 23 | +24 | 38 |
| 4 | Stroitel Ufa | 30 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 51 | 35 | +16 | 36 |
| 5 | Dinamo Kirov | 30 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 50 | 26 | +24 | 35 |
| 6 | Zvezda Perm | 30 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 49 | 33 | +16 | 35 |
| 7 | Zenit Izhevsk | 30 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 36 | 27 | +9 | 35 |
| 8 | Neftyanik Syzran | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 34 | 28 | +6 | 32 |
| 9 | Uralets Nizhniy Tagil | 30 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 43 | 36 | +7 | 30 |
| 10 | Stroitel Kurgan | 30 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 30 | 39 | −9 | 28 |
| 11 | Metallurg Magnitogorsk | 30 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 41 | 43 | −2 | 27 |
| 12 | Lokomotiv Orenburg | 30 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 36 | 51 | −15 | 27 |
| 13 | Volga Ulyanovsk | 30 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 28 | 43 | −15 | 24 |
| 14 | Geolog Tyumen | 30 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 22 | 50 | −28 | 21 |
| 15 | Trud Yoshkar-Ola | 30 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 20 | 54 | −34 | 19 |
| 16 | Khimik Berezniki | 30 | 2 | 4 | 24 | 19 | 90 | −71 | 8 |
* ↑ Uralets Nizhniy Tagil was called Metallurg.
* ↑ Volga Ulyanovsk was called Spartak.

### V Zone

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | SKA Novosibirsk | 28 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 53 | 23 | +30 | 40 |
| 2 | SKA Khabarovsk | 28 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 45 | 27 | +18 | 40 |
| 3 | Luch Vladivostok | 28 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 42 | 33 | +9 | 36 |
| 4 | Khimik Kemerovo | 28 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 41 | 20 | +21 | 33 |
| 5 | Temp Barnaul | 28 | 14 | 3 | 11 | 51 | 34 | +17 | 31 |
| 6 | Lokomotiv Krasnoyarsk | 28 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 48 | 34 | +14 | 31 |
| 7 | Irtysh Omsk | 28 | 13 | 4 | 11 | 39 | 28 | +11 | 30 |
| 8 | Angara Irkutsk | 28 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 39 | 34 | +5 | 29 |
| 9 | Zabaikalets Chita | 28 | 7 | 13 | 8 | 40 | 41 | −1 | 27 |
| 10 | Shakhtyor Prokopyevsk | 28 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 29 | 43 | −14 | 26 |
| 11 | Avangard Komsomolsk-na-Amure | 28 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 35 | 33 | +2 | 25 |
| 12 | Baykal Ulan-Ude | 28 | 5 | 13 | 10 | 24 | 41 | −17 | 23 |
| 13 | Tomich Tomsk | 28 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 22 | 40 | −18 | 20 |
| 14 | Amur Blagoveshchensk | 28 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 27 | 57 | −30 | 16 |
| 15 | Metallurg Novokuznetsk | 28 | 2 | 9 | 17 | 22 | 69 | −47 | 13 |
* ↑ The city of Stalinsk was renamed to Novokuznetsk.

### Final

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Spartak Krasnodar | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 7 |
| 2 | Trud Voronezh | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 6 |
| 3 | UralMash Sverdlovsk | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 4 |
| 4 | SKA Novosibirsk | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | −3 | 4 |
| 5 | Shinnik Yaroslavl | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 0 |
* ↑ 1 bonus point awarded?

## Ukraine
### For places 1-6

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Trudoviye Rezervy Lugansk | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 22 | 11 | +11 | 16 |
| 2 | Chernomorets Odessa | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 9 | +4 | 11 |
| 3 | Avangard Simferopol | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 14 | −2 | 10 |
| 4 | SKA Odessa | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 10 | +1 | 8 |
| 5 | Polesye Zhitomir | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 15 | −5 | 8 |
| 6 | Metallurg Zaporozhye | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 22 | −9 | 7 |

## Union republics
### I Zone

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | BLR | Lokomotiv Gomel | 32 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 43 | 19 | +24 | 46 |
| 2 | ARM | Shirak Leninakan | 32 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 45 | 27 | +18 | 43 |
| 3 | ARM | Nairi Yerevan | 32 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 51 | 29 | +22 | 42 |
| 4 | BLR | Spartak Brest | 32 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 39 | 25 | +14 | 39 |
| 5 | GEO | Lokomotiv Tbilisi | 32 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 52 | 32 | +20 | 38 |
| 6 | BLR | Khimik Mogilyov | 32 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 35 | 32 | +3 | 36 |
| 7 | BLR | SKA Minsk | 32 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 27 | 25 | +2 | 35 |
| 8 | GEO | Dinamo Sukhumi | 32 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 36 | 33 | +3 | 32 |
| 9 | EST | Kalev Tallinn | 32 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 35 | 31 | +4 | 31 |
| 10 | AZE | Neftyanyye Kamni Baku | 32 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 39 | 43 | −4 | 31 |
| 11 | LVA | Zvejnieks Liepaja | 32 | 6 | 18 | 8 | 29 | 31 | −2 | 30 |
| 12 | LTU | Banga Kaunas | 32 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 32 | 31 | +1 | 28 |
| 13 | LVA | REZ Riga | 32 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 34 | 46 | −12 | 24 |
| 14 | MDA | Nistrul Bendery | 32 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 30 | 42 | −12 | 24 |
| 15 | BLR | Krasnoye Znamya Vitebsk | 32 | 9 | 6 | 17 | 24 | 40 | −16 | 24 |
| 16 | MDA | Pishchevik Tiraspol | 32 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 31 | 52 | −21 | 23 |
| 17 | EST | Dinamo Tallinn | 32 | 6 | 4 | 22 | 26 | 70 | −44 | 16 |
* 1 2 3 +
* ↑ Dinamo Sukhumi was called Ritsa.
* ↑ Zvejnieks Liepaja was called SelMash.

### Number of teams by republics

| Number | Union republics | Team(s) |
| 5 | Belarusian SSR | FC Lokomotiv Gomel, FC Spartak Brest, FC Khimik Mogilyov, SKA Minsk, FC Krasnoye Znamya Vitebsk |
| 2 | Armenian SSR | FC Shirak Leninakan, FC Nairi Yerevan |
| 2 | Georgian SSR | FC Lokomotiv Tbilisi, FC Dinamo Sukhumi |
| 2 | Estonian SSR | FC Kalev Tallinn, FC Dinamo Tallinn |
| 2 | Latvian SSR | FC Zvejnieks Liepaja, FC REZ Riga |
| 2 | Moldavian SSR | FC Nistrul Bendery, FC Pishchevik Tiraspol |
| 1 | Azerbaijan SSR | FC Neftyanyye Kamni Baku |
| 1 | Lithuanian SSR | FK Banga Kaunas |

### II Zone

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | KAZ | Shakhtyor Karaganda | 28 | 19 | 3 | 6 | 53 | 21 | +32 | 41 |
| 2 | KGZ | Alga Frunze | 28 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 45 | 32 | +13 | 33 |
| 3 | AZE | Dinamo Kirovabad | 28 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 36 | 26 | +10 | 32 |
| 4 | TKM | Stroitel Ashkhabad | 28 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 41 | 37 | +4 | 30 |
| 5 | KAZ | Metallurg Chimkent | 28 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 45 | 42 | +3 | 30 |
| 6 | TJK | Energetik Dushanbe | 28 | 8 | 14 | 6 | 36 | 33 | +3 | 30 |
| 7 | GEO | Dinamo Batumi | 28 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 34 | 33 | +1 | 30 |
| 8 | UZB | Neftyanik Fergana | 28 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 33 | 40 | −7 | 29 |
| 9 | GEO | Metallurg Rustavi | 28 | 7 | 14 | 7 | 41 | 33 | +8 | 28 |
| 10 | TJK | Pamir Leninabad | 28 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 48 | 40 | +8 | 26 |
| 11 | ARM | Lori Kirovakan | 28 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 37 | 36 | +1 | 26 |
| 12 | UZB | Pahtakor Tashkent Region | 28 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 39 | 43 | −4 | 25 |
| 13 | GEO | Kolkhida Poti | 28 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 29 | 38 | −9 | 21 |
| 14 | UZB | Khimik Chirchik | 28 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 26 | 62 | −36 | 21 |
| 15 | KAZ | Metallist Jambul | 28 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 22 | 49 | −27 | 18 |
* ↑ Dinamo Kirovabad was called Textilshchik.
* ↑ Stroitel Ashkhabad was called Kopet-Dag.
* ↑ The city of Stalinabad was renamed as Dushanbe.
* ↑ Neftyanik Fergana was called Spartak.
* 1 2 3 +

### Number of teams by republics

| Number | Union republics | Team(s) |
| 3 | Kazakh SSR | FC Shakhter Karaganda, FC Metallurg Chimkent, FC Metallist Jambul |
| 3 | Georgian SSR | FC Dinamo Batumi, FC Metallurg Rustavi, FC Kolkhida Poti |
| 3 | Uzbek SSR | FC Neftyanik Fergana, FC Pakhtakor Tashkent Region, FC Khimik Chirchik |
| 2 | Tajik SSR | FC Energetik Dushanbe, FC Pamir Leninabad |
| 1 | Kyrgyz SSR | FK Alga Frunze |
| 1 | Azerbaijan SSR | FC Dinamo Kirovabad |
| 1 | Turkmen SSR | FC Stroitel Ashkhabad |
| 1 | Armenian SSR | FC Lori Kirovakan |

### Final

* Shakhtyor Karaganda 1-0 0-0 Lokomotiv Gomel