# 2011–12 Russian Second Division

The 2011–12 Russian Second Division was the third strongest division in Russian football. The Second Division is geographically divided into 5 zones. The winners of each zone are automatically promoted into the First Division. The bottom finishers of each zone lose professional status and are relegated into the Amateur Football League.

## West
### Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Petrotrest St. Petersburg (C, P) | 45 | 27 | 12 | 6 | 80 | 27 | +53 | 93 | Promotion to Football National League |
| 2 | Spartak Kostroma | 45 | 26 | 11 | 8 | 62 | 30 | +32 | 89 | |
| 3 | Tekstilshchik Ivanovo | 45 | 26 | 11 | 8 | 68 | 26 | +42 | 89 | |
| 4 | Dnepr Smolensk | 45 | 24 | 12 | 9 | 77 | 36 | +41 | 84 | |
| 5 | Lokomotiv-2 Moscow | 45 | 24 | 9 | 12 | 72 | 44 | +28 | 81 | |
| 6 | Volga Tver | 45 | 22 | 11 | 12 | 60 | 35 | +25 | 77 | |
| 7 | Pskov-747 Pskov | 45 | 21 | 10 | 14 | 61 | 53 | +8 | 73 | |
| 8 | Sheksna Cherepovets (R) | 45 | 20 | 7 | 18 | 51 | 49 | +2 | 67 | Excluded from professional football |
| 9 | Istra (R) | 45 | 16 | 16 | 13 | 54 | 47 | +7 | 64 | Excluded from professional football |
| 10 | Dynamo Vologda (R) | 45 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 62 | 63 | −1 | 60 | Excluded from professional football |
| 11 | Sever Murmansk | 45 | 15 | 7 | 23 | 62 | 77 | −15 | 52 | |
| 12 | Karelia Petrozavodsk | 45 | 13 | 10 | 22 | 58 | 83 | −25 | 49 | |
| 13 | Saturn Moscow Oblast (R) | 45 | 13 | 9 | 23 | 54 | 78 | −24 | 48 | Excluded from professional football |
| 14 | Dynamo Kostroma (R) | 45 | 6 | 11 | 28 | 33 | 73 | −40 | 29 | Excluded from professional football |
| 15 | Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo | 45 | 4 | 9 | 32 | 29 | 99 | −70 | 21 | |
| 16 | Volochanin-Ratmir Vyshny Volochyok (R) | 45 | 4 | 8 | 33 | 26 | 89 | −63 | 20 | Relegation to Amateur Football League |

### Top scorers

Source: rfspro.ru (in Russian)

#### 20 goals

* Viktor Svistunov (Petrotrest)

#### 18 goals

* Azamat Kurachinov (Sheksna)

#### 17 goals

* Dmitri Vakulich (Karelia)

#### 16 goals

* Aleksei Antonnikov (Volga)
* Fyodor Pronkov (Saturn)

#### 15 goals

* Murat Khotov (Dnepr / Petrotrest)

## Center
### Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Salyut Belgorod (C, P) | 39 | 25 | 8 | 6 | 78 | 31 | +47 | 83 | Promotion to Football National League |
| 2 | Avangard Kursk | 39 | 21 | 7 | 11 | 62 | 36 | +26 | 70 | |
| 3 | Vityaz Podolsk | 39 | 18 | 8 | 13 | 58 | 59 | −1 | 62 | |
| 4 | Metallurg-Oskol Stary Oskol | 39 | 17 | 8 | 14 | 51 | 50 | +1 | 59 | |
| 5 | Lokomotiv Liski | 39 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 47 | 41 | +6 | 58 | |
| 6 | Gubkin | 39 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 43 | 38 | +5 | 58 | |
| 7 | Metallurg Lipetsk | 39 | 16 | 8 | 15 | 55 | 53 | +2 | 56 | |
| 8 | Rusichi Oryol | 39 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 52 | 60 | −8 | 53 | |
| 9 | Kaluga | 39 | 14 | 10 | 15 | 37 | 41 | −4 | 52 | |
| 10 | Sokol Saratov | 39 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 56 | 55 | +1 | 52 | |
| 11 | Spartak Tambov | 39 | 11 | 10 | 18 | 46 | 58 | −12 | 43 | |
| 12 | Zvezda Ryazan | 39 | 11 | 9 | 19 | 44 | 60 | −16 | 42 | |
| 13 | Podolye Podolsky district | 39 | 9 | 8 | 22 | 33 | 56 | −23 | 35 | |
| 14 | Zenit Penza | 39 | 8 | 8 | 23 | 22 | 46 | −24 | 32 | |

### Top scorers

Source: rfspro.ru (in Russian)

#### 20 goals

* Aleksandr Kutyin (Metallurg)

#### 18 goals

* Yevgeni Polyakov (Rusichi)
* Denis Tkachuk (Salyut)

#### 17 goals

* Ivan Rodin (Vityaz)
* Karen Sargsyan (Avangard)

#### 16 goals

* Georgi Smurov (Sokol)

#### 14 goals

* Amir Bazhev (Salyut)

## South
### Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Rotor Volgograd (C, P) | 34 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 67 | 16 | +51 | 79 | Promotion to Football National League |
| 2 | Armavir | 34 | 22 | 6 | 6 | 53 | 21 | +32 | 72 | |
| 3 | Slavyansky Slavyansk-na-Kubani | 34 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 47 | 24 | +23 | 64 | |
| 4 | Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk | 34 | 18 | 5 | 11 | 43 | 33 | +10 | 59 | |
| 5 | Dagdizel Kaspiysk | 34 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 45 | 28 | +17 | 59 | |
| 6 | Astrakhan | 34 | 17 | 5 | 12 | 64 | 49 | +15 | 56 | |
| 7 | Angusht Nazran | 34 | 15 | 5 | 14 | 48 | 46 | +2 | 50 | |
| 8 | Dynamo Stavropol (R) | 34 | 15 | 4 | 15 | 51 | 41 | +10 | 49 | Excluded from professional football |
| 9 | MITOS Novocherkassk | 34 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 48 | 42 | +6 | 48 | |
| 10 | Kavkaztransgaz-2005 Ryzdvyany | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 39 | 39 | 0 | 45 | |
| 11 | FAYUR Beslan (R) | 34 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 41 | 59 | −18 | 41 | Excluded from professional football |
| 12 | Druzhba Maykop | 34 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 42 | 44 | −2 | 41 | |
| 13 | Taganrog | 34 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 40 | 51 | −11 | 37 | |
| 14 | Olimpia Gelendzhik (R) | 34 | 10 | 4 | 20 | 37 | 56 | −19 | 34 | Excluded from professional football |
| 15 | Biolog-Novokubansk | 34 | 7 | 12 | 15 | 32 | 40 | −8 | 33 | |
| 16 | Energiya Volzhsky | 34 | 9 | 5 | 20 | 35 | 68 | −33 | 32 | |
| 17 | Alania-d Vladikavkaz | 34 | 9 | 3 | 22 | 29 | 71 | −42 | 30 | |
| 18 | SKA Rostov-on-Don | 34 | 8 | 4 | 22 | 26 | 59 | −33 | 28 | |

### Top scorers

Source: rfspro.ru (in Russian)

#### 19 goals

* Mikhail Biryukov (Astrakhan)

#### 16 goals

* Artyom Maslevskiy (Taganrog)

#### 15 goals

* Valeri Basiyev (Olimpia)

#### 13 goals

* Dmitry Mezinov (MITOS)
* Denis Pavlov (Torpedo)
* Timirlan Shavanov (Dagdizel)

#### 11 goals

* Magomed Guguyev (Angusht)
* Rustam Khabekirov (Druzhba)
* Aslanbek Konov (Kavkaztransgaz-2005)
* Sergei Verkashanskiy (Torpedo)
* Ruslan Zyazikov (Angusht)

## Ural-Povolzhye
### Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk (C, P) | 39 | 26 | 8 | 5 | 68 | 25 | +43 | 86 | Promotion to Football National League |
| 2 | Ufa (P) | 39 | 25 | 11 | 3 | 54 | 19 | +35 | 86 | Promotion to Football National League |
| 3 | Volga Ulyanovsk | 39 | 22 | 7 | 10 | 54 | 31 | +23 | 73 | |
| 4 | Akademiya Togliatti | 39 | 19 | 8 | 12 | 61 | 36 | +25 | 65 | |
| 5 | Chelyabinsk | 39 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 42 | 28 | +14 | 64 | |
| 6 | Tyumen | 39 | 17 | 12 | 10 | 52 | 35 | +17 | 63 | |
| 7 | Gornyak Uchaly | 39 | 14 | 16 | 9 | 57 | 45 | +12 | 58 | |
| 8 | Syzran-2003 | 39 | 13 | 10 | 16 | 42 | 48 | −6 | 49 | |
| 9 | Khimik Dzerzhinsk | 39 | 13 | 9 | 17 | 41 | 52 | −11 | 48 | |
| 10 | Zenit-Izhevsk | 39 | 12 | 10 | 17 | 50 | 52 | −2 | 46 | |
| 11 | Oktan Perm | 39 | 12 | 5 | 22 | 44 | 65 | −21 | 41 | |
| 12 | Rubin-2 Kazan | 39 | 7 | 8 | 24 | 32 | 57 | −25 | 29 | |
| 13 | Dynamo Kirov | 39 | 5 | 11 | 23 | 23 | 64 | −41 | 26 | |
| 14 | Nosta Novotroitsk | 39 | 3 | 8 | 28 | 19 | 82 | −63 | 17 | |

### Top scorers

Source: rfspro.ru (in Russian)

#### 25 goals

* Aleksandr Korotayev (Akademiya)

#### 17 goals

* Aleksei Sapogov (Gornyak)

#### 16 goals

* Yuri Budylin (Neftekhimik)

#### 11 goals

* Anton Bobylev (Volga)
* Ruslan Galiakberov (Rubin-2)

#### 10 goals

* Aleksei Kotlyarov (Neftekhimik)
* Oleg Makeyev (Khimik)

## East
### Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk (C, P) | 36 | 24 | 6 | 6 | 64 | 24 | +40 | 78 | Promotion to Football National League |
| 2 | Mostovik-Primorye Ussuriysk (R) | 36 | 19 | 6 | 11 | 54 | 31 | +23 | 63 | Excluded from professional football |
| 3 | Chita | 36 | 17 | 8 | 11 | 49 | 33 | +16 | 59 | |
| 4 | Irtysh Omsk | 36 | 16 | 9 | 11 | 52 | 38 | +14 | 57 | |
| 5 | Dynamo Barnaul | 36 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 54 | 41 | +13 | 56 | |
| 6 | Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | 36 | 15 | 8 | 13 | 40 | 41 | −1 | 53 | |
| 7 | Radian-Baikal Irkutsk | 36 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 42 | 37 | +5 | 52 | |
| 8 | Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure | 36 | 12 | 15 | 9 | 47 | 30 | +17 | 51 | |
| 9 | KUZBASS Kemerovo (R) | 36 | 12 | 6 | 18 | 34 | 40 | −6 | 42 | Excluded from professional football |
| 10 | Sibiryak Bratsk | 36 | 11 | 7 | 18 | 43 | 62 | −19 | 40 | |
| 11 | Amur-2010 Blagoveshchensk | 36 | 9 | 11 | 16 | 30 | 45 | −15 | 38 | |
| 12 | Yakutiya Yakutsk | 36 | 7 | 8 | 21 | 38 | 76 | −38 | 29 | |
| 13 | Sibir-2 Novosibirsk | 36 | 5 | 9 | 22 | 31 | 80 | −49 | 24 | |

### Top scorers

Source: rfspro.ru (in Russian)

#### 18 goals

* Sergei Vinogradov (Sakhalin)

#### 16 goals

* Yevgeni Alkhimov (Chita)
* Vyacheslav Kirillov (Sibiryak / Metallurg-Kuzbass)

#### 13 goals

* Andrei Lodis (Smena)
* Ivan Shpakov (Metallurg-Kuzbass)

#### 10 goals

* Aleksandr Golubev (Metallurg-Kuzbass)
* Andrei Volgin (Metallurg-Kuzbass)

#### 9 goals

* Anton Bagayev (Irtysh)
* Aleksandr Bulanovskiy (Yakutiya)
* Ivan Goryunov (Dynamo)
* Aleksei Sabanov (Sibiryak)
* Yevgeni Shcherbakov (Chita / Irtysh)
* Maksim Zhitnev (Sibir-2)

## Team names

In the Russian sports tradition, each team has a proper name written in parentheses followed by the indication of the city it represents in brackets: "Spartak" (Moscow), rather than Moscow Spartak, as would be in the English-language tradition. In English, the parentheses and brackets are usually omitted. Further, while North American team names normally use the plural (Chicago Bulls), Russian team names are usually singular. The names tend to reflect the imagined profession of the team players (or rather their fans, like with Edmonton Oilers), or refer to a geographical object related to the city the team represents (usually, a river or a mountain range), or to one of the former Russian-wide sports associations (Spartak, Dynamo etc.), or else to the sponsoring corporation. Below is the list of Second Division teams with their names translated:
| Akademiya (Togliatti) | = Academy, team of the Konoplyov football academy in Togliatti |
| Alania-d (Vladikavkaz) | refers to North Ossetia (Alania) Republic. Second team of Alania Vladikavkaz; "D" stand for dubl = alternate; |
| Amur-2010 (Blagoveshchensk) | refers to the Amur River |
| Angusht (Nazran) | = Ingushetia Republic, in the Ingush language |
| Astrakhan | |
| Avangard (Kursk) | = Vanguard |
| Biolog (Novokubansk) | = Biologist, reflects sponsorship by the Armavir Biological Factory |
| Chelyabinsk | city name |
| Chita | city name |
| Dagdizel (Kaspiysk) | refers to the sponsoring corporation, an acronym literally translated as "the Dagestan diesel engines factory" |
| Dnepr (Smolensk) | refers to the Dnieper river |
| Druzhba (Maykop) | = Friendship |
| Dynamo (Barnaul) | see Dynamo Sports Club |
| Dynamo (Kirov) | |
| Dynamo (Kostroma) | |
| Dynamo (Stavropol) | |
| Dynamo (Vologda) | |
| Energiya (Volzhsky) | = Energy, refers to the Volga Hydroelectric Station in Volshsky |
| FAYUR (Beslan) | refers to the sponsoring corporation |
| Gornyak (Uchaly) | = Miner, refers to the copper and zinc mining industry in Uchaly |
| Gubkin | city name |
| Irtysh (Omsk) | refers to the Irtysh river |
| Istra | city name |
| Kaluga | city name |
| Karelia (Petrozavodsk) | refers to Karelia Republic |
| Kavkaztransgaz-2005 (Ryzdvyany) | refers to the sponsoring corporation, an acronym literally translated as "the Caucasus company for gas transit" |
| Khimik (Dzerzhinsk) | = Chemical industry worker, refers to industries in Dzerzhinsk |
| Kuzbass (Kemerovo) | = Kuznetsky Basseyn = Kuznetsk Basin, the coal mining area |
| Lokomotiv-2 (Moscow) | second team of Lokomotiv Moscow; the name reflects sponsorship by Russian Railways |
| Lokomotiv (Liski) | refers to historical sponsorship by the Liski division of Russian Railways |
| Mashuk-KMV (Pyatigorsk) | refers to Mount Mashuk. KMV = Kavkazskie Mineralnye Vody = "Mineral Waters of the Caucasus", often used as the name of the region to which Pyatigorsk belongs |
| Metallurg (Lipetsk) | = Metallurgist, refers to Novolipetsk Steel works in Lipetsk |
| Metallurg-Kuzbass (Novokuznetsk) | Kuzbass = Kuznetsky Basseyn = Kuznetsk Basin, the coal mining area |
| Metallurg-Oskol (Stary Oskol) | = Metallurgist, refers to Oskol Electrometallurgic works in Stary Oskol |
| MITOS (Novocherkassk) | refers to the sponsoring corporation |
| Mostovik-Primorye (Ussuriysk) | Mostovik = Bridge engineer, reflects sponsorship by a local bridge constructing company. Primorye (= "seaside") is the colloquial name of Primorsky Krai region. |
| Neftekhimik (Nizhnekamsk) | = Petrochemical industry worker, refers to Nizhnekamskneftekhim Co. |
| Nosta (Novotroitsk) | Novotroitskaya Stal = "Novotroitsk Steel", the sponsoring corporation |
| Oktan (Perm) | = Octane, referring to petrochemical industries in Perm |
| Olimpia (Gelendzhik) | = Olympia |
| Podolye (Podolsk District) | Podolye = lands around Podolsk, although the term is usually used when referring to Podolia in present-day Ukraine |
| Petrotrest (St.Petersburg) | refers to the sponsoring corporation |
| Pskov-747 (Pskov) | city name |
| Radian-Baikal (Irkutsk) | refers to the sponsoring corporation and Lake Baikal |
| Rotor (Volgograd) | = Rotor, historically sponsored by the Volgograd tractor factory |
| Rubin-2 (Kazan) | = Ruby. Second team of Rubin Kazan. |
| Rusichi (Oryol) | = Rus' people |
| Sakhalin (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) | refers to the Sakhalin Island |
| Salyut (Belgorod) | = Salute, refers to Belgorod's unofficial status of "the city of the first salute", the city being the first one whose liberation during the World War II in 1943 was marked by a fireworks salute |
| Saturn-2 (Moscow Oblast) | = Saturn, second team of Saturn Ramenskoye; historically sponsored by an aviation equipment factory |
| Sever (Murmansk) | = North |
| Sheksna (Cherepovets) | refers to the Sheksna River |
| Sibir-2 (Novosibirsk) | = Siberia. Second team of Sibir Novosibirsk |
| Sibiryak (Bratsk) | = The Siberian |
| SKA (Rostov-on-Don) | = Sportivny Klub Armii = Sports Club of the Army, a usual name for army teams during the Soviet period (see CSKA) |
| Slavyanski (Slavyansk-na-Kubani) | = The Slav FC |
| Smena (Komsomolsk-na-Amure) | = New generation, probably reflecting that the city itself is named after Komsomol, the Young Communist League |
| Sokol (Saratov) | = Falcon, the name that a football team from Saratov first acquired in 1913 |
| Spartak (Kostroma) | see Spartak |
| Spartak (Tambov) | |
| Syzran-2003 (Syzran) | city name |
| Taganrog | city name |
| Tekstilshchik (Ivanovo) | = Textile worker, Ivanovo historically considered the centre of the Russian textile industry |
| Torpedo (Armavir) | Torpedo is a common name for teams sponsored by industries during the Soviet period, see e.g. Torpedo Moscow |
| Tyumen | city name |
| Ufa | city name |
| Volga (Tver) | refers to the Volga river |
| Volga (Ulyanovsk) | |
| Volochanin-Ratmir (Vyshny Volochyok) | Volochanin and Ratmir are the names of the two teams that merged in 2002. Volochanin = citizen of Vyshny Volochyok; Ratmir is a corporation based in Tver. |
| Yakutiya (Yakutsk) | refers to Yakutia Republic |
| Znamya Truda (Orekhovo-Zuyevo) | = The Banner of the Labour, a relatively common name for teams, clubs, newspapers etc. during the Soviet period |
| Vityaz (Podolsk) | = Warrior |
| Zenit (Penza) | = Zenith; see Zenit (sports society) |
| Zenit-Izhevsk (Izhevsk) | |
| Zvezda (Ryazan) | = Star |