1940 Soviet First League information

The 1940 Soviet football championship in Gruppa B (Russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу в группе «Б») was fifth season of the (second tier) professional...

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...

Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. Despite superior military strength, especially in tanks and aircraft, the Soviet Union suffered severe losses and...

The Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina took place from 28 June to 3 July 1940, as a result of an ultimatum by the Soviet Union to Romania...

1945 Soviet Top League (debut) FC Burevestnik Moscow – (returning, last competed in 1940) FC Pischevik Moscow – (returning, last competed in 1940) FC Sudostroitel...

The 1945 Soviet First League was the first post-war season and the fifth since the establishing of the second tier. The tier was named the Second Group...

The Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940 refers to the military occupation of the Republic of Latvia by the Soviet Union under the provisions of the 1939...

by the Soviet Union 15 June 1940) Latvia (joined 22 September 1921; occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union 15 June 1940) Lithuania (joined 22 September...

The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (Russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига, romanized: Vyschaya Liga), served as the...

Basketball League, or Soviet Union Premier Basketball League (also called Supreme League), was the first-tier men's professional basketball league in the...

was merged with FC Stalinets Leningrad into FC Zenit Leningrad playing in the Gruppa A (Soviet Top League). 1939 Soviet Top League 1939 Gruppa B. RSSSF...

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union or Russia was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia...

Respublika), also known as Soviet Lithuania or simply Lithuania, was de facto one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union between 1940–1941 and 1944–1990...

independent Republic of Estonia on 21 July 1940, a month after the 16–17 June 1940 Soviet military invasion and occupation of the country during World War II....

The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed by Finland and the Soviet Union on 12 March 1940, and the ratifications were exchanged on 21 March. It marked the end...

that some teams such as Kairat Almaty participated in the upper leagues of the Soviet annual football competition. There was no solidly established independent...

disrupted in 1940 with the Soviet occupation of Estonia. Cultural autonomy together with all its institutions was liquidated in July 1940. In July and...

the Russian Revolution, that the Soviet Union established a national championship of clubs. Before then local leagues in Moscow and Saint Petersburg/Leningrad...

Champions League. The Uzbek League was founded in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its domestic league, the Soviet Top League. The league is known...

Вища ліга, Top League) it was formed in 1991 during the 1992 Ukrainian football championship upon discontinuation of the 1991 Soviet football championship...

The Soviet League of the Militant Godless Cornell University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-8014-3485-3 Paul Dixon, Religion in the Soviet Union, first published...

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...

which lasted until the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940. After World War II, between 1945 and 1991 the championship of Soviet Latvia was the main footballing...

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...

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...