1937 Soviet Cup

1937 Cup of USSR in Football

Кубок СССР
Tournament details
Country	Soviet Union
Dates	May 23 – July 16
Teams	125[1]
Defending champions	Lokomotiv Moscow
Final positions
Champions	Dinamo Moscow
Runner-up	Dinamo Tbilisi

The 1937 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union.

Participating teams

Enter in First Round
29 teams of masters	95 other teams
Y CDKA Moscow Y Dinamo Kiev Y Dinamo Leningrad Y Dinamo Moscow Y Krasnaya Zaria Leningrad Y Lokomotiv Moscow Y Spartak Moscow Y Dinamo Tbilisi Y Stalinets Moscow Y Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu Y Torpedo Moscow Y Selmash Kharkov Y Metallurg Moscow Y Stalinets Leningrad Y Temp Baku Y Spartak Leningrad Y Dinamo Kazan Y Dinamo Odessa Y Spartak Kharkov Y Dinamo Kharkov Y Lokomotiv Tbilisi Y Dinamo Dnepropetrovsk Y Ugolschiki Stalino Y Dinamo Gorkiy Y Lokomotiv Kiev Y Stal Konstantinovka Y Traktor Kharkov Y Traktor Stalingrad Y Stal Dnepropetrovsk	Y DKA Ashkhabad (+) Y Dinamo Baku Y Lokomotiv Baku (+) Y Neftianik Baku (+) Y Stroiteli Baku Y Dinamo Batumi Y Dinamo Bolshevo Y Temp Chebokssary (+) Y Dinamo Chelyabinsk Y Traktor Cherlyabinsk (+) Y Zolotoprofsoyuz Chita (+) Y Lokomotiv Dnepropetrovsk Y Spartak Dnepropetrovsk (+) Y Zavod imeni Petrovskogo Dnepropetrovsk Y Metallurg Elektrostal (+) Y Krylia Sovetov Gorkiy (+) Y Torpedo Gorkiy Y Spartak Gorkiy (+) Y Dinamo Irkutsk (+) Y Krylia Sovetov Irkutsk (+) Y Dinamo Ivanovo (+) Y Spartak Ivanovo Y Torpedo Izhevsk (+) Y Zenit Izhevsk Y Lokomotiv Kharkov Y Stalinets Kharkov (+) Y Zdorovye Kharkov (+) Y Spartak Kiev Y Dinamo Kirov (+) Y Snaiper Kirov (+) Y Dzerzhinets Kolomna Y Stroitel Komsomolsk-na-Amure (+) Y Avangard Kramatorsk (+) Y Zavod imeni Stalina Kramatorsk (+) Y Dinamo Krasnoyarsk (+) Y Stroitel Krivoi Rog (+) Y Spartak Kuibyshev Y Zenit Kuibyshev (+) Y Dinamo Kungur Y Dinamo Kursk (+) Y DKA Leningrad (+) Y GOLIFK Leningrad (+) Y Izhorsky Zavod (Avangard) Leningrad (+) Y Kirovsky Zavod (Avangard) Leningrad (+) Y Zavod imeni Ordzhonikidze Leningrad (+) Y Zavod imeni Stalina Leningrad (+) Y Dinamo Lyubertsy Y Selmash Lyubertsy (+) Y Metallurg Magnitogorsk (+) Y Dinamo Minsk	Y Spartak Minsk (+) Y Burevestnik Moscow Y Dinamo-2 Moscow Y Energiya Moscow Y KIM Moscow (+) Y Krasnaya Roza Moscow (+) Y Krasnoye Znamia Moscow (+) Y Krasny Konditer Moscow (+) Y Krylia Sovetov Moscow Y Lokomotiv-2 Moscow Y Pravda Moscow Y Spartak-2 Moscow (+) Y Sudostroitel Nikolayev Y Krasnoye Znamia Noginsk Y Industrialny Institut Novocherkassk (+) Y Dinamo Novosibirsk (+) Y Spartak Novosibirsk (+) Y Dinamo Omsk (+) Y Krasnoye Znamia Orekhovo-Zuyevo Y Monolit Orekhovo-Zuyevo (+) Y Burevestnik Rostov-na-Donu Y Spartak Ryazan (+) Y Krylia Sovetov Rybinsk (+) Y Dinamo Saratov (+) Y Spartak Saratov (+) Y Lokomotiv Serpukhov (+) Y Sudostroitel Sevastopol Y Lokomotiv Slaviansk-na-Kubani (+) Y DKA BVO Smolensk Y Sudostroitel Sormovo (+) Y Dinamo Stalinabad (+) Y Metallurg Stalingrad (+) Y Metallurg Stalinsk (+) Y Zenit Taganrog (+) Y Spartak Tashkent (+) Y Lokomotiv Vologda (+) Y Dinamo Voronezh Y Dzerzhinets Voroshilovgrad (+) Y Avangard Votkinsk (+) Y Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (+) Y Lokomotiv Yasinovataya (+) Y Krasnoye Znamia Yegoryevsk Y Dinamo Yerevan (+) Y Stroitel Yerevan (+) Y Krylia Sovetov Zaporozhye

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Notes

• Dzerzhinets Bezhitsa and Spartak Yerevan (+) were given bye to the second round.
• (+) indicates teams that debuted in the competition.
• Former team of masters Dinamo Piatigorsk was not included in the competition. Also, the competition missed seven more teams that for the 1937 season were granted status of teams of masters: Spartak Kalinin, Dinamo Tashkent, Dinamo Sverdlovsk, Dinamo Alma-Ata, Sudostroitel Vladivostok, DKA Omsk, Lokomotiv Krasnoyarsk.

Competition schedule

First round

[May 23] 
Lokomotiv Vologda                    1-10 CDKA Moskva 
SPARTAK Kiev                         7-3  Monolit Orekhovo-Zuyevo 
[May 24] 
Izhorsky Zavod (Avangard) Leningrad  3-3  Spartak Minsk 
Avangard Votkinsk                    0-8  DINAMO Kazan  
DINAMO Batumi                        2-0  Stroiteli Baku 
DINAMO Gorkiy                        5-1  SelMash Lyubertsy
Dinamo Ivanovo                       0-4  SPARTAK-2 Moskva  
DINAMO Kiev                          3-0  DKA BVO Smolensk 
  [Pavel Komarov 1, Nikolai Makhinya 85, Konstantin Shchegodskiy 88] 
DINAMO Kirov                         2-1  Krylya Sovetov Gorkiy 
  [V.Vedernikov, Tatarintsev – A.Tabakov] 
DINAMO Krasnoyarsk                   4-2  Krylya Sovetov Irkutsk 
  [K.Litvinov 5, P.Leonov 30, 33, V.Sokolov 40 - ?] 
Dinamo Kungur                        1-8  DINAMO Leningrad  
Dinamo Kursk                         2-6  STALINETS Moskva           [aet] 
Dinamo Lyubertsy                     1-3  TORPEDO Gorkiy 
  [? - Leonid Yefimov, Viktor Drozdov, Nikolai Dunayev] 
Dinamo Minsk                         1-4  DINAMO Moskva 
  [Viktor Lakhonin 56 – Mikhail Semichastny 43, Sergei Ilyin 80, 88 pen, Alexei Ponomaryov 83] 
DINAMO Odessa                        7-0  Krasnoye Znamya Orekhovo-Zuyevo 
  [Leonid Orekhov 10, Mikhail Malkhasov 20, Ivan Borisevich 40, Yuzef Sositskiy 50, Vladimir Tokar 60, ?, ?] 
DINAMO Stalinabad                    2-1  Spartak Tashkent 
  [K.Pogorelov, P.Babich - ?] 
Dinamo Voronezh                      0-1  SPARTAK Kharkov            [asdet] 
  [Anatoliy Lesnoi 133] 
DKA Leningrad                        2-1  Krasnoye Znamya Moskva 
DZERZHINETS Voroshilovgrad           4-2  Krasnaya Zarya Leningrad 
  [Nikolai Lakotosh-2, Vladimir Movchan, ? - Pyotr Grigoryev, ?] 
GOLIFK Leningrad                     7-2  Metallurg Elektrostal 
Industrialny Institut Novocherkassk  1-3  DINAMO Kharkov 
  [Semyonov 69 pen – Vasiliy Makarov 10, ?, ?] 
KRASNOYE ZNAMYA Noginsk              4-1  Krasny Konditer Moskva 
KRYLYA SOVETOV Moskva                3-0  Lokomotiv Kiev 
Krylya Sovetov Rybinsk               1-9  SPARTAK Ivanovo 
LOKOMOTIV Dnepropetrovsk             7-2  KIM Moskva 
LOKOMOTIV Kharkov                    3-1  Kirovsky Zavod (Avangard) Leningrad 
LOKOMOTIV Serpukhov                  2-1  Krylya Sovetov Zaporozhye 
Lokomotiv Slavyansk-na-Kubani        0-6  DINAMO Rostov-na-Donu 
LOKOMOTIV Tbilisi                    4-1  Dinamo Baku 
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl                  1-5  KRASNOYE ZNAMYA Yegoryevsk 
  [M.Serdyukov 25 - ?] 
Lokomotiv Yasinovataya               0-6  DINAMO Dnepropetrovsk 
METALLURG Magnitogorsk               3-1  Dinamo Chelyabinsk 
Metallurg Stalingrad                 2-3  TORPEDO Moskva             [aet] 
  [Sergei Protsenko 15, ? - ?] 
NEFTYANIK Baku                       1-0  Dinamo Yerevan 
SELMASH Kharkov                      1-0  Lokomotiv-2 Moskva         [aet]
  [Fyodor Morgunov 94] 
SNIPER Kirov                         2-0  Zenit Izhevsk 
  [S.Kosaryov 25, ?] 
SPARTAK Novosibirsk                  2-0  Metallurg Stalinsk   
Spartak Saratov                      3-5  SPARTAK Kuibyshev          [aet] 
  [Ryazanov, Gusev, Serebryakov - ?] 
Stal Konstantinovka                  2-5  METALLURG Moskva 
  [? – Grigoriy Fedotov 12, Pavel Kudryavtsev 17, Nikolai Kononenko 57, ?...] 
Stalinets Leningrad                  1-2  AVANGARD Kramatorsk 
  [Konstantin Sazonov 75 – G.Korostynskiy 28, I.Korostylyov 72] 
STROITEL Krivoi Rog                  w/o  Krasnaya Roza Moskva 
Stroitel Yerevan                     1-6  TEMP Baku 
Sudostroitel Nikolayev               0-4  LOKOMOTIV Moskva 
  [Viktor Novikov 50, Gaik Andriasov 55, Nikolai Ilyin 60, ?] 
Sudostroitel Sevastopol              0-1  ZDOROVYE Kharkov 
  [Poluyanov 40] 
Sudostroitel Sormovo                 0-3  SPARTAK Moskva 
  [Stepan Kustylkin 10, 20, Viktor Semyonov ?] 
Temp Cheboksary                      1-9  DINAMO-2 Moskva 
  [Bespalov 59 – Nikolai Postavnin 16, 31, Savostyanov 22, 40, 65, Ukhmylov 43, Morozov 54, Mysin 71, Fursov 82 pen] 
TORPEDO Izhevsk                      2-1  Spartak Gorkiy 
Traktor Chelyabinsk                  2-3  DINAMO Omsk                [aet]
TRAKTOR Kharkov                      1-0  Burevestnik Moskva 
TRAKTOR Stalingrad                   9-1  Dinamo Saratov 
ZENIT Kuibyshev                      2-0  Spartak Ryazan  
  [I.Kuznetsov 45, A.Chuprunov 65] 
Zenit Taganrog                       1-9  DINAMO Tbilisi 
  [Bagnenko – Mikhail Berdzenishvili, Boris Paichadze, ?...] 
Zavod imeni Ordzhonikidze Leningrad  3-1  Dzerzhinets Kolomna 
Zavod imeni Stalina Kramatorsk[a]     1-6  SPARTAK Dnepropetrovsk 
Zavod imeni Stalina Leningrad[b]      2-5  STALINETS Kharkov 
ZOLOTOPROFSOYUZ Chita                3-2  Stroitel Komsomolsk-na-Amure 
  [V.Antonov-2, V.Volkov-pen – M.Fedyushkin-2] 
[May 25] 
LOKOMOTIV Baku                       4-0  DKA Ashkhabad 
Stakhanovets Stalino                 1-2  SPARTAK Leningrad 
  [Vasiliy Sidorov 33 - ?] 
[May 26] 
DINAMO Bolshevo                      2-1  Burevestnik Rostov-na-Donu 
Dinamo Irkutsk                       0-2  DINAMO Novosibirsk  
[May 27] 
Stal Dnepropetrovsk                  0-2  ENERGIYA Moskva 
Zavod imeni Petrovskogo Dnepropetrovsk 0-1  PRAVDA Moskva

First round replays

[May 26] 
Izhorsky Zavod (Avangard) Leningrad  1-3  SPARTAK Minsk

Second round

[May 29] 
SPARTAK Leningrad                    5-0  Pravda Moskva 
[May 30] 
Avangard Kramatorsk                  0-0  SelMash Kharkov 
CDKA Moskva                          5-0  Torpedo Izhevsk 
  [Mikhail Kireyev 9, 19, 37, Nikolai Isayev 23 pen, ?] 
Dinamo Batumi                        0-1  NEFTYANIK Baku 
Dinamo Krasnoyarsk                   2-3  SPARTAK Novosibirsk 
  [V.Sokolov, P.Leonov – N.Volkov, Fomin, ?] 
DINAMO Odessa                        3-1  Zdorovye Kharkov           [aet]
  [Mikhail Malkhasov 4, Leonid Orekhov 100 pen, 110 pen – G.Kulishov 80] 
Dinamo Omsk                          1-5  DINAMO Kazan 
DINAMO Rostov-na-Donu                8-1  Energiya Moskva 
Dzerzhinets Bezhitsa                 4-6  SPARTAK Dnepropetrovsk     [aet] 
DZERZHINETS Voroshilovgrad           2-1  Traktor Kharkov 
  [Movchan 20, Nosko 25 pen – Alexandr Moskalyov ?] 
KRASNOYE ZNAMYA Noginsk              3-0  Spartak Minsk 
  [Glazkov 15, 35, Vasiliy Zharkov 65] 
Krasnoye Znamya Yegoryevsk           0-3  DINAMO Moskva 
  [Vasiliy Smirnov 21, Alexei Ponomaryov 33, Mikhail Yakushin 68] 
LOKOMOTIV Dnepropetrovsk             3-2  Metallurg Moskva 
  [Gotselyuk 10 pen, 70, Seryogin 81 – Kuzin 33, Selin 55] 
Lokomotiv Kharkov                    1-6  LOKOMOTIV Moskva 
  [Mikhailichenko 6 – Mikhail Zhukov 40, 85, Pyotr Terenkov ?, ?...] 
Lokomotiv Serpukhov                  1-5  DINAMO-2 Moskva 
  [Kryukov 73 – Savostyanov 10, Ukhmylov 25, Morozov 41, Shcherbov 64 – Lapshin 82] 
LOKOMOTIV Tbilisi                    3-1  Temp Baku 
Metallurg Magnitogorsk               0-5  DINAMO Leningrad 
  [Pyotr Dementyev 12, Pyotr Bykov 27, Nikolai Svetlov 38, Viktor Fyodorov 85 pen, ?] 
Sniper Kirov                         0-8  GOLIFK Leningrad 
Spartak Ivanovo                      1-2  DINAMO Gorkiy 
SPARTAK Kharkov                      4-1  DKA Leningrad 
  [Anatoliy Lesnoi, Alexei Serov, Naum Knyazhevskiy, Ivan Serov – F.Ivanov] 
SPARTAK Kiev                         w/o  Dinamo Dnepropetrovsk 
Spartak Kuibyshev                    1-4  TORPEDO Moskva 
  [A.Semyonov 55 – Viktor Semyonov 12, ?..] 
Stalinets Kharkov                    1-5  KRYLYA SOVETOV Moskva 
STALINETS Moskva                     2-1  Spartak-2 Moskva 
  [Sergei Ivanov 20, ? 55 – Nikolai Zhigalin 81] 
Stroitel Krivoi Rog                  0-3  DINAMO Kharkov 
TORPEDO Gorkiy                       4-0  Zenit Kuibyshev 
  [Nikolai Dunayev 15, 25, 35, Viktor Drozdov ?] 
ZiO Leningrad                        1-8  DINAMO Kiev 
  [? – Konstantin Shchegodskiy 10, 20, Makar Goncharenko 15, 35, 75, Ivan Kuzmenko 20, ?..] 
[May 31] 
Dinamo Kirov                         2-4  DINAMO Bolshevo 
DINAMO Tbilisi                       4-1  Spartak Yerevan 
  [Mikhail Berdzenishvili 40, Boris Paichadze 60, Tengiz Gavasheli 70, Nikolai Somov 80 – Paruir Aroyan 30] 
SPARTAK Moskva                       3-2  Traktor Stalingrad         [asdet]
  [Viktor Semyonov 50, Vladimir Stepanov 85, Georgiy Glazkov 127 – Alexandr Ponomaryov 22, Georgiy Shlyapin 58] 
ZolotoProfSoyuz Chita                0-1  DINAMO Novosibirsk 
  [G.Smurov]  
[Jun 3] 
LOKOMOTIV Baku                       5-2  Dinamo Stalinabad

Second round replays

[Jun 1] 
AVANGARD Kramatorsk                  1-0  SelMash Kharkov 
  [G.Korotinskiy]

Third round

[Jun 5] 
CDKA Moskva                          2-1  Dinamo-2 Moskva 
  [Konstantin Malinin 72 pen] 
KRYLYA SOVETOV Moskva                3-0  Dzerzhinets Voroshilovgrad 
  [?, ?, Fyodor Karasyov 74] 
[Jun 6] 
Dinamo Gorkiy                        0-5  DINAMO Kiev 
  [Viktor Shilovskiy 13, 60, 86, Konstantin Shchegodskiy 20, S.Kozinets (DG) 29 og]
Dinamo Kharkov                       0-2  LOKOMOTIV Moskva 
  [? 46, Vasiliy Serdyukov 60] 
DINAMO Moskva                        5-2  Torpedo Gorkiy 
  [Mikhail Semichastny 14, Vasiliy Smirnov 30 pen, Alexei Ponomaryov 44, Sergei Ilyin 45, 66 – Leonid Yefimov 6, 61] 
DINAMO Tbilisi                       3-0  Neftyanik Baku 
  [Mikhail Aslamazov 4, Mikhail Berdzenishvili 10 pen, Boris Paichadze 68] 
Spartak Dnepropetrovsk               0-1  DINAMO Rostov-na-Donu 
  [Sergei Dombazov 50] 
SPARTAK Kharkov                      3-2  Lokomotiv Dnepropetrovsk   [aet] 
  [Alexei Serov 83, 85, Voronkov (L) 102 og – Vasiliy Gotsalyuk 25, 30] 
SPARTAK Kiev                         3-0  Avangard Kramatorsk  
Spartak Leningrad                    0-3  DINAMO Odessa 
  [Ivan Borisevich 22, Leonid Orekhov 42 pen, ?] 
[Jun 7] 
GOLIFK Leningrad                     2-1  Stalinets Moskva           [aet] 
Spartak Moskva                       1-1  Krasnoye Znamya Noginsk 
  [Viktor Semyonov 80 – Ye.Glazkov 50] 
TORPEDO Moskva                       2-1  Dinamo Bolshevo 
  [Viktor Listikov 23 pen, Konstantin Ryazantsev 51 – Viktor Osminkin 46] 
[Jun 8] 
Dinamo Leningrad                     0-1  SPARTAK Novosibirsk 
  [Dunayev 80] 
LOKOMOTIV Tbilisi                    3-1  Lokomotiv Baku 
[Jun 11] 
DINAMO Kazan                         6-0  Dinamo Novosibirsk

Third round replays

[Jun 9] 
SPARTAK Moskva                       5-0  Krasnoye Znamya Noginsk 
  [Viktor Semyonov 8, 44, Leonid Rumyantsev 14, Vladimir Stepanov 80, Stanislav Leuta 85]

Fourth round

[Jun 11] 
DINAMO Kazan                         6-0  Spartak Novosibirsk 
DINAMO Moskva                        3-2  GOLIFK Leningrad           [aet] 
  [Sergei Ilyin 71 pen, Vasiliy Smirnov 86, 96 pen – Leonid Noritsyn 57, Valentin Shelagin 58] 
[Jun 12] 
DINAMO Kiev                          4-2  Torpedo Moskva             [aet] 
  [Pyotr Laiko 16, Konstantin Shchegodskiy 63, 106, Ivan Kuzmenko 110 - ? 37, ? 73] 
DINAMO Odessa                        4-0  Krylya Sovetov Moskva 
  [Yuzef Sositskiy 15, Makar Gichkin 19, Ivan Borisevich 30, 62] 
DINAMO Tbilisi                       4-0  Lokomotiv Tbilisi 
  [Mikhail Berdzenishvili 32, 40 pen, Tengiz Gavasheli 57, Nikolai Somov 87]
LOKOMOTIV Moskva                     2-0  Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu 
  [Gaik Andriasov 61, 79] 
SPARTAK Kharkov                      4-0  Spartak Kiev 
  [Alexei Serov 15, 70, 83, Anatoliy Lesnoi 75] 
[Jun 13] 
CDKA Moskva                          1-0  Spartak Moskva             [aet] 
  [Mikhail Kireyev 118]

Quarterfinals

[Jun 17] 
LOKOMOTIV Moskva                     4-1  Spartak Kharkov 
  [Gaik Andriasov 20, 35, Pyotr Terenkov 37, 64 - ?] 
[Jun 18] 
CDKA Moskva                          3-1  Dinamo Odessa 
  [Nikolai Isayev 11, Konstantin Malinin 37 pen, Ivan Mitronov 59 – Leonid Orekhov 30]
[Jun 19] 
DINAMO Tbilisi                       2-1  Dinamo Kiev 
  [Mikhail Aslamazov 13, Mikhail Berdzenishvili 47 – Konstantin Shchegodskiy 84] 
[Jun 20] 
DINAMO Moskva                        5-1  Dinamo Kazan 
  [Sergei Ilyin 2, 88, Vasiliy Smirnov 47, Alexei Ponomaryov 50, Mikhail Semichastny 74 – Pavel Bogatyryov 25]

Semifinals

[Jun 30] 
CDKA Moskva                          0-1  DINAMO Tbilisi 
  [Boris Paichadze 83] 
[Jul 13] 
DINAMO Moskva                        4-1  Lokomotiv Moskva 
  [Vasiliy Smirnov 11 pen 30, Mikhail Semichastny 35, Mikhail Yakushin 85 – Mikhail Zhukov 65]

Final

16 July 1937

Dinamo Moscow	5 – 2	Dinamo Tbilisi
Smirnov 21' (pen.) Semichastny 22', 35', 72' Ilyin 75'	[ Report]	Berdzenishvili 19' Berdzenishvili 60' (pen.)

Moscow

Notes

1. In some resources with Spartak Dnepropetrovsk played Zavod imeni Stalina Leningrad.^[2]
2. In some resources with Stalinets Kharkov played Burevestnik Leningrad.^[2]

References

1. 1937 ГОД. ЧАСТЬ ВТОРАЯ ПЕРВЫЙ КРУГ ПОЧЕТА. www.sport-express.ru. 30 January 2004
2. Чемпионат СССР 1937 года. helmsoccer.narod.ru

External links

• Complete calendar^{[permanent dead link‍]}. helmsoccer.narod.ru
• 1937 Soviet Cup. Footballfacts.ru
• 1937 Soviet football season. RSSSF