1956 Soviet Top League

12 teams took part in the league with FC Spartak Moscow winning the championship.

League standings

Results

Top scorers

17 goals

• Vasily Buzunov (ODO Sverdlovsk)

16 goals

• Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow)

15 goals

• Yuri Belyayev (CDSA Moscow)

14 goals

• Anatoli Isayev (Spartak Moscow)

13 goals

• Valentin Ivanov (Torpedo Moscow)

12 goals

• Alakbar Mammadov (Dynamo Moscow)
• Eduard Streltsov (Torpedo Moscow)

11 goals

• Avtandil Chkuaseli (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Ivan Mozer (Spartak Moscow)

9 goals

• Boris Khasaya (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Pyotr Ponomarenko (Shakhtyor Stalino)
• Viktor Sokolov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
• Vitali Vatskevich (Burevestnik Kishinyov)

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)