12 teams took part in the league with

FC Spartak Moscow FC Spartak Moscow (russian: Футбольный клуб «Спартак» Москва, Futbolʹnyy klub «Spartak» Moskva, ) is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow. Having won 12 Soviet championships (second only to Dyna ...

winning the championship.

League standings

Results

Top scorers

;17 goals * Vasily Buzunov (ODO Sverdlovsk) ;16 goals *

Nikita Simonyan Nikita Pavlovich Simonyan ( hy, Նիկիտա Մկրտիչ Սիմոնյան, born ''Mkrtych Pogosovich Simonyan'', 12 October 1926) is a former Soviet football striker and coach of Armenian descent. He was born in Armavir. As of 2021 he was ...

(Spartak Moscow) ;15 goals * Yuri Belyayev (CDSA Moscow) ;14 goals *

Anatoli Isayev Anatoli Konstantinovich Isayev (russian: Анатолий Константинович Исаев; 14 July 1932 – 10 July 2016) was a Soviet football player and Soviet and Russian coach. Honours * Olympic champion: 1956. * Soviet Top Lea ...

(Spartak Moscow) ;13 goals * Valentin Ivanov (Torpedo Moscow) ;12 goals *

Alakbar Mammadov Alakbar Mammadov ( az, Ələkbər Məmmədov; russian: Алекпер Мамедов; 9 May 1930 – 28 July 2014) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani footballer best known as a striker for FC Dynamo Moscow in the 1950s and later as the first manager ...

(Dynamo Moscow) *

Eduard Streltsov Eduard Anatolyevich Streltsov ( rus, Эдуа́рд Анато́льевич Стрельцо́в, p=ɨdʊˈart ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲitɕ strʲɪlʲˈtsof, a=Ru-Eduard Streltsov-yzavyalo.ogg; 21 July 1937 – 22 July 1990) was a Soviet footballer ...

(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)
{{1956–57 in European football (UEFA) Soviet Top League seasons 1

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...