1979 Soviet Top League
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Overview
1979 Top League was composed of 18 teams, the championship was won by Spartak Moscow.
On 11 August 1979, a mid-air collision killed virtually the entire FC Pakhtakor Tashkent team. The Top League ordered all the other teams to make three players available for a draft to restock the team, and Pakhtakor was given exemption from relegation for the next three years.
League standings
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Results
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Top scorers
- 26 goals
- Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar)
- 17 goals
- Sergey Andreyev (SKA Rostov-on-Don)
- Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)
- Khoren Hovhannisyan (Ararat)
- Valeriy Petrakov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
- 16 goals
- Yuri Chesnokov (CSKA Moscow)
- Vladimir Kazachyonok (Zenit)
- 14 goals
- Aleksandr Prokopenko (Dinamo Minsk)
- Georgi Yartsev (Spartak Moscow)
- Nikolai Vasilyev (Torpedo Moscow)
References
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