1953 Soviet Top League
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11 teams took part in the league with FC Spartak Moscow winning the championship.
League standings
| Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Spartak Moscow | 20 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 47 | 15 | 29 |
| 2. | Dynamo Tbilisi | 20 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 39 | 24 | 27 |
| 3. | Torpedo Moscow | 20 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 34 | 34 | 25 |
| 4. | Dynamo Moscow | 20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 34 | 19 | 23 |
| 5. | Zenit Leningrad | 20 | 11 | 1 | 8 | 25 | 21 | 23 |
| 6. | Lokomotiv Moscow | 20 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 21 | 28 | 18 |
| 7. | Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 22 | 25 | 17 |
| 8. | Dynamo Kiev | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 21 | 26 | 17 |
| 9. | Lokomotiv Kharkov | 20 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 19 | 34 | 16 |
| 10. | Dynamo Leningrad | 20 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 20 | 33 | 14 |
| 11. | Spartak Vilnius | 20 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 33 | 11 |
P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; Pts = Points
Top scorers
- 14 goals
- Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow)
- Avtandil Gogoberidze (Dinamo Tbilisi)
- 9 goals
- Vitali Vatskevich (Torpedo Moscow)
- 8 goals
- Georgi Borzenko (Lokomotiv Kharkov)
- Pyotr Katrovsky (Zenit Leningrad)
- Boris Tatushin (Spartak Moscow)
- 7 goals
- Aleksandr Gulevsky (Zenit Kuybyshev)
- Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tbilisi)
- Mykhaylo Koman (Dynamo Kiev)
- Vladimir Savdunin (Dynamo Moscow)