The 1978 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union. The winner of the competition, Dinamo Kiev qualified for the continental tournament.
Competition schedule
First round
[Mar 3, 7]
Žalgiris Vilnius 0-0 0-1 TEREK Grozny
[1. Att: 500 (in Sochi)]
[2. Anzor Chikhladze. Att: 800 (in Adler)]
[Mar 4, 8]
SKA Rostov-na-Donu 1-0 0-0 Spartak Nalchik
[1. Yuriy Bobkov 50. Att: 1,000 (in Sochi)]
[2. Att: 1,000 (in Adler)]
[Mar 4, 11]
Dinamo Minsk 0-1 1-2 SPARTAK Orjonikidze
[1. Gennadiy Kravchenko 49 pen. (in Sochi)]
[2. Viktor Yanushevskiy 76 – Nugzar Chitauri 40, Igor Zazroyev 56. Att: 500 (in Sukhumi)]
KRYLYA SOVETOV Kuibyshev 1-0 0-0 Yangiyer
[1. Vladimir Kuznetsov. Att: 4,000 (in Samarkand)]
[2. Att: 7,500]
Kuban Krasnodar 0-1 0-1 SHINNIK Yaroslavl
[1. Leonid Zyuzin. (in Adler)]
[2. Yuriy Panteleyev (in Sochi)]
Kuzbass Kemerovo 0-0 0-1 SKA Odessa
[1. Att: 8,000 (in Sukhumi)]
[2. Vladimir Maly 25. Att: 14,000]
Metallurg Zaporozhye 0-1 0-0 KOLOS Nikopol
[1. Viktor Bulba. Att: 7,000]
[2. Att: 10,000]
SHIRAK Leninakan 1-0 2-2 Kolhozchi Ashkhabad
[1. Andranik Adamyan. Att: 15,000 (in Yerevan)]
[2. Andranik Adamyan, Albert Akimyan – Anatoliy Bogdanov, Viktor Grachov. Att: 3,000]
SKA Khabarovsk 0-0 0-2 NISTRU Kishinev
[1. Att: 3,500 (in Drokia)]
[2. Valeriy Pavlov, Gennadiy Ryutin (S) og. Att: 5,500]
SPARTAK Ivano-Frankovsk 4-1 1-1 Alga Frunze
[1. Nikolai Pristai, Yuriy Podpalyuk, Igor Dyriv, Yaroslav Kikot pen – Alexandr Kantsurov. Att: 9,000]
[2. Vladimir Mukomelov – Alexandr Kantsurov. Att: 10,000 (in Osh)]
Tavria Simferopol 1-1 1-2 SKA Kiev [aet]
[1. Yuriy Ajem 58 pen – Anatoliy Kudya 38. Att: 18,000]
[2. Andrei Cheremisin 27 – Viktor Nastashevskiy 43, Yuriy Smirnov 102. Att: 3,000 (in Uzhgorod)]
Torpedo Kutaisi 2-0 0-2 URALMASH Sverdlovsk [pen 3-5]
[1. Revaz Burkadze-2. Att: 15,000]
[2. Nikolai Aboburko, Vladimir Kalashnikov. Att: 500 (in Fergana)]
[Mar 4, 14]
Daugava Riga 1-3 1-1 PAMIR Dushanbe
[1. Yuriy Sidorenko – Valeriy Tursunov, Edgar Gess, Alexandr Tarbayev. Att: 2,500 (in Sevastopol)]
[2. Mikhail Smorodin – Valeriy Tursunov. Att: 6,000]
[Mar 5, 11]
Spartak Semipalatinsk 0-0 1-2 SPARTAK Ryazan
[1. Att: 50 (in Tashkent Region)]
[2. Andrei Pinchukov – Anatoliy Andreyev, Alexandr Korobkov. Att: 100 (in Tashkent Region)]
[Mar 5, 12]
FAKEL Voronezh 0-0 1-1 Iskra Smolensk
[1. Att: 1,500 (in Sochi)]
[2. Viktor Proskurin 85 – Vyacheslav Murashkintsev 37. Att: 3,000 (in Sevastopol)]
[Mar 10, 14]
Dinamo Leningrad 0-1 0-3 KARPATY Lvov
[1. Vladimir Danilyuk. Att: 2,000]
[2. Fyodor Chorba, Stepan Yurchishin, Vladimir Danilyuk. Att: 15,000]
Second round
[Mar 16, Apr 1]
TORPEDO Moskva 0-0 1-0 UralMash Sverdlovsk
[1. (in Adler)]
[2. Vladimir Yurin 72. Att: 7,000 (in Fergana)]
[Mar 18, 24]
ARARAT Yerevan 5-0 0-1 Spartak Orjonikidze
[1. Robert Khalaijan 5, 41, Armen Azaryan 6, Andranik Khachatryan 55, Edik Arutyunyan 69]
[2. Givi Kerashvili 65. Att: 18,000]
KAYRAT Alma-Ata 0-0 1-1 Fakel Voronezh
[1. Att: 15,000 (in Chimkent)]
[2. Alexandr A.Vasin 80 – Anatoliy Ionkin 26. Att: 1,000 (in Sochi)]
Kolos Nikopol 1-1 1-2 DINAMO Tbilisi
[1. Pyotr Naida 36 pen – David Kipiani 32. Att: 20,000]
[2. Valentin Prilepskiy 47 – Alexandr Chivadze 64, 86]
Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 1-2 0-2 SHAKHTYOR Donetsk
[1. Nikolai Pavlov 36 – Nikolai Latysh 70 pen, Vitaliy Starukhin 76. (in Sochi)]
[2. Vladimir Rogovskiy 14, Nikolai Latysh 49. Att: 15,000]
LOKOMOTIV Moskva 3-0 1-0 Terek Grozny
[1. Valeriy Petrakov 36, Grigoriy Sapozhnikov 72, Vladimir Shevchuk 74. (in Sochi)]
[2. Valeriy Gazzayev 73]
NEFTCHI Baku 1-0 1-0 Shinnik Yaroslavl
[1. Anatoliy Banishevskiy 73]
[2. Asif Aliyev 24. (in Adler)]
ZARYA Voroshilovgrad 0-0 2-0 Shirak Leninakan
[2. Alexandr Polukarov 8, Yuriy Rabochiy 67. Att: 13,000]
ZENIT Leningrad 1-1 1-0 Karpaty Lvov
[1. Vladimir Klementyev 16 – Grigoriy Batich 69. Att: 2,000]
[2. Andrei Redkous 57. Att: 32,000]
[Mar 18, 25]
CHERNOMORETS Odessa 2-0 0-2 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [pen 4-3]
[1. Teimuraz Esebua 5, Vyacheslav Leshchuk 75]
[2. Valeriy Berezin 3, Vladimir Goncharov 44. Att: 8,000]
Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk 1-1 1-2 SKA Odessa
[1. Nikolai Samoilenko 87 – Vladimir Maly 49]
[2. Vladimir Troshkin 80 – Igor Ivanenko 8, Leonid Maly 64 pen. Att: 18,000]
Nistru Kishinev 0-1 0-2 SPARTAK Moskva
[1. Valeriy Gladilin 48. Att: 20,000]
[2. Vadim Pavlenko 28, Yuriy Gavrilov 29. Att: 3,000 (in Sochi)]
[Mar 18, 26]
CSKA Moskva 1-1 2-0 Spartak Ivano-Frankovsk
[1. Leonid Nikolayenko 54 – Igor Dyriv 58. (in Sukhumi)]
[2. Alexandr Pogorelov 11, Alexandr Kolpovskiy 72. Att: 11,000]
[Mar 18, Apr 3]
Pamir Dushanbe 0-2 0-0 DINAMO Moskva
[1. Andrei Yakubik 39, Alexandr Maksimenkov 68. Att: 15,000]
[2. Att: 15,000 (in Sochi)]
[Mar 19, 24]
Spartak Ryazan 0-3 1-3 DINAMO Kiev
[1. Oleg Blokhin 24, Vladimir Onishchenko 49, Leonid Buryak 57. Att: 2,500 (in Sochi)]
[2. Anatoliy Andreyev 30 – Alexandr Hapsalis 10, Yuriy Tsymbalyuk 34, Alexandr Boiko 89. Att: 5,000 (in Simferopol)]
[Mar 27, 30]
PAHTAKOR Tashkent 2-0 3-2 SKA Kiev [both legs in Tashkent]
[1. Vladimir Fyodorov 27, Konstantin Bakanov 83. Att: 22,000]
[2. Viktor Churkin 22, Konstantin Bakanov 42, Vladimir Makarov 89 pen – Mikhail Palamarchuk 7, Vladimir Nastashevskiy 71. Att: 14,000]
Third round
[Apr 1, 16]
Chernomorets Odessa 2-1 0-4 DINAMO Kiev
[1. Teimuraz Esebua 20, Vladimir Ploskina 65 – Viktor Kolotov 75. Att: 15,000]
[2. Leonid Buryak 4, 68 pen, Oleg Blokhin 42, Mikhail Fomenko 90. Att: 30,000]
Kayrat Alma-Ata 1-1 0-0 ZENIT Leningrad
[1. Vladimir Nikitenko 71 – Anatoliy Davydov 33. Att: 19,000]
[2. Att: 2,000]
NEFTCHI Baku 4-0 0-3 SKA Odessa
[1. Anatoliy Banishevskiy 70, 73, Nikolai Smolnikov 89, Elbrus Abbasov 90. Att: 15,000]
[2. Leonid Maly 35, Vladimir Maly 43, 57. Att: 14,000]
SHAKHTYOR Donetsk 3-0 2-0 Ararat Yerevan
[1. Vitaliy Starukhin 8, Valeriy Yaremchenko 39, Vladimir Safonov 80. Att: 40,000]
[2. Mikhail Sokolovskiy 72, Yuriy Reznik 77. Att: 6,000]
Spartak Moskva 0-0 0-1 LOKOMOTIV Moskva
[1. Att: 3,500 (in Sochi)]
[2. Valeriy Gazzayev 64. Att: 28,000]
[Apr 2, 16]
DINAMO Tbilisi 1-0 1-0 Pahtakor Tashkent
[1. Revaz Chelebadze 62. Att: 50,000]
[2. Ramaz Shengelia 24. Att: 20,000]
[Apr 16, 19]
DINAMO Moskva 2-1 1-1 CSKA Moskva [both legs in Podolsk]
[1. Alexandr Makhovikov 2, Zurab Tsereteli 7 – Yuriy Chesnokov 62. Att: 18,000]
[2. Mikhail Gershkovich 7 – Yuriy Chesnokov 12 pen. Att: 20,000]
[Apr 16, May 12]
Zarya Voroshilovgrad 0-0 1-3 TORPEDO Moskva
[1. Att: 13,000]
[2. Anatoliy Olenev 51 – Yevgeniy Khrabrostin 17, Yuriy Vanyushkin 43 pen, Sergei Petrenko 57. Att: 6,000]
Quarterfinals
[Jun 6, 21]
LOKOMOTIV Moskva 1-0 2-2 Dinamo Tbilisi
[1. Valeriy Gazzayev 45. Att: 7,000]
[2. Vladimir Shevchuk 74, Valeriy Gazzayev 84 – Vladimir Gutsayev 5, Vakhtang Koridze 72. Att: 25,000]
[Jun 7, 21]
DINAMO Kiev 3-2 0-0 Zenit Leningrad
[1. Alexandr Berezhnoi 10, Leonid Buryak 31, Vladimir Onishchenko 52 – Yuriy Timofeyev 67, 73. Att: 15,000]
[2. Att: 20,000]
Dinamo Moskva 2-1 0-1 TORPEDO Moskva
[1. Oleg Dolmatov 7, Nikolai Kolesov 63 – Sergei Grishin 71. Att: 15,000]
[2. Yevgeniy Khrabrostin 27. Att: 10,000]
SHAKHTYOR Donetsk 1-1 2-0 Neftchi Baku
[1. Vitaliy Starukhin 26 – Asif Aliyev 19. Att: 25,000]
[2. Vladimir Pyanykh 9, Yuriy Reznik 90. Att: 5,500]
Semifinals
[Jul 4, 18]
Lokomotiv Moskva 0-2 0-1 SHAKHTYOR Donetsk
[1. Mikhail Sokolovskiy 74, Nikolai Latysh 75. Att: 7,000]
[2. Yuriy Dudinskiy 10. Att: 39,000]
[Jul 5, 19]
Torpedo Moskva 1-2 1-2 DINAMO Kiev
[1. Yevgeniy Khrabrostin 31 – Vladimir Bessonov 9, 52. Att: 22,000]
[2. Nikolai Vasilyev 4 – Alexandr Berezhnoi 15, Vladimir Onishchenko 66. Att: 10,000]
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