Road to Final
The clubs of the Top League Group A as well as Group B had to start from the second round of the competition.
Lokomotiv Moscow
| Dinamo Tbilisi
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| Event | 1936 Soviet Cup | ||||||
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| Date | 28 August 1936 | ||||||
| Venue | Dynamo Stadium, Moscow | ||||||
| Referee | Nikolay Usov (Leningrad) | ||||||
| Attendance | 22,000 | ||||||
The 1936 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Dynamo Stadium, Moscow on August 28, 1936. The match was the first Soviet Cup final and it was contested by Lokomotiv Moscow and Dinamo Tbilisi. At one point the competition was decided to be the Soviet championship by the Olympic system of elimination, but later it was decided to keep the already existing championship and create a new one called the Cup of the Supreme Council of Fitness and Sport.
The clubs of the Top League Group A as well as Group B had to start from the second round of the competition.
Lokomotiv Moscow
| Dinamo Tbilisi
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| Lokomotiv Moscow | 2 – 0 | Dinamo Tbilisi |
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Sokolov  18'Lavrov 24' | Report |
         Lokomotiv Moscow |   FC Dinamo Tbilisi |
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| Soviet Cup 1936 Winners |
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| Lokomotiv Moscow First title |
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