[1] The idea of new competition was announced on 21 March 1936 in the Russian newspaper "Krasnyi Sport" (Moscow) No.
[2] Note that "Krasnyi Sport" was the official publication of the All-Union Council (later Committee) of Physical Culture of the Soviet Union.
The decision was adopted as beneficial by the March 27 session of the presidium of the All-Union Council of Physical Culture.
The first part (considered spring) started in late May and finished by mid of July with a single match played by each participant against each other (round-robin format).
Between first and second halves it was decided to conduct separate competition in elimination format which became the Soviet Cup.
About the use of goal ratio as a tiebreaker is also mentioned in the "Chronicles of Aksel Vartanian" that referenced to another Soviet journalist and sports researcher of football Aleksandr Perel.
[3] According to Vartanian in his own opinion, the goal ratio as a tiebreaker may have not been the case as previously thought and possibly the reason why the promotion-relegation play-off was canceled.
(league appearances and goals listed in brackets) Goalkeepers: Aleksandr Kvasnikov (5 / -2), Yevgeny Fokin (2 / -3).
Midfielders: Yevgeny Yeliseyev (6), Aleksandr Ryomin (6), Aleksey Lapshin (5), Pavel Korotkov (4), Viktor Dubinin (1).
One own goal scored by Ivan Andreyev (FC Lokomotiv Moscow) Manager: Konstantin Kvashnin.
Midfielders: Volodymyr Greber (6 / 2), Ivan Kuzmenko (6 / 2), Iosif Livshyts (2), Oleksiy Klymenko (1), Mykhaylo Pustinin (1).
This tournament was exact replica of the spring championship by the format of the competition, including the nomination of points.
It opened with two games in Leningrad and Moscow on September 5, 1936, soon after the Soviet Cup final that took place just week prior to that on August 28.
(league appearances and goals listed in brackets) Goalkeepers: Anatoly Akimov (6 / -6), Ivan Ryzhov (2 / -4).
Forwards: Georgy Glazkov (7 / 7), Vladimir Stepanov [ru] (7 / 6), Boris Shchibrov (7 / 2), Valentin Liventsev (4 / 1), Stepan Kustylkin (4), Leonid Rumyantsev (4), Pyotr Nikiforov (3 / 1), Aleksey Yeryomin (1), Nikolay Zhigalin, Boris Stepanov.
Midfielders: Yevgeny Yeliseyev (7 / 2), Aleksey Lapshin (7), Aleksandr Ryomin (7), Pavel Korotkov (5), Gavriil Kachalin (2), Arkady Chernyshev (1).