The winners of each zone are automatically promoted into the First Division.
The bottom finishers of each zone lose professional status and are relegated into the Amateur Football League.
Further, while North American team names normally use the plural (Chicago Bulls), Russian team names are usually singular.
The names tend to reflect the imagined profession of the team players (or rather their fans, like with Edmonton Oilers), or refer to a geographical object related to the city the team represents (usually, a river or a mountain range), or to one of the former Russian-wide sports associations (Spartak, Dynamo etc.
Below is the list of Second Division teams with their names translated: