During several seasons the competitions were suspended due to football being identified as a "non-proletariat sport".

Since then and before the Great Patriotic War, the champion of Ukraine title was awarded to a team that would place first in the First Group (Persha Hrupa) of championship among sports societies and agencies.

In 1960 those competitions were suspended and republican title was awarded to the top team of Ukrainian Zone in the Class B (Soviet Second League).

In 1964 there were also established lower level republican competitions among collectives of physical culture (KFK).

Later other clubs has entered the competition: Silmash Kharkiv, Frunze Plant Kostiantynivka, Sudostroitel Mykolaiv, and Dzerzhynets Voroshylovhrad.

[2] The first tournament was conducted as part of the All-Ukrainian Dynamo Festival which was organized on the orders of the top OGPU official in Ukraine Vsevolod Balitsky.

There existed some degree of confusion due to great number of tournament at that time.

Lower Second League) was assigned specifically for most of the Soviet republics including Ukraine.

Official name of the established competition was the Class B, UkrSSR (Russian: класс «Б», УССР).

Originally reestablished soon after the World War II as the Second Group (1945-1949), the Class B football competitions succeeded it in 1950 as part of the Soviet second tier.

Note: until 1963 Class B was the second division of the Soviet football competition, analog of the First League with several zones formed by territorial principle.