1976-77 Vtoraya Liga season

The 1976-77 Klass A group 2 season is the 1976-77 season of the Vtoraya Liga.

Regular season standings

Zapadnaya Zona

Standings - Zapadnaya Zona Team GP W T L PTS GF GA Diff 1 Dynamo Minsk 52 42 4 6 88 318-138 +180 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Kristall Elektrostal 52 35 6 11 76 291-164 +127 3 Stankostroytel Ryazan 52 32 8 12 72 283-166 +117 4 Metallurg Cherepovets 52 31 8 13 70 238-186 +52 5 Olimpiya Kirovo-Chepetsk 52 28 10 14 66 255-188 +67 6 Latvijas Berzs Riga 52 25 8 19 58 253-190 +63 7 Torpedo Togliatti 52 25 4 23 54 214-199 +15 8 Progress Glazov 52 26 1 25 53 223-225 -2 9 Apatitstroy Apatity 52 20 6 26 46 214-299 -85 10 Shtorm Leningrad 52 17 7 28 41 247-304 -57 11 Polet Gorki 52 13 6 33 32 199-286 -87 12 Mayak Kuybyshev 52 13 5 34 31 240-372 -132 13 Torpedo Yaroslavl 52 12 6 34 30 198-259 -61 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 14 Vimpel Zhukovsky 52 5 1 46 11 162-359 -197

Vostochnaya Zona

Standings - Vostochnaya Zona Team GP W T L PTS GF GA Diff 1 Metallurg Chelyabinsk 52 37 6 9 80 213-108 +105 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Metallurg Novokuznetsk 52 31 6 15 68 248-159 +89 3 Shakhter Prokopievsk 52 26 10 16 62 215-193 +22 4 Stroytel Temirtau 52 28 6 18 62 211-188 +23 5 Shinnik Omsk 52 28 5 19 61 223-179 +44 6 Sputnik Nizhny Tagil 52 27 5 20 59 174-155 +19 7 SKA Novosibirsk 52 24 7 21 55 215-193 +22 8 Rubin Tyumen 52 24 4 24 52 171-176 -5 9 Stroytel Karaganda 52 20 7 25 47 169-198 -29 10 Start Verzhniaya Salda 52 16 8 28 40 169-232 -63 11 Motor Barnaul 52 16 7 29 39 153-185 -32 12 Yuzhny Ural Orsk 52 16 7 29 39 155-198 -43 13 Titan Berezniki 52 16 1 35 33 152-228 -76 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 14 SKA Khabarovsk 52 12 7 33 31 124-200 -76

Final results

Dynamo Minsk and Metallurg Chelyabinsk are promoted to the Klass A group 1. Vimpel Zhukovsky and SKA Khabarovsk are relegated to the Klass B.

This season marked the renaming of Torpedo Minsk to Dynamo Minsk, thus becoming a Dynamo Moscow affiliate. Very little changes were noted, and the team still did not featured more than one Belorussian player (Anatoli Varivonchik). However, the arrival of Vitali Stain made a world of a difference and brought the team up to the Klass A group 1 in his first season as the head coach of the team.