The Real Final

Spartak Wins the USSR Cup (1939)

Description: The 1939 USSR Cup final, played on September 12 at Dinamo Stadium under a heavy rain that left the pitch in puddles, pitted Spartak Moscow against Stalinets, the young Leningrad side raised at the Stalin Factory that had upset Dinamo Tashkent in the semifinals. The newsreel commentary observes the two sides as "members of a single and friendly family of Soviet physical culturalists," even as Spartak's forwards quickly took control: a goal at the fifth minute, an immediate Stalinets reply, and a sealing third near the close of the second half. Spartak finished as Cup champions of the Soviet Union..

1939

Aleksandr Gerasimov All-Union Agricultural Exhibition Cult of Personality Great Fergana Canal Labor Discipline The Lost Census The New Patriotism Soviet Territorial Annexations Spartak-Dinamo Tractor Drivers