1976 Soviet Top League

Overview It was contested by 16 teams, and Dynamo Moscow won the championship. League standings {{#invoke:sports table|main|style=WDL Results Top scorers ;8 goals • Arkady Andreasyan (Ararat) ;7 goals • Nikolai Kazaryan (Ararat) ;6 goals • Ravil Aryapov (Krylya Sovetov) • Vladimir Danilyuk (Karpaty) • David Kipiani (Dinamo Tbilisi) • Boris Kopeikin (CSKA Moscow) • Anatoliy Shepel (Dynamo Moscow) ;5 goals • Lev Brovarsky (Karpaty) • Anatoli Degterev (Torpedo Moscow) • Sergei Grishin (Torpedo Moscow) • Sergei Malko (Dnipro) • Aleksandr Markin (Zenit) • Yuri Smirnov (Krylya Sovetov) • Pyotr Vasilevsky (Dinamo Minsk) ==Autumn==

Overview It was performed in 16 teams, and Torpedo Moscow won the championship. League standings Results Top scorers ;13 goals • Aleksandr Markin (Zenit) ;8 goals • Vladimir Danilyuk (Karpaty) • Boris Kopeikin (CSKA Moscow) ;6 goals • Mikhail Bulgakov (Spartak Moscow) ;5 goals • Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv) • Fyodor Chorba (Karpaty) • Yevgeni Khrabrostin (Torpedo Moscow) • Nazar Petrosyan (Ararat) • Aleksandr Pogorelov (Chornomorets) • Vladimir Sakharov (Torpedo Moscow) • Pyotr Yakovlev (Dnipro) • Andrei Yakubik (Dynamo Moscow) == Status of Spartak Moscow ==

After Spartak's relegation, there were some figures in the Soviet government who believed the team should be allowed to stay in the first division due to its size and history, but this idea was opposed by Leonid Brezhnev, himself a Spartak supporter, and was ultimately discarded. == Attendances ==