1953 Soviet Top League

11 teams took part in the league with FC Spartak Moscow winning the championship.

Top scorers

 * 14 goals
 * Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow)
 * Avtandil Gogoberidze (Dinamo Tbilisi)


 * 9 goals
 * Vitali Vatskevich (Torpedo Moscow)


 * 8 goals
 * Georgi Borzenko (Lokomotiv Kharkov)
 * Pyotr Katrovsky (Zenit Leningrad)
 * Boris Tatushin (Spartak Moscow)


 * 7 goals
 * Aleksandr Gulevsky (Zenit Kuybyshev)
 * Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tbilisi)
 * Mykhaylo Koman (Dynamo Kiev)
 * Vladimir Savdunin (Dynamo Moscow)