1970 Soviet Top League

17 teams took part in the league with PFC CSKA Moscow winning the championship.

League standings

 * Note: On 5 January 1970 the city of Luhansk was officially renamed again as Voroshilovgrad, therefore Zorya Luhansk became known as Zorya Voroshilovgrad.

Championship play-off
On December 5 and 6 in Tashkent (RSSSF)


 * CSKA Moscow – Dynamo Moscow 0:0 and 4:3

Top scorers

 * 17 goals
 * Givi Nodia (Dinamo Tbilisi)


 * 15 goals
 * Boris Kopeikin (CSKA Moscow)
 * Vladimir Kozlov (Dynamo Moscow)


 * 14 goals
 * Vladimir Fedotov (CSKA Moscow)


 * 12 goals
 * Galimzyan Khusainov (Spartak Moscow)


 * 10 goals
 * Valeriy Porkujan (Chornomorets)
 * Gennadi Unanov (Zenit)


 * 9 goals
 * Yuri Avrutskiy (Dynamo Moscow)
 * Eduard Kozinkevich (Shakhtar)
 * Anatoli Vasilyev (Dinamo Minsk)