1990 Soviet Second League

The Second League was restructured reducing number of zones from 9 to 3 due to withdrawals by clubs from Estonia, Georgia, Latvia (except Pardaugava Riga, a majority-Russian club) and Lithuania as they declared independence from the Soviet Union.

West

 * Representation
 * Ukrainian SSR: 11
 * Russian SFSR 4
 * Byelorussian SSR: 3
 * Armenian SSR 2
 * Latvian SSR: 1
 * Moldavian SSR 1

Center

 * Representation
 * Russian SFSR 20
 * Azerbaijan SSR 2

East

 * Representation


 * Kazakh SSR: 7
 * Uzbek SSR 7
 * Russian SFSR: 5
 * Turkmen SSR: 1
 * Kyrgyz SSR: 1
 * Tajik SSR: 1