2011–12 Russian Second Division

The 2011–12 Russian Second Division  was the third strongest division in Russian football. The Second Division is geographically divided into 5 zones. The winners of each zone are automatically promoted into the First Division. The bottom finishers of each zone lose professional status and are relegated into the Amateur Football League.

Top scorers
Source: rfspro.ru 
 * 20 goals
 * Viktor Svistunov (Petrotrest)
 * 18 goals
 * Azamat Kurachinov (Sheksna)
 * 17 goals
 * Dmitri Vakulich (Karelia)
 * 16 goals
 * Aleksei Antonnikov (Volga)
 * Fyodor Pronkov (Saturn)
 * 15 goals
 * Murat Khotov (Dnepr / Petrotrest)

Top scorers
Source: rfspro.ru 
 * 20 goals
 * Aleksandr Kutyin (Metallurg)
 * 18 goals
 * Yevgeni Polyakov (Rusichi)
 * Denis Tkachuk (Salyut)
 * 17 goals
 * Ivan Rodin (Vityaz)
 * Karen Sargsyan (Avangard)
 * 16 goals
 * Georgi Smurov (Sokol)
 * 14 goals
 * Amir Bazhev (Salyut)

Top scorers
Source: rfspro.ru 
 * 19 goals
 * Mikhail Biryukov (Astrakhan)
 * 16 goals
 * Artyom Maslevskiy (Taganrog)
 * 15 goals
 * Valeri Basiyev (Olimpia)
 * 13 goals
 * Dmitry Mezinov (MITOS)
 * Denis Pavlov (Torpedo)
 * Timirlan Shavanov (Dagdizel)
 * 11 goals
 * Magomed Guguyev (Angusht)
 * Rustam Khabekirov (Druzhba)
 * Aslanbek Konov (Kavkaztransgaz-2005)
 * Sergei Verkashanskiy (Torpedo)
 * Ruslan Zyazikov (Angusht)

Top scorers
Source: rfspro.ru 
 * 25 goals
 * Aleksandr Korotayev (Akademiya)
 * 17 goals
 * Aleksei Sapogov (Gornyak)
 * 16 goals
 * Yuri Budylin (Neftekhimik)
 * 11 goals
 * Anton Bobylev (Volga)
 * Ruslan Galiakberov (Rubin-2)
 * 10 goals
 * Aleksei Kotlyarov (Neftekhimik)
 * Oleg Makeyev (Khimik)

Top scorers
Source: rfspro.ru 
 * 18 goals
 * Sergei Vinogradov (Sakhalin)
 * 16 goals
 * Yevgeni Alkhimov (Chita)
 * Vyacheslav Kirillov (Sibiryak / Metallurg-Kuzbass)
 * 13 goals
 * Andrei Lodis (Smena)
 * Ivan Shpakov (Metallurg-Kuzbass)
 * 10 goals
 * Aleksandr Golubev (Metallurg-Kuzbass)
 * Andrei Volgin (Metallurg-Kuzbass)
 * 9 goals
 * Anton Bagayev (Irtysh)
 * Aleksandr Bulanovskiy (Yakutiya)
 * Ivan Goryunov (Dynamo)
 * Aleksei Sabanov (Sibiryak)
 * Yevgeni Shcherbakov (Chita / Irtysh)
 * Maksim Zhitnev (Sibir-2)

Team names
In the Russian sports tradition, each team has a proper name written in parentheses followed by the indication of the city it represents in brackets: "Spartak" (Moscow), rather than Moscow Spartak, as would be in the English-language tradition. In English, the parentheses and brackets are usually omitted. Further, while North American team names normally use the plural (Chicago Bulls), Russian team names are usually singular. The names tend to reflect the imagined profession of the team players (or rather their fans, like with Edmonton Oilers), or refer to a geographical object related to the city the team represents (usually, a river or a mountain range), or to one of the former Russian-wide sports associations (Spartak, Dynamo etc.), or else to the sponsoring corporation. Below is the list of Second Division teams with their names translated: