1936 Soviet Cup Final

 Dinamo Stadium

The first edition of the Soviet Cup was decided on 28.08.36 at Dinamo Stadium, Moscow. The finalists were Lokomotiv Moscow and Dinamo Tbilisi. 
Here is how they reached the final:

Trudovayar Kommuna Kungur	0	7	Lokomotiv
Dynamo Kharkiv	0	1	Lokomotiv
Lokomotiv	3	0	Spartak Leningrad
Lokomotiv	2	1	Silmash Kharkiv
Lokomotiv	5	0	Krasnaya Zaria Leningrad

Dinamo Batumi	0	2	Dinamo Tbilisi
Dinamo Tbilisi	3	2	Stroiteli Baku
Dzerzhinets Stalingrad	1	3	Dinamo Tbilisi
Spartak Moscow	3	6	Dinamo Tbilisi
Dinamo Tbilisi	5	1	Krasnoye Znamya Noginsk

Lokomotiv won the final 2-0 thanks to goals by Aleksei Sokolov (18) and

Viktor Lavrov (24).

Viktor Lavrov

Dinamo Tbilisi

Football was introduced to Georgia by the ubiquitous British sailors in the early  20th century. There are records of Tbilisi teams as early as 1912,  Sokol ,of the Tbilisi Gymnastics Society, playing fixtures against clubs from Baku. Teams emerged across Georgia in the 1910s and 1920s. The most successful of these was  Dinamo Tbilisi, who in 1936 competed in the Autumn edition of the Soviet Top League  having reached the final of the inaugural Soviet Cup.  The league at the time consisted of 6 Russian and 1 Ukrainian team along with Tbilisi. The Georgian side finished joint second.  Dinamo was founded in 1925 (a branch of the Soviet multi-sports association  having been formed in Tbilisi). The first competitive matches were played early in 1926, a series of games against opponents from Azerbaijan (at the time both Georgia and  Azerbaijan, along with Armenia, were grouped together as the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.Dinamo's first team line up was:  D.Tsomaya, A.Pochhua, N.Blankman, I.Fedorov, N.Anikin, A.Gonel, A.Pivovarov,  O.Goldobin, A.Galperin, S. Maslennikov, V.Tsomaya. 05.02.26: Dinamo (Baku) & Dinamo Tbilisi 06.01.26 Dinamo Tbilisi 0 1 Dinamo (Baku) Lenin Stadium Tbilisi 05.02.26 Dinamo (Baku) 1 1 Dinamo Tbilisi Stadium BSFK and ASPS Baku 07.02.26 Baku Squad 2 0 Dinamo Tbilisi ? 08. 02.26 Progress Baku 1 0 Dinamo Tbilisi Stadium BSFK and ASPS Baku