Full time1 August 1978
Metalist Stadium, Kharkov, Ukraine · Socialisticheskaya Industriya 1978Head-to-head
USSR won by 15 points.
Scoring
- 1’PUSSR penalty · Anatoly Gonyani
- 1’TUSSR try · Vladimir Pozdniakov
- 1’TUSSR try · Tahir Salavatov
- 41’CUSSR conversion · Mihail Grazhdan
- 41’TUSSR try · Anatoly Sheverev
- 51’PUSSR penalty · Mihail Grazhdan
- 58’TUSSR try · Dmitry Garkusha
- 61’TUSSR try · Yuri Karpukhin
The scoring record for this Test does not add up to the final score, so running scores are hidden.
Line-ups
USSR
- 1Anatoly SheverevProp
- 2Viktor IvanovHooker
- 3Alexander FedorovProp
- 4Sergey ChevelevSecond row
- 5Mihail JvaridzeSecond row
- 6Alexander AleshinFlanker
- 7Dmitry GarkushaFlanker
- 8Vladimir PozdniakovNumber 8
- 9Valery KlyuchnikovScrum-half
- 10Valery ProshinFly-half
- 11Yuri KarpukhinWing
- 12Ivan MironovCentre
- 13Tahir SalavatovCentre
- 14Mihail GrazhdanWing
- 15Anatoly GonyaniFull-back
- Oleg SljussarBench
- Sergey OshitkovBench
Poland
Match officials
Sample data- Referee
- Sample Referee
- Assistant referee
- Sample Assistant 1
- Assistant referee
- Sample Assistant 2
- TMO
- Sample TMO
Sample data Match officials is placeholder content: TheBreakdown has no data source for it yet, so nothing here is real.
Context
All-time, USSR 20–1 Poland in 21 scored Tests. Full head-to-head
USSR going in
Poland going in
- Previous meeting: 29 July 1977, USSR 37–3 Poland
- Next meeting on record: 13 May 1979
Also on this day
Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.