TheBreakdown
Full time10 September 1979
USSR
30–0
Poland
Ulyanov-Lenin Stadium, Kazan, Russian Federation · Socialisticheskaya Industriya 1979Head-to-head

USSR won by 30 points.

Scoring

  1. 21’PUSSR penalty · Anatoly Gonyani3–0
  2. 39’DUSSR drop goal · Anatoly Gonyani6–0
  3. 40’TUSSR try · Vladimir Pozdniakov10–0
  4. 62’TUSSR try · Andrey Barinov14–0
  5. 63’CUSSR conversion · Anatoly Gonyani16–0
  6. 75’TUSSR try · Mihail Grazhdan20–0
  7. 79’TUSSR try · Andrey Barinov24–0
  8. 81’CUSSR conversion · Anatoly Gonyani26–0
  9. 81’TUSSR try · Anatoly Gonyani30–0

Line-ups

USSR

  1. 1Anatoly SheverevProp
  2. 2Alexander FedorovHooker
  3. 3Alexander EpifanovProp
  4. 4P KolesnikovSecond row
  5. 5Viktor ShapovalovSecond row
  6. 6Vasily KorotaevFlanker
  7. 7Vladimir PozdniakovFlanker
  8. 8Andrey BarinovNumber 8
  9. 9David KilasoniaScrum-half
  10. 10Oleg SljussarFly-half
  11. 11Yuri VasilievWing
  12. 12Tahir SalavatovCentre
  13. 13Igor MironovCentre
  14. 14Mihail GrazhdanWing
  15. 15Anatoly GonyaniFull-back
  16. V PetuhovBench
  17. Varlam 'Nukri' TsereteliBench
  18. Oleg LipartelianiBench
  19. Miheil KharshiladzeBench

Poland

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    Context

    All-time, USSR 20–1 Poland in 21 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

    USSR going in
    Poland going in

    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.