TheBreakdown
Full time17 August 1981
USSR
26–3
Poland
Venue not recorded · Socialisticheskaya Industriya 1981Head-to-head

USSR won by 23 points.

Scoring

  1. –CUSSR conversion · Andrey Barinov
  2. –TUSSR try · Yuri Vasiliev
  3. –TUSSR try · Visarion 'Besso' Liluashvili
  4. –TUSSR try · Anatoly Sheverev
  5. –TUSSR try · Alexander Fedorov
  6. –TUSSR try · Yuri Karpukhin
  7. –TUSSR try · Yuri Karpukhin

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Line-ups

USSR

  1. 1Anatoly SheverevProp
  2. 2Alexander FedorovHooker
  3. 3Visarion 'Besso' LiluashviliProp
  4. 4Vladimir PozdniakovSecond row
  5. 5Nikolay PlotnikovSecond row
  6. 6Sergey ZhuravlevFlanker
  7. 7Alexander TikhonovFlanker
  8. 8Andrey BarinovNumber 8
  9. 9Valery KlyuchnikovScrum-half
  10. 10Oleg SljussarFly-half
  11. 11Valery ProshinWing
  12. 12Yuri KarpukhinCentre
  13. 13Yuri VasilievCentre
  14. 14Alexander BerzinWing
  15. 15Vladimir BobrovFull-back
  16. Ivan MironovBench
  17. Tahir SalavatovBench
  18. Rauf 'Roman' MalikovBench

Poland

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    Context

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

    USSR going in
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    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.