TheBreakdown
Full time6 May 1979
USSR
9–15
Romania
Dynamo Stadium, Kharkov, Ukraine · Federation Internationale de Rugby Amateur Championship 1979Head-to-head

Romania won by 6 points.

Scoring

  1. –CUSSR conversion · Andrey Barinov2–0
  2. –PUSSR penalty · Andrey Barinov5–0
  3. –TUSSR try · Anatoly Gonyani9–0
  4. –CRomania conversion · Alexandru Dumitru9–2
  5. –CRomania conversion · Teodorin Tudose9–4
  6. –TRomania try · Cornel Scarlat9–8
  7. –TRomania try · Petre Motrescu9–12
  8. –DRomania drop goal · Alexandru Dumitru9–15

Line-ups

USSR

  1. 1Alexander EpifanovProp
  2. 2Alexander FedorovHooker
  3. 3Dmitry BabichenkoProp
  4. 4Nikolay ToropovSecond row
  5. 5Sergey ChevelevSecond row
  6. 6Sergey ZhuravlevFlanker
  7. 7Alexander AleshinFlanker
  8. 8Andrey BarinovNumber 8
  9. 9Valery KlyuchnikovScrum-half
  10. 10Oleg SljussarFly-half
  11. 11Igor MironovWing
  12. 12Tahir SalavatovCentre
  13. 13Yuri VasilievCentre
  14. 14Alexander BerzinWing
  15. 15Anatoly GonyaniFull-back
  16. Sergey OshitkovBench
  17. Alexander TikhonovBench

Romania

  1. 1Constantin DinuProp
  2. 2Mihai CorneliuHooker
  3. 3Cornel ScarlatProp
  4. 4Marin IonescuSecond row
  5. 5Ion PinteaSecond row
  6. 6Florica MurariuFlanker
  7. 7Enciu StoicaFlanker
  8. 8Gheorghe DumitruNumber 8
  9. 9Eduard SuciuScrum-half
  10. 10Alexandru DumitruFly-half
  11. 11Petre MotrescuWing
  12. 12Emil BechesCentre
  13. 13Ion ConstantinCentre
  14. 14Marian AldeaWing
  15. 15Teodorin TudoseFull-back

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Context

All-time, USSR 3–14 Romania in 17 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

USSR going in
Romania 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.