TheBreakdown
Full time30 July 1978
USSR
18–4
Czechoslovakia
Metalist Stadium, Kharkov, Ukraine · Socialisticheskaya Industriya 1978Head-to-head

USSR won by 14 points.

Scoring

  1. –CUSSR conversion · Mihail Grazhdan
  2. –PUSSR penalty · Anatoly Gonyani
  3. –PUSSR penalty · Anatoly Gonyani
  4. –PUSSR penalty · Anatoly Gonyani
  5. –TUSSR try · Ivan Mironov
  6. –DUSSR drop goal · Valery Proshin

The scoring record for this Test does not add up to the final score, so running scores are hidden.

Line-ups

USSR

  1. 1Anatoly SheverevProp
  2. 2Alexander FedorovHooker
  3. 3Alexander EpifanovProp
  4. 4Sergey ChevelevSecond row
  5. 5Mihail JvaridzeSecond row
  6. 6Alexander AleshinFlanker
  7. 7Dmitry GarkushaFlanker
  8. 8Nikolay ToropovNumber 8
  9. 9David KilasoniaScrum-half
  10. 10Valery ProshinFly-half
  11. 11Yuri KarpukhinWing
  12. 12Ivan MironovCentre
  13. 13Tahir SalavatovCentre
  14. 14Mihail GrazhdanWing
  15. 15Anatoly GonyaniFull-back
  16. Valery KlyuchnikovBench
  17. Yuri VasilievBench

Czechoslovakia

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    Context

    All-time, USSR 4–2 Czechoslovakia in 6 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

    USSR going in
    Czechoslovakia 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.