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Full time7 May 1978
USSR
64–9
Germany
Venue not recorded · Federation Internationale de Rugby Amateur Championship 1978Head-to-head

USSR won by 55 points.

Scoring

  1. –CUSSR conversion · Anatoly Gonyani
  2. –CUSSR conversion · Anatoly Gonyani
  3. –CUSSR conversion · Mihail Grazhdan
  4. –CUSSR conversion · Mihail Grazhdan
  5. –CUSSR conversion · Mihail Grazhdan
  6. –CUSSR conversion · Mihail Grazhdan
  7. –CUSSR conversion · Mihail Grazhdan
  8. –CUSSR conversion · Mihail Grazhdan
  9. –TUSSR try · Tahir Salavatov
  10. –TUSSR try · Anatoly Gonyani
  11. –TUSSR try · Anatoly Gonyani
  12. –TUSSR try · Anatoly Gonyani
  13. –TUSSR try · Alexander Aleshin
  14. –TUSSR try · Sergey Zhuravlev
  15. –TUSSR try · Vladimir Pozdniakov
  16. –TUSSR try · Vladimir Pozdniakov
  17. –TUSSR try · Boris Ivashov
  18. –TUSSR try · Yuri Karpukhin
  19. –TUSSR try · Yuri Karpukhin
  20. –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

  1. 1Anatoly SheverevProp
  2. 2Alexey BarbariushHooker
  3. 3Alexander EpifanovProp
  4. 4Sergey OshitkovSecond row
  5. 5Viktor ShapovalovSecond row
  6. 6Alexander AleshinFlanker
  7. 7Sergey ZhuravlevFlanker
  8. 8Vladimir PozdniakovNumber 8
  9. 9Boris IvashovScrum-half
  10. 10Valery ProshinFly-half
  11. 11Yuri KarpukhinWing
  12. 12Ivan MironovCentre
  13. 13Tahir SalavatovCentre
  14. 14Mihail GrazhdanWing
  15. 15Anatoly GonyaniFull-back
  16. Oleg SljussarBench

Germany

  1. 1Hans-Joachim SchmidtProp
  2. 2Jurgen MerzHooker
  3. 3Peter HellerProp
  4. 4Jurgen ZwaryczSecond row
  5. 5Heinz BalzerSecond row
  6. 6Hans-Werner BalzerFlanker
  7. 7Herbert RegenhartFlanker
  8. 8Dr. Fritz PfistererNumber 8
  9. 9Dr. Martin HuonkerScrum-half
  10. 10Manfred WundramFly-half
  11. 11Rainer KreuzarekWing
  12. 12Horst KemmlingCentre
  13. 13Roland BraunCentre
  14. 14Uve HoffmannWing
  15. 15Helmut FrickeFull-back
  16. Gregor KornBench
  17. Jurgen HowelmeyerBench

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Context

All-time, USSR 5–1 Germany in 6 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

USSR going in
Germany 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.