17 teams took part in the league with PFC CSKA Moscow winning the championship.
League standings
Note: On 5 January 1970 the city of Luhansk was officially renamed again as Voroshilovgrad, therefore Zorya Luhansk became known as Zorya Voroshilovgrad.История чемпионата СССР по футболу. 2-й том (1970—1991 год). www.litres.ru
Championship play-off On December 5 and 6 in Tashkent (RSSSF)
CSKA Moscow – Dynamo Moscow 0:0 and 4:3
Results
Top scorers 17 goals Givi Nodia (Dinamo Tbilisi)
15 goals Boris Kopeikin (CSKA Moscow) Vladimir Kozlov (Dynamo Moscow)
14 goals Vladimir Fedotov (CSKA Moscow)
12 goals Galimzyan Khusainov (Spartak Moscow)
10 goals Valeriy Porkujan (Chornomorets) Gennadi Unanov (Zenit)
9 goals Yuri Avrutskiy (Dynamo Moscow) Eduard Kozinkevich (Shakhtar) Anatoli Vasilyev (Dinamo Minsk)
References
Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)