Russian Premier League - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Premier_LeagueHistory. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, starting in 1992, each former Soviet republic organized an independent national championship.In Russia, the six Russian teams who had played in the Soviet Top League in 1991 (CSKA Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, Spartak Vladikavkaz, and Lokomotiv Moscow) were supplemented with 14 …