1979, Soviet Top League
Day 1
3:1
Donetsk - Lokomotiv
Spectators : 23000
24.03.1979, 00:00
Goals
Starukhin (p.) 35'
Fedorenko 62'
Starukhin 69'
Kazachyonok (p.) 87'
 

Shakhtar: 1. Dehteryov - 2. Varnvskiy, 3. Zvyahintsev, 4. Simonov, 5. Pianykh - 6. Rudakov, 8. Sokolovsky, 11. Safonov (Maly L., 70) - 7. Rohovsky, 9. Starukhin, 10. Fedorenko (Maly Volodymyr, 75)

Substitution: Maly L. (from 70); Maly Volodymyr (from 75)

Zenit: 8. Kazachyonok