The 16th USSR Ice Hockey Championship was played from October 21, 1961 to April 15, 1962 . The winner was the Moscow Spartak .
Class A
| M | Team | AND | AT | N | P | W | ABOUT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Spartak Moscow | 38 | 31 | 3 | four | 193-91 | 65 | |
| Dynamo Moscow | 38 | 31 | 2 | five | 200-72 | 64 | |
| CSKA | 38 | thirty | 3 | five | 240-105 | 63 | |
| four | Lokomotiv Moscow | 38 | 27 | 3 | eight | 190-92 | 57 |
| five | Wings of the Soviets Moscow | 38 | 27 | 3 | eight | 193-99 | 57 |
| 6 | Torpedo Gorky | 38 | 26 | 3 | 9 | 184-98 | 55 |
| 7 | "Chemist" Voskresensk | 38 | 22 | five | eleven | 149-78 | 49 |
| eight | "Tractor" Chelyabinsk | 38 | 18 | five | 15 | 136-138 | 41 |
| 9 | SKA Leningrad | 38 | 17 | 6 | 15 | 123-121 | 40 |
| ten | SKA Kalinin | 38 | 13 | 7 | 18 | 110-126 | 33 |
| eleven | "Hammer" Perm | 38 | 13 | 3 | 22 | 121-145 | 29th |
| 12 | Dynamo Novosibirsk | 38 | 12 | five | 21 | 131-160 | 29th |
| 13 | Metallurg Novokuznetsk | 38 | 12 | five | 21 | 116-160 | 29th |
| 14 | Elektrostal | 38 | 12 | five | 21 | 108-165 | 29th |
| 15 | "Daugava" Riga | 38 | 12 | four | 22 | 112-163 | 28 |
| sixteen | Spartak Sverdlovsk | 38 | eleven | four | 23 | 74-133 | 26 |
| 17 | SKA Kuibyshev | 38 | 7 | 7 | 24 | 76-196 | 21 |
| 18 | Spartak Omsk | 38 | eight | 3 | 27 | 85-191 | nineteen |
| nineteen | "Kirovets" Leningrad | 38 | five | four | 29th | 89-182 | 14 |
| 20 | LIIZHT Leningrad | 38 | four | four | thirty | 85-200 | 12 |
Top scorer - Evgeny Groshev ( Wings of the Soviets Moscow ) - 38 goals.