Soviet Union and Russia national football teams' top scorers by year

Oleg Blokhin is the Soviet team and Soviet league all-time top scorer

Soviet Union, C.I.S and Russia national teams' top scorers by year. This includes the Olympic Games encounters, until one point.

Russia

1912 : Vasiliy Zhitarev (ZKS Moskva) & Vasiliy Butasov (SC Unitas, St-Petersburgh),  1 goal.

1913 : Vasiliy Zhitarev & Valentin Sysoev (ZKS Moskva) , 1 goal.

1914 : Vasiliy Zhitarev (ZKS Moskva), 2 goals.

Soviet Union

1924 : Mikhail Butusov (Spartak Vyborgskiy, Leningrad), 2 goals.

1925 : Mikhail Butusov (Spartak Vyborgskiy) & Fyodor Selin (MSFK Moskva), 1 goal.

1952 : Vsevolod Bobrov (VVS Moskva), 5 goals.

1954 : Sergey Salnikov (Dinamo Moskva), 3 goals.

1955 : Eduard Streltsov (Torpedo Moskva), 7 goals.

1956 : Anatoliy Ilyin (Spartak Moskva), 6 goals.

1957 : Eduard Streltsov (Torpedo Moskva), 7 goals.

1958 : Anatoliy Ilyin (Spartak ) & Valentin Ivanov (Torpedo), 3 goals.

1959 : 5 players with 1 goal scored each.

1960 : Viktor Ponedelnik (SKA Rostov), 7 goals.

1961 : Viktor Ponedelnik (SKA Rostov), 5 goals.

1962 : Aleksey Mamykin (CSKA Moskva), 7 goals.

1963 : 4 players with 1 goal scored each.

1964 : Viktor Ponedelnik (SKA Rostov), 3 goals.

1965 : Anatoliy Banishevskiy (Neftyanik, Baku),  7 goals.

1966 : Anatoliy Banishevskiy (Neftyanik) & Igor Chislenko (Dinamo Moskva), 5 goals.

1967 : Igor Chislenko (Dinamo Moskva), 10 goals.

1968 : Murtaz Khurtsilava (Dinamo Tbilissi), 3 goals.

1969 : Vitaliy Khmelnitskiy (Dynamo Kyiv), 4 goals.

1970 : Anatoliy Byshovets (Dynamo Kyiv), 7 goals.

1971 : Viktor Kolotov (Dynamo Kyiv), 5 goals.

1972 : Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv), 8 goals. Kolotov, 7.

1973 : Vladimir Onishchenko (Zarya, Voroshilovgrad), 3 goals.

1974 : David Kipiani (Dinamo Tbilissi), 1 goal. 3 matches played.

1975 : Viktor Kolotov (Dynamo Kyiv), 4 goals.

1976 : Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv) & Aleksandr Minayev (Dinamo Moskva), 4 goals. 

1977 : Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv), 4 goals. Kipiani (Tbilissi) & Buryak (Kyiv), 3.

1978 : Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv), 6 goals.

1979 : Ramaz Shengeliya (Dinamo Tbilissi), 4 goals.

1980 : Sergey Andreyev (SKA Rostov), 6 goals. Fyodor Cherenkov (Spartak), 4.

1981 : Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv), 5 goals.

1982 : Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv), Ramaz Shengeliya (Dinamo Tbilissi), Khoren Oganesyan (Ararat Yerevan) & Sergey Baltacha (Dyn. Kyiv), 2 goals.

1983 : Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv), 5 goals.

1984 : Sergey Rodionov (Spartak Moskva), 3 goals. Protasov (Dnepr), 2.

1985 : Oleh Protasov (Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk), 8 goals.

1986 : Igor Belanov (Dynamo Kyiv), 6 goals.

1987 : 4 players with 2 goals scored each. Belanov, Protasov, Zavarov & Dobrovolskiy.

1988 : Oleh Protasov (Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk), 10 goals.

1989 : Oleh Protasov (Dnepr), Igor Dobrovolskiy (Dinamo Moskva) & Hennadiy Lytovchenko (Dynamo Kyiv), 2 goalS.

1990 : 5 players with 2 goals scored each. Lytovcenko, Dobrovolskiy, Mykhaylychenko, Protasov, Cherenkov.

1991 : Igor Korneev (CSKA Moskva), 3 goals.

C.I.S.

1992 : Sergey Kiryakov (Dinamo Moskva), 4 goals.

Russia

1993 : Sergey Kiryakov (Karlsruher SC), 4 goals.

1994 : Dmitriy Radchenko (Racing Santander) & Oleg Salenko (CD Logroñes), 6 goals.

1995 : Igor Kolyvanov (Foggia) & igor Kulkov (FC Porto then Spartak Moskva), 4 goals.

1996 : Igor Kolyvanov (Foggia then Bologna), Valeriy Karpin (Real Sociedad then Valencia) & Vladimir Beschastnykh (Werder then Santander), 4 goals. Kiryakov, Kanchelskis, Nikiforov, Mostovoy and Simutenkov, 3.

1997 : Igor Simutenkov (Reggiana), 4 goals.

1998 : 11 players with 1 goal scored each.

1999 : Valeriy Karpin (Celta de Vigo), 4 goals. Beschastnykh, 5

2000 : Vladimir Beschastnykh (Racing Santander) & Maksim Buznikin (Spartak then FC Saturn), 3 goals.

2001 : Vladimir Beschastnykh (Racing Santander then Spartak Moskva), 6 goals. B. 1st April '74.

2002 : Vladimir Beschastnykh (Spartak Moskva) & Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Zenit St-Petersburg), 3 goals.

2003 : Dmitriy Bulyikin (Dinamo Moskva), 4 goals.

2004 : Dmitriy Sychov (Lokomotiv Moskva), 7 goals.

2005 : Aleksandr Kerzhakov & Andrey Arshavin (Zenit St-Petersburg), 4 goals.

2006 : Andrey Arshavin (Zenit St-Petersburg) & Pavel Pogrebnyak (FC Tom, Tomsk), 2 goals.

2007 : Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Sevilla FC), 6 goals.

2008 : Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak then Tottenham), 6 goals. Arshavin, 5. Zyryanov (Zenit), 4.

2009 : Roman Pavlyuchenko (Tottenham), 5 goals.

2010 : Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Zenit), Pavel Pogrebnyak (VfB Stutgart) & Roman Shirokov (Zenit), 2 goals.

2011 : Roman Pavlyuchenko (Tottenham), 5 goals.

2012 : Roman Shirokov (Zenit St-Petersburg), 7 goals.

2013 : Aleksandr Kokorin (Dinamo Moskva) & Aleksandr Samedov (Lokomotiv Moskva), 3 goals.

2014 : Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Zenit St-Petersburg), 5 goals.

2015 : Artyom Dzyuba (Zenit St-Petersburg), 6 goals.

2016 : Artyom Dzyuba (Zenit St-Petersburg), 3 goals.

2017 : Fyodor Smolov (FK Krasnodar), 5 goals.

2018 : Denis Cheryshev (Villareal) so far with 2 goals. Against RSA at the WC.

During the next World Cup in Russia, the responsabilty of scoring goals will heavily weight on the shoulders of Smolov from FK Krasnodar

Edit :
2018 : Denis Cheryshev (Villareal then Valencia), 6 goals. Artyom Dzyuba (Arsenal Tula then Zenit St-Petersburg), 4 goals.
2019 : Artyom Dzyuba (Zenit St-Petersburg), 9 goals.