| Season | 1988 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Pamir Dushanbe |
| Promoted | Pamir Dushanbe Rotor Volgograd |
| Relegated | Zorya Voroshylovhrad Zvezda Perm Kolos Nikopol |
| Top goalscorer | (22) Mukhsin Mukhamadiyev (Pamir Dushanbe) and Aleksandr Nikitin (Rotor Volgograd) |
← 1987 1989 → | |
The 1988 Soviet First League was the 49th season of the second tier of association football in the Soviet Union.