As mentioned earlier, due to the tie for last place, no club was relegated from the top tier between the two 1936 seasons.
However, the champion of the second tier was still promoted (leaving the new league with 8 teams), and that was Dinamo Tbilisi.

(This was far from the weirdest reorganization.)

In the semifinal, on August 25th, Dinamo Tbilisi - by then definitely Tbilisi - unexpectedly encountered Krasnoye Znamya Noginsk, who had surprisingly knocked out Dinamo Leningrad in the quarterfinal.

They won 5:1 (no extra time required in that game), and were ready to meet Lokomotiv in the final.

Anyway, the replay also ended 3:3 after 90 minutes, after two late goals by Vladimir Stepanov.

But this game was started earlier, so there was enough light to play the extra 30 minutes, and the Georgian visitors made full use of that opportunity.
Dinamo Tbilisi - or Tiflis? - won 3:6 in extra time.

On August 17th, 1936, a decree of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR declared that several Caucasian cities should receive more authentic names. In particular, Tiflis became Tbilisi.

The decree apparently came into force on August 20th, the day of the replay. The newspapers had to clarify.

I might as well reveal the spoiler.
In the 1/4 final, Spartak Moscow was drawn against 2nd tier champion Dinamo Tiflis, to be played on August 16th.

Unfortunately, after 90 minutes, with the score at 3:3, it was too dark for extra time.
Four days later, Spartak replayed against... it's complicated?

Between the general confusion, Chkalov's telegram in particular, and the upcoming league season (on which later), [some amount of] sanity prevailed, and the weird second cup final was ultimately cancelled.

Lokomotiv belatedly received their cup just before their next league match, eight days later.

This was extremely confusing. Among those confused was Valery Chkalov, who sent a telegram (published in newspapers) congratulating Lokomotiv for winning the cup.

If they knew what a supercup was in those days, they'd have probably made it one of those. But that concept hadn't been popularized yet.

As you might remember, Dinamo Moscow went out of the cup after a 1/32 final game where their opponents were awarded a walkover.
They were, however, promised that they would get a place in the cup anyway.

And so, on August 28th, it was announced that Lokomotiv would play Dinamo for the actual final.

- Dinamo Moscow, as we know, didn't go to Kadievka
- Dinamo Kiev skipped their game in Yegoryevsk because they were busy shooting a movie
- CDKA lost in 1/16 final to Dinamo Pyatigorsk (4th tier)
- Dinamo Leningrad lost in 1/4 final to Krasnoye Znamya Noginsk (non-league)
- Spartak lost to [spoiler]

I'm not counting the VCSPS Cup for this line, mainly because of scanty data (e.g. I have no info on whether Lokomotiv played any games there before the round where they lost, or whether, say, KhEMZ played in it at all).

I did calculate a tentative version with it, which I will post when they merge.

Lokomotiv proceeded to play two games in a separate tournament (of uncertain status), the VCSPS Cup; the first game was two days before the Soviet Cup 1/2 final, the second, a replay, on the eve of the semifinal.

Lokomotiv sent a weak team to the first game, and an even weaker team the second time.

Serp i Molot Kharkov lasted slightly longer than the team they defeated; they actually briefly played in the top tier, in 1938.

They went through a merger in 1941, but after the war they apparently continued to participate in local competitions; their last (somewhat uncertain) mention is from 1951.

Elektromashzavod Kharkov - in sources, it's usually shortened to KhEMZ - is another brief team of the late 1930s; it was renamed to Stalinets in 1937, but in 1941 the factory was evacuated in WW2, and the club did not survive.

Stakhanovets did get their Dinamo game, as a friendly on September 23rd.

As for Stakhanovets the club, it went through many names in its long history, but ended up in amateur status sometime around 1999; its most recent name is FC Stakhanov.
It apparently survived the LPR occupation, where it shows up in league listings as late as 2018.

I found a brief report from 2025.

Whether you can (in principle) find Kadievka on a map depends on whose map you're using!

It was renamed Stakhanov in 1978, after its most famous inhabitant. In 2014, it was occupied by Luhansk People's Republic.
In 2016, Ukraine - but not LPR - renamed it back to Kadiivka (with Ukrainian spelling).

Meanwhile, the inaugural unofficial champions Dinamo Leningrad ended up in a tie for last place (at 9 points) with Krasnaya Zarya.

The last-placed team was supposed to play a relegation playoff; with last place tied, this did not occur. In fact, the next season started with 8 teams (one was added).

CDKA Moscow are the team now known as CSKA Moscow (they went by another three or four names over the 1940s and '50s).
That makes six out of seven teams in the inaugural 1936 top-tier league that are, in one form or another, still around today (as mentioned, Krasnaya Zarya did not survive the 1940s).