Same as the last year the tournament was known as the Spring Challenge of the UkrSSR (Ukrainian: Весняна першість УСРР, Vesnyana prshist USRR; Russian: II весеннее первенство УССР, II vesenneye pervenstvo USSR) or the Spring championship. However soon after the start, Ukrainian mass media started to call it the Cup competition. The tournament was conducted from 24 April to 18 May 1937.