Now - after many decades after the blockade of the city on the Neva, the German fascist invaders - it is impossible to accurately remember who first remembered football, but with complete confidence it is possible to say that the love of this amazing sports spectacle in that harsh time did not die Looking for hunger, cold and widespread presence of death. To understand how it was, let's remember ... why it all started ...
Spring 1942. Fascists are unceremoniously shop in the USSR. Red army with varying success leads fierce fights against them. Leningraders have already survived the first - perhaps the most complex blockade winter. In April 1942, the Germans produce a leaflet on which black in white is written: " Leningrad is the city of the Dead!"And scatter it at the deposited city. In response to this, the Military Council of the Leningrad Front in order to raise the spirit of fighters and ordinary citizens makes the decision to hold the first football blockage match.
Almost immediately after the events described, the shelling and bombing of Leningrad are enhanced. New artillery batteries are tightened to the city - the enemy covers the blocks of the shells from a distance of 13-28 kilometers. According to available information, the state of the Dynamo stadium at that time was disappointing - one of the two football fields was literally repaired by enemy shells, the other was given under the gardens. Alternatively decided to use a spare field on the Cross Island. On May 6, 1942, the Leningrad Dynamo and held his first football match against the military unit of the Baltic fleet of Major A. Lobanova in the history of Leningrad in the history of Leningrad. ON. for a long time considered the official blockade match. This is confirmed by the fact that in Leningrad calendars and reference books up to the mid-80s of the 20th century, it was he who was mentioned under the name of the blockade. However, the names of players of opposing teams due to a number of reasons no one has mentioned anywhere. Let's fill this gap and pay due memory to the heroes!
The composition of Dynamo:
- V. Nabutov;
- Mr. Movies;
- B. Oreshkin;
- P. Sychev;
- D. Fedorov;
- Shaft. Fedorov;
- K. Sazonov,
- A. I. Fedorov;
- A. Alov;
- A. Victor;
- E. Arkhangelsky;
In some sources, it is argued that the initiator of the blockade match "Dynamo" was the captain of the NKVD Viktor Bullov, who carried out the task of the headquarters of the Leningrad Front, coordinated with the party leadership of Leningrad. According to the memoirs of the Beschkov itself, the team also entered Georgy Shorets. List of Baltic sailors who played against the Dynamo team, unfortunately, not complete. But it is known for certain that from the crew of Major A. Lobanov was the Baltlottsy:
- Vladimir Anushin;
- Vladimir Brechko;
The meeting was judged by the famous arbitrator N. Usov. The game consisted of 2 hours for 30 minutes each. The match ended the victory "Dynamo", the score - 7: 3.
But the most famous match - and there were several of them in the history of Blood Leningrad! - He became the one in which Dynamo opposed the "team of the N-Plant" (as because of the preservation of the regime of the strictest secrecy during the time of the Great Patriotic War, LMZ was called LMINing metallic factory).
The team, opposing Dynamo entered Zenit players, Spartak and other urban teams. The match was scheduled for May 31, 1942. The location of Dynamo on the Cross Island was chosen by the place of holding. The judge was appointed Pavel Pavlov - with his consent of the Times prolonged up to 30 minutes. Even before the match with the composition of the "N-Plant" team, certain difficulties arose. First of all, they were associated with the fact that some factory workers could not reach the field for the simple reason that were exhausted from hunger. They also lacked goalkeeper. Therefore, the defender Ivan Kurenkov got up instead. But this turned out to be not enough - until more than one football player was absent. The output was offered Dynamo. They gave way to the factory workers of their player Ivan Smirnov. But one way or another, the fascists precipitated Leningrad, the game still took place. Otherwise, it could not be, because of the inhabitants of the city on the Neva at that time, as they say in a famous proverb: "It was possible to do nails!"
After the start of the match, the art crew began. One of the shells hit the corner gaming field. Footballers and viewers went into bomb shelter, and after the end of the shelling, the athletes continued to play. It is noteworthy that the match radio broadcast was carried out simultaneously in two languages \u200b\u200b- Russian and German. The result is a friendly meeting - account 6: 0 in favor of Dynamo.
The Dynamo team includes the following players:
- Victor Nabutov;
- Mikhail Syushin;
- Valentin Fedorov;
- Arkady Alov;
- Konstantin Sazonov;
- Victor Ivanov;
- Boris Oreshkin;
- Evgeny Ulitin;
- Alexander Fedorov;
- Anatoly Victors;
- George Mozdayra;
For the "team of the N-Plant" played:
- Ivan Kurenkov (Spartak);
- Alexander Fesenko;
- George Medvedev (Zenit);
- Anatoly Mishuk (Zenit);
- Alexander Zyablikov (Zenit);
- Alexey Lebedev (Zenit);
- Nikolai Gorelkin (hockey player);
- Nikolai Smirnov ("Zenit");
- Ivan Smirnov (Dynamo);
- Peter Gorbachev (Spartak);
- V. Losev;
2 goals were scored by A. Alov and K. Sazonov. According to the memories of eyewitnesses, players left the football field, hugging - players simply supported each other in order not to fall from exhaustion. The success of "Dynamo" was happy - and the Dynamo themselves, and their opponents from the "Command of the N-Plant, because it was impossible to divide it. She was one at all in the desire to survive, despite everything, and live after June 2, a note about this was printed in the Leningrad Pravda newspaper, June 3 - in the newspaper "Change".
June 7, 1942 was re-playing between the same teams. She was again entrusted to judge Nikolay Usov. The "team of the N-Factory" this time was able to give a fight "Dynamo" and bring the match in a tissue with a score of 2: 2.
For Dynamo played:
- Gavrilin;
- Syushin;
- Titov;
- Oreshkin;
- Shaft. Fedorov;
- Movies;
- Sazon;
- Al. Fedorov;
- Alov;
- Victors;
- Ivanov;
"Command of the N-Plant" represented:
- V.G. Ponuguev;
- Mr. Medvedev;
- Fesenko;
- Chaffits;
- Lebedev;
- Kurenkov;
- Gorelkin;
- I. Smirnov;
- Abramov;
- N. Smirnov;
- Conn;
The memory of the blockade match:
- 1991 - a memorial plaque at Dynamo Stadium was opened;
- 2012 - the monument at Dynamo Stadium is open;
- 2012 - Street exhibition "Memory of a Blockade Match";
- 2015 - at Dynamo Stadium held a tournament among amateur teams "Memory Cup";
Such friendly meetings subsequently became almost traditional. The art robes and bombing sometimes interrupted them, but they forever for us and subsequent generations remained a symbol of persistence and courage, both athletes, so fans and ordinary Leningradians who managed to survive the blockade of the city on the Neva.
The city lived. The past winter 41-42 yd brought inconceivable tests. And not yet visible the end of difficult days. But people wanted to not hoped for the fact that they ...
The city lived. The past winter 41-42 yd brought inconceivable tests. And not yet visible the end of difficult days. But people wanted to have fascists not hoped for the fact that they managed to break the spirit of the warring people.
April 42 years. The Germans are thrown from aircraft a pack of leaflets, where it is argued that Leningrad is the city of the dead. They do not enter it their concern of the body epidemic. Leningraders did not believe written.
The leadership of the besieged city decides to hold a football match at Dynamo Stadium. The field is broken with projectiles, the spare field was used as a vegetable garden.
Training before the match.
But I found a spare platform. On the field, collecting forces, the teams "Dynamo" and LMZ came out. She was called for the purpose of conspiracy, the "team of the N-Plant". The stands were filled with recovery from the hospital nearby and free from classes cadets of the Military School.
Dynamo footballers recalled from the trenches. Many of them were on the fronts. They arrived in their native city. The members of the LMZ team to collect turned out to be more difficult. Exhausted factory staff had to be able to play, and not fall on the field.
They went to the match, as always came out in peacetime. Purely shaved, dressed dressed. They walked to the parade. Football traditions athletes have not forgotten. That's just running football players could not from exhaustion.
In order to somehow balance the forces of opponents, one of Dynamo, Ivan Smirnov, stood in the ranks of the LMZ team. Footballers of other teams were also played in the LMZ team.
"Match of Life" in Blocade Leningrad
Two half thirty minutes. Athletes slowly rolled the ball. If the front-line was still fed, the athletes of the LMZ team were exhausted by a hungry life.
One of the players of the LMZ team - Anatoly Mishuk - Before the war, the "Zenith" football player was unable to take the ball head, falling on the grass. He did not recover even after the hospital, discharged with a diagnosis of "acute dystrophy". Between the temperatures on the grass did not sit down. Could not climb again.
The match was won by Dynamo football players. Players left the field tightly supporting each other. Stronger dragged very weakened players. The city lived, contrary to the news of death.
The goalkeeper of the Dynamo team, the commander of the armored personnel, Viktor Nabutov (in the future - the famous Soviet Sports Commentator, the father of Journalist Kirill Navitova)
For all fronts of the next day, powerful loudspeakers broadcast a football match from Leningrad. Fighters with surprise listened to the commentator, about what the ball flew to, and who carelessly kicked whom, violating the rules.
The fighters fled to communication, but they confirmed them there: there is indeed a football match in Leningrad. There was no such lift to experience such ascents for a long time. The city, for whom they died in the trenches, lived.
After this moment, a hand-to-hand fight, they would destroy the enemy. The deposited Leningrad wanted to survive. And survived. In the German trenches whispered - the dead city plays football. They cannot be defeated.
After many years, a memorial plaque was opened, where the names of all participants in the historical match between Dynamo and LMZ are inscribed. Opened a memorable board of the match of the match Evgeny Ulitin.
Dynamo
- A. Alov
- M. Southin
- A. Viktorov
- B. Oreshkin
- Mr. Mozdayra
- D. Fedorov
- V. Ivanov
- K. Sazonov
- E. Ulitin
- V. Fedorov
- V. Nabutov
LMZ
- P. Gorbachev
- N. Gorelkin
- A. Zyablov
- A. Lebedev
- V. Losev
- M. Medvedev
- I. Kurenkov
- A. Mishuk.
- A. Fesenko
- I. Smirnov
- A. Smirnov
... already suffer from our
Neither measures nor name nor comparable.
But we are at the end of the Territory
And know - the day of liberation is close.
These lines belong to the Soviet poetess Olga Berggolts.which during the Great Patriotic War remained in blocade Leningrad.
The day of liberation has come a few years after this poem has been written. Exactly 73 years ago, Leningrad was finally released from the blockade.
Nadezhda and football
... went to the 1942th. Leningraders survived the first blockade winter, which was pretty harsh: it happened that the temperature fell to minus 32,
and heating in the house was not received, the sewage and water supply were not worked. Even in April, the covers of snow in some places were reached 52 centimeters, and the air remained cold until mid-May.
But in the hearts of people, despite the hunger, the cold and tearing around the shells was what helped them live further - hope. Hope for the fact that the city will be. No matter what. This light in the soul they tried to maintain various ways: someone wrote poems and poems, someone composed music. And there were those who played football.
Surprisingly, as in the conditions of a blockade city, someone occurred to the idea to hold a football match, but on May 6, 1942, the Lengorispolk decided to: Game - to be!
Club archive. 1942 year. Blocade Match
Collect the players turned out to be not easy: many of the football players fought, and those who worked in the city were so exhausted that they would hardly run several tens of meters. Some of the miracle of the team still scored: the goalkeeper was called from the Nevsky Piglet Viktor Nabutov, from the Karelian Isthmus - Dmitry Fedorov, were revoked and Boris Oreshkin, Mikhail Syushin, Valentin Fedorov, George Mozdayra, And other blocked football players. Dynamo resembled the team that was before the war, but the team of the metal plant, against which they played, consisted of those who at least somehow knew how to play and was able to run around the field.
It was originally assumed that the match would be held at Dynamo Stadium, but the main field was so mutilated with incoming shells that the game was transferred to the backup field next door. Everything was like in the ordinary match of the championship: teams and form got, the judge was invited (the arbitrator of the All-Union category P.P. Pavlov worked on the game), even the fans were found.
It was hard to play. It is clear that on modern football it was absolutely no similar: most players were exhausted, so they often spinled their head and dyspnea appeared. In the break between half-hour hats, none of them on the grass sat down - otherwise it would be climbing it.
The Germans, having heard the broadcast of the game, decided to disrupt the match, so at the beginning of the second half the area of \u200b\u200bthe stadium was fired, and one of the shells fell into the corner of the field. All players and spectators immediately went to the bomb shelter, but after the art film, the match resumed and Vitoga ended with Dynamo's victory with a score of 6: 0. Football players left the field hugging.
After this game, a few more matches of the same teams took place in the blockaded city - June 30 and July 7, 1942.
The city, which the Germans considered dead, was alive.
impossible to forget
In 1991, a memorial plate was installed on one of the walls of the stadium: "Here, at Dynamo Stadium, in the most demanding blocks of the blockade on May 31, 1942, the Leningrad Dynamo held a historical blockade match with a metal plant team."
The last participant of those matches, Evgeny Ulitin, died in 2002.
Blocade Match.
On May 31, in St. Petersburg, the 70th anniversary of the incredible event is celebrated, forever entered the story. According to the official version, on May 31, 1942, in the midst of the blockade, a football match was held in Leningrad, in which players of the local Dynamo met with the team of the Leningrad Metal Plant.
Text Igor Borunov
This story in one or another in St. Petersburg knows almost everything. Having survived the scary winter of 1941-1942, Blocadeal Leningrad just started to recover. He earned the road of life, besides, up to 200 cars with food ... It was very important to support the faith of Leningrads in the fact that everything will end well. And someone came out there at the top. The idea came: in a blockade city there must be in spikes to play football. And played - at Dynamo Stadium, which is on the Cross Island.
There are still no controversy about what kind of match it is to be considered the first blockade. Versions are different. It is widely known that the real blockade match took place on May 6th. Footballers of the Leningrad Dynamo, they say, met with the team of the Baltic Fleet crew and won with a score of 7: 3. It was possible that, especially since the direct participants in the events insisted on this, in particular the goalkeeper, and later the commentator Viktor Nabutov. But much more testimonies, allowing to consider the first official match the game on May 31 between the Dynamo and the national team, which represented the Leningrad Metal Plant named after Stalin (LMZ), which included football players of Leningrad Clubs "Zenit" and "Spartak", as well as several workers. For wartime reasons, the name of the opponent's opponent's white-blue sounded as "team of the N-Plant".
The meeting was completed by a convincing victory better than the Dynamo ready for her - 6: 0, but after a week in the re-game, the N-Sky plant almost took revenge, having achieved a draw - 2: 2. After these matches sport competitions In the besieged city they became almost regular.
WHO PLAYED
Dynamo - "N-Sky Plant" - 6: 0
"Dynamo": Viktor Nabutov, Mikhail Syushin, Valentin Fedorov, Arkady Alov, Konstantin Sazonov, Victor Ivanov, Boris Oreshkin, Evgeny Ulitin, Alexander Fedorov, Anatoly Viktorov, Georgy Mozdayra.
"N-Sky Plant": Ivan Kurenkov, Alexander Fesenko, Georgy Medvedev, Anatoly Mishuk, Alexander Zyablikov, Alexey Lebedev, Nikolai Gorelkin, Nikolai Smirnov, Ivan Smirnov, Peter Gorbachev, V. Losev.
Judge Pavel Pavlov.
Honored coach of the USSR German Semenovich Zonin arrived in Leningrad from Kazan in 1949. On the Volga, he visited matches with the participation of Dynamo footballers and Zenit escaped from Leningrad.
- Team "Dynamo" was a visiting card of the city. They all knew and loved. Good guys were good. Friendly team. Her soul was Valentin Fedorov, who played "Dynamo" with Brother Dmitry. Almost the whole team "Zenit" was in evacuation, and from among Dynamo to Kazan, only a few people left. They worked there at the factory, and on Saturdays played football. The people on the matches were a bit! Showed cool football. I will never forget as a Pek Dementiev (at that time the "Zenit" football player. - Rest.) At the request of the public began to make his fints. It was simply impossible to select the ball without a foul, "Zonin recalls.
Zonin became acquainted with the participants of the blockade matches, Zonain was already in Leningrad, when he began to play for Dynamo.
- We met with Goalkeeper Viktor Nabutov at Dynamo Stadium. Nabutov returned after the disease, and I trained it every day. With Arkady Allov was in good relationship, but when I came, he was not playing not in Dynamo, but in Zenit. In Dynamo, I played together with Anatoly Victorov. Then he left - Vsevolod Bobrov took to himself, and Victors became champion three times Soviet Union Hockey in the Air Force. I remember Sazonov's costume - a handsome guy! He played an extreme attacker. Before the matches, he always did a circle around the square. Girls run behind him! And then returned to the stadium, "says Zonin.
I ask German Semenovich to talk about the prehistory of the blockade match.
- Dynamo War found in Tbilisi. They returned to Leningrad and all as one signed up in the ranks of the Red Army. Since they represented the Society "Dynamo", many worked in the police and the NKVD - neutralized spies that showed the Germans where to bomb. There was such a young player - Fyodor Sychev, the central defender. In the autumn of 1941, he was on duty. Bombing began. Seeing an elderly woman who passed the road, Fyodor decided to help her go to refuge. At the time of breaking the projectile, he covered it with his body. She remained alive, and he died, - sighs the veteran of domestic football.
In addition to Sychev, severe wartime did not spare a few more players of the team. Under different circumstances, Nikolaev, Shapkovsky and Kuzminsky died.
- Valentin Fedorov was a good organizer. He and Alov entrusted to collect players. Caused in the Golong Party. Why caused? The propaganda of Goebbels touched on the whole world that the city of Lenin is the city of the dead, the inhabitants are already starting to engage in cannibalism. Then the hill decided to hold a football match. Fedorov and Allah gave a task to collect football players. Trade unions collected another team. Of course, people were thin and hungry, but they came out to play, "Zonin continues.
"Consider the game combat task"
Unfortunately, no one lived from the immediate participants of those events to this day. The last - Dynamo striker Evgeny Ulutin - left life in 2002. It was he who was captured on the only preserved reliable picture of a blockade match made by TASS Vasyutin's photoconductor. Let us turn to the blockade memories of the organizers of the game published in the newspapers in 1970-1980.
Valentin Fedorov, Dynamo midfielder:
- Once, Arkady Alova was summoned to the military department of the Party City Mountain. The head asked who from the football players remained in the city, whose addresses or services of the service we know. Seeing our bewilderment, he explained: "The FRONT Military Council decided to spend a football match in the blocked city and gives this game great importance. Consider her with its most important combat task. " The task was difficult. Dynamo teams then did not actually exist. Six football players were in Kazan, four died, one hard was injured and evacuated. But the recruitment was not the most difficult. How to play when the strength lacked even on walking? However, players were gathered gradually, and we started training. Trained twice a week.
Alexander Zyablikov, midfielder and captain of the N-Plant team:
- Us, the players of the pre-war "Zenith", in the spring of 1942 it remained in the city not so little. Almost everything worked in the workshops of the metal plant. For example, I was deputy head of the air defense of the workshop. Nor about what football, naturally, we did not think. In early May, I accidentally ran into the street with Dynamo player Dmitry Fedorov and quite unexpectedly immediately received a proposal from him to play with Dynamo. We had more problems with the acquisition. I had to collect players from Spartak and other urban teams. Some included in the composition never entered the field - they were so existed from hunger. The form was given rivals. Dynamo who managed to practice a bit, offered to play two half for 45 minutes. The factory workers agreed only two to 20. "Let's first half an hour," I said, approaching the judge Pavlov. - If you are supported, then all 45 minutes. " We had no goalkeeper, so the defender Ivan Kurenkov got into the gate, but still lacked another football player. Then the Dynamo gave us their player Ivan Smirnov. And yet we sustained two half, because they understood: the city should learn what we played.
Before the re-match on June 7, the team of the N-Plant was found by the goalkeeper, Kurekkov took the usual place in defense, and the factory workers almost achieved victory.
The son of goalkeeper "Dynamo" Viktor Nabwyova is a commentator, a journalist and producer Kirill Nabutov admitted that his father did not like to talk about a blockade match. But he told the impressions of another white-blue player - Mikhail Atyushin, the security officer of the Leningrad Militia, who played football before the war only at the amateur level.
"I spoke to Mikhail Southushin, a football player and a gymnast who participated in the match and whose surname also has a memorial playboard," says Nabutov. - He somehow went to the Stadium "Dynamo" to engage in gymnastics. In the winter months did not train - blockade, hunger. Came and met guys-football players. They say to him: "Oh! Good that you got caught! Let's go, play. " They played, but he didn't remember the details.
"In Out, do not beat - there is potatoes"
Lovely by many Leningrads Stadium "Dynamo" over the past 70 years has not changed almost not changed, unless buildings intended for other sports appeared instead of the large tribune.
In 1942, only one of the three spare fields was suitable for playing football on Dynamo. German projectile fell to the main platform. On the other two they grown the pants and cabbage. And only on the third field, to the left of the main entrance, it was possible to play football, although not without restrictions.
- When they went out on the field, they were told: try not to beat out in Out, because potato is planted there. Potato in blockade is life. When the first half ended, the players were offered to relax, but they answered that they would not rest, because if they were coming, they would not be able to get up, "says Herman Zonin.
Certificates of players allow us to understand how hard it was.
Anatoly Mishuk, Zenitian, Havbek Commands of the N-Plant:
- In the spring, I was placed in the factory hospital in the last stage of dystrophy. When it came out from there, I was searching for charms, I said that there would be a game. It seems I was the weakest of ours. I remember such an episode: there is a non-long transmission. I, as hundreds of times did in the pre-war matches, take the ball head, and he ... knocks me off his feet.
"In the courtyard of war, and here some
Shantrap Ball chases! "
Information about how many fans on the game were, different sources are reported different - from several dozen wounded from the neighboring hospital to 350 graduates of commander courses. Before the war, Dynamo were the favorites of the city, they knew them in the face, but the blockade adversity changed people to be unrecognizable. Leningraders, who were at the venue of the meeting, were extremely amazed when they understood who in front of them.
Evgeny Ulitin, Dynamo:
- On the eve of the game in the part, where I served as a sergeant of communication, a telephone program came about what to arrive at the match. Early in the morning I went to Leningrad on a passing car, descended from a truck near Palace Square. Further to the stadium went on foot. There embraced with comrades, picked up boots and shape. "In the courtyard of the war, and here some shawn ball chases!" - fans were indignant. They simply did not recognize their recent idols. In the first minutes we did not have any legs nor the ball. But the guys slowly started, and the game went. "Ba! Yes, it is Oreshkin! Nabutov! Fedorov! " - he was heard from the Tribune, which were immediately relieved and began to hurt to the entire coil. Despite the warm day, it was difficult to play, at the end of the match reduced the legs. However, most Dynamo had much more forces than our rivals. In addition, there was a field player in their gate. In many ways, a major account is explained. In the course of the game, I wanted to replace, but with great difficulty they scored people for two compositions. The Meeting Participants field left in an embrace. And not only because they were proud of each other - it was just so it was easier to go. Returned to the part under Shlisselburg and the week two barely walked.
Footballers perfectly understood the importance of mission assigned to them. It was necessary to post the fascist propaganda and give the city hope for a peaceful life.
Valentin Fedorov:
- It was difficult. And the muscles were scary, and the ball seemed harder than usual. And he flew not so far. But all this was nothing in comparison with the mood. We understood how important it is just to play ...
Indeed, the radio record about the game, which appeared the next day, was met with an extraordinary inspiration. The former Dynamo striker Nikolai Svetlov wrote about this in a letter: "I will never forget the day when in trenches on the Sinyavinian swamps, 500 meters from the Germans, I heard a report from Dynamo Stadium. At first did not believe. Ran in the dugout to the radio stations. They confirmed: True, the football passes. What happened to the fighters! Everyone was excited. "
MYTHS AND LEGENDS
Around the blockade match, or rather, blockade matches - we know that there were several of them, "there are a lot of dubious information, and sometimes frank speculations. But it is important exactly what in the difficult 1942 in the blockade Leningrad really played football, and more than once. At the same time, a number of photos of the allegedly blockade match do not have a relationship to him, since they depict a game on a dilapidated Lenin stadium, and not at all at Dynamo. There was no direct radio broadcast on Soviet and German trenches. On the radio about the game was told in the record.
"There was no report on enemy trenches," Cyril Nabutov argues. - Worked intelligence. In the case of a direct report, the Germans would instantly identified where the match passes, and could calmly fire the place of the accumulation of people. And so shots were, but far. A few hundred meters fell a projectile, and that's it. As always, reality is modest than the legends that accompany her. I talked with the Austrian communist Fritz Fuchs. During the blockade, he worked on Leningrad radio - in German led propaganda news releases, which were broadcast on enemy troops. His someone on the radio told him: "I heard? On Dynamo yesterday played football "-" What are you? Of course, I'll tell you about it! " And in the news release, he reported a match. Blocked matches were a lot.
"In 2018 to the monument of football players
Blockers will lay flowers »
On May 31, on the day of the 70th anniversary of the legendary match, next to the field, on which the game was held, a monument will be opened: two struggling football players, nearby - a bench on which flowers and a military uniform are played. St. Petersburg telecommatator Gennady Orlov hopes that the case is not limited to the discovery of the monument and the memorial sign that appeared in 1991.
- imagine, the 2018 World Cup will come football players and fans from the most different countries And lay flowers in memory of the victory of the Spirit. Participants of the blockade match were dystrophic. They said: "It is better not to take us a break between the temperatures, because if we dwell, we will not rise." I had the honor to know many match participants. Stunning people - such inner beauty! It must be acted, and the museum must be, "the Orlov is convinced.
Monument to the players of the Blocade Leningrad
On May 2, 1943, a football match took place in Stalingrad, which became a symbol of the city resistance. A friendly meeting, organized exactly three months after the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, should have shown - and showed everything to the world that a practically destroyed city is ready to start a full-fledged peaceful life.
The football field of the only surviving stadium "Nitrogen" came under the flag "Dynamo" the football players, which was the backbone of the team of the pre-war "tractor" (today - the Volgograd team "Rotor"). The famous Moscow "Spartak" was their rival.
And even earlier almost a year ago there was a football in a blockade Leningrad - the city of uncompressed ....
On May 31, 1942, a football match between Dynamo teams and the "N-Plant" teams took place in the Blocade Leningrad (as the Leningrad Metal Plant was "encrypted" at that time). The value of this event is impossible to feel if not taken into account the historical context in which this event was forever written. Indeed, in April 1942, German aircraft were scattered over our parts of the leaflet: "Leningrad is the city of the Dead. We do not take it yet, and only because. What is afraid of a body epidemic. We made this city from the face of the earth. " The game, which took place at Dynamo Stadium in May, refuted these arguments to the enemy propaganda.
Leningrad was not a city of the Dead. Leningrad extended terrible, cold and hungry, winter. Despite the fierce bombings and art-rods, from February 1942, the second branch of the "Road Life" worked uninterrupted, which made it possible to somewhat increase the rate of vacation of bread and other products. It comes to 200 cars with food and other goods daily into the city. Leningrad lived and even played football!
May 1942. Leningrad has not yet recovered from the most terrible, the first blockade winter. In the trench near the Sinyavinsky swamps, preparing for the reflection of the next attack of the Germans, the striker of the Petersburg "Dynamo" Nikolai Svetlov sits. What was his surprise when, instead of the traditional "pumping", he heard a familiar to pain: "Smirnov passes on the flank, puts into the penalty on the fence-goalkeeper of Dynamo Viktor Nabutov in a brilliant jump takes the ball!".
It is now difficult to say who became the initiator of the legendary blockade match. It was not easy to gain 22 people - as soon as the captain of Zenit was remembered, several Zenitians who worked at the city factories were so exhausted that, trying to make acceleration, fell on running track And they could not climb without any assistance. However, the footballers understood that they would not only please Leningrads, but also show the whole country that Leningrad was alive and even a terrible siege could not break the inhabitants of the city.
The game field was so sparkling by funnels from the bombs that the match had to be transferred to the backup field of the Dynamo Club.
Leningrad was not the city of the dead. Leningrad extended terrible, cold and hungry winter. Despite the fierce bombing and art printers, from February 1942, the second railway line "Road of Life" was uninterrupted, which made it possible to slightly increase the rate of bread and other products. Up to 200 wagons with food and other goods were coming to 200 cars. Leningrad lived and even played football!
And yet, it is impossible to say that the match in a deposited city is easy. It was a feat.
Dynamo Stadium at that time was a sad spectacle: one football field was repached by projectiles, the second is occupied by the vegetables. It remained only the third, which is left to the central entrance - on it and played.
Is it worth saying that at the beginning of the slow movement on the field of these exhausted people were little reminded sports contest. If the football player fell, it was often no strength to get up. But gradually, the players entered the taste, the game was set up, a few spectators (mostly wounded from the nearest hospital, a person 40), as football players began to jump in the pre-war years - and the game went! In the first (and the ties continued to half an hour - it was more simply not to withstand) I didn't even sit down on the grass, they knew: sit down - the strength to climb it. After the match, players left the field in an embrace. Not only from friendly feelings - it was so easy to go.
What is behind this significant in the world history of football fact?
Especially for this match with advanced, former players of Leningrad Dynamo and Zenita were revoked: the bronchorer commander Lieutenant Victor Nabutov, the commander of the torpedo boat, Glavstanarnishshina Boris Oreshkin (almost all relatives killed in the first year, fought in the Baltic), sniper German Georgy Shorets, Zapolitruk Messenchasts A. Viktorov, Infantrymen - ordinary Evgeny Arkhangelsky and Mr. Mozdayov ... In the city in the city of the police served at the time K. Sazonov, the captain of the pre-war "Dynamo" Valentin Fedorov, Arkady Alov (both are future elders Coaches "Zenith"), al. Fedors. Players "Zenit" A. Zyablov, S. Medvedev, A. Lebedev, N. Smirnov, worked in the shops of LMZ, ... On the road of life, Zenitovsky A. Korkov and Medvedev worked on the road. Ivan Kurenkov and Nikolay Smirnov played for the metal plant, who played Zenit in 1944, when he won the USSR Cup, Alexander Zyablikov, Anatoly Mishuk, Alexey Lebedev, Georgy Medvedev, Nikolai Gorelkin and other Zenit Masters. And so, after an almost annual break at Dynamo Stadium, players of famous teams gathered.
So, the teams legends, so they are these courageous people:
"Dynamo":
Viktor Nabutov
M. Syushin - V. Ivanov - Boris Oreshkin
Valentin Fedorov - Mr. Movies
Anatoly Viktorov - A. Fedorov - Arkady Alov - K. Sazonov - Evgeny Ulitin
LMZ:
Ivan Kurenkov
Georgy Medvedev - Alexey Lebedev - Nikolai Smirnov
Alexander Zyablikov - Anatoly Mishuk
I. Smirnov - Nikolai Gorelkin - L. Losev - A. Fesenko - N. Smirnov
Judged the game Pavel Pavlov
It must be said that the Dynamo team was almost completely composed of football players, and indeed before the war speaking for this club, while the LMZ team was more "heterogeneous". Many professional club players were evacuated from the city with their enterprises, the Leningrad "Spartak" almost fully gone by volunteers to the front.
The backbone of the "N-SK Factory" team was composed of Zenit players: Zyablikov, Kurenkov, N. Sirnov, I. Smirnov, Medvedev, Mishuk, Lebedev. A single goalkeeper was found in the team, so the place in the gate was taken by Defender Kurekov - the future captain of Cup Zenit-44. The several remaining "vacancies" completed players, never earlier in the teams of masters did not play. However, it's still, I believe, there are all the grounds to say: on May 31, the Leningrad teams "Dynamo" and Zenit met. "Moreover, in many old print materials it is also said.
The game ended with the victory of the more played "Dynamo" 6: 0. Yes, if it is important who won then! Here is an excerpt from the letter of the former Dynamo striker N. Svellov, who did not play in that match: "I will never forget the day when in trenches on Sinyavinsky swamps 500 meters from the Germans heard a report from the Dynamo stadium. I did not believe it, ran In the dugout to the radar, and they confirmed: True, the football passes. What was done with the fighters! It was such a fighting rise that if at that moment a signal was given to embroider the Germans with their trenches, they would have a bad way! ".
The fact of this match in the blockade city caused such a resonance throughout the country (naturally, this event was not left unnoticed by any, nor Germans), so raised the spirit of residents of the city, which is good to say: the game ended with the victory of Leningrad!
Justice for, it should be noted that this match was not first! On May 6, 1942, a game was held, which was then recognized, allegedly, "training". The same "Dynamo" played, and his opponent was the team that represented the military unit of the Baltic Fleet Major A. Mailagorov (7: 3 in favor of Dynamo, the judge - Nikolai Usov). Moreover, it is this match for many years and was considered officially a real first blockade match. At least in the Leningrad calendars-directories, in the mid-80s, it was this match that was described by the "blockade". But the names of those brave sailors are not mentioned anywhere, and the match itself was devoted to oblivion. As if it was not ...
Soccer game Between the teams "Dynamo" and the Red Banner Baltic Fleet (CBF) at the stadium. IN AND. Lenin in Blocade Leningrad. 05/30/1943
Obviously, by the time of the structure of the first commemorative board at Dynamo Stadium in 1991, it was decided to recognize the match with a more "serious" opponent. (On the front at the entrance to Dynamo Stadium, that on the Cross Island, a memorial plaque was installed. It shows the silhouettes of football players and spelled out words: "Here, at Dynamo stadium, in the most heavy days Blockeds May 31, 1942 Leningrad Dynamo held a historical blockade match with a metal plant team. ")
Then, already on July 7, Dynamo with LMZ met again. The game ended with a score of 2: 2, and was not interrupted even during the art freshet (good, shot on another area)! This match was again judged by Nikolai Usov.
And after that, the matches in the precipitated city became regular. In the fall of 1942, even a championship was conducted among the military units of the city garrison. Dynamo and in the same summer went to Moscow, to hold matches with metropolitan teams. They played with Spartak and Dynamo (Moscow). Now everyone knew - the city lives!
July 19 on the bombardment of the Lenin Stadium, now it is Petrovsky, Dynamo played on the day of physical culture. Then the poet Nikolay Tikhonov was present at the stadium and in the book "Leningrad Year", published in 1943, wrote: "No more stadium, there was one small tribune and a huge green field framed by the barrier of iron scrap. ... and yet the Spirit soviet Sport, the spirit of Leningrad perseverance owns a field. There will be time, the stadium will be in full growth ... "And it happened! The stadium is and at this stadium now pass the brightest matches of" Zenit ". And, as it were, the games did not develop - Zenit will always be a champion for Petersburgers.