In the summer of 1941, the Wehrmacht General Staff was so sure of an imminent victory that it did not special attention to the forest and swampy territory with rare dirt roads between the army groups "Center" and "North", directed, respectively, to Moscow and Leningrad. After the capture of the Belarusian capital and the defeat of the main forces of the Western Military District in the Bialystok and Minsk "cauldrons" (341 thousand irretrievable losses of the Red Army in two weeks), the German motorized corps began to advance towards the Dnieper and the Western Dvina. Chief of the German General Staff Colonel General Franz Halder wrote in his diary: “In general, it can already be said that the task of defeating the main forces of the Russian land army ... has been completed ... Therefore, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the campaign against Russia was won within 14 days. Of course, it's not finished yet. The vast extent of the territory and the stubborn resistance of the enemy, using all means, will fetter our forces for many more weeks.

After the Battle of Moscow lost in December 1941 in Berlin, there was some sobering, but "dizziness" began from the first major success in the Kremlin and in the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command (VGK). A decision was made, not supported by material resources, to launch a counteroffensive along the entire front with the help of powerful shock armies, including to unblock Leningrad, create a “boiler” for the Army Group Center, and liberate Kharkov and Crimea. The strategic plan for the offensive of the Red Army was discussed at the beginning of January 1942 at the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command. The essence of the plan was outlined by Joseph Stalin: “The Germans want ... to buy time and get a break. Our task is not to give the Germans this respite, to drive them westward without stopping, to force them to use up their reserves before spring, when we will have new large reserves, and the Germans will have no more reserves, and thus ensure , complete defeat of the Nazi troops in 1942 ". This decision was not only supported by all the commanders of the fronts, but they took on increased obligations, including the defeat of the Wehrmacht group "Center". After the failures of the first year of the war with retreats and "boilers", everyone rushed to the offensive without a critical analysis of the real situation and underestimation of the enemy's power.

To fulfill the strategic plan, a special role was assigned to the newly formed shock armies. Operational military formations (shock armies) were, as a rule, in the reserve of the Headquarters of the GVK and were intended to defeat enemy groupings in the main directions. At the beginning of the war, they included tank, mechanized and cavalry corps. They had to be better equipped than conventional armies with tanks, guns and mortars. By the beginning of 1942, five shock armies had been created. Unfortunately, their material support was not always satisfactory. There was a huge shortage of artillery shells. There was not enough aviation to cover the rifle divisions. Due to the lack of rockets to reinforce the shock armies, the guards missile and mortar regiments with the most formidable secret weapon of the famous Katyushas were not allocated from the Reserve of the SVK.
Only in the following years of the war were shock armies fully equipped and played important role in the victory over the Third Reich. The soldiers of the Third Shock Army in 1945 hoisted the Banner of Victory. Commanding Colonel General, Hero Soviet Union Vasily Kuznetsov previously commanded the First Shock Army, which distinguished itself in the counteroffensive near Moscow and the Demyansk offensive operation in February 1942.

The Fifth Shock Army, led by Colonel General Nikolai Berzin, Hero of the Soviet Union, also stormed Berlin, and the commander became the first commandant of the defeated capital of the Third Reich.

In the winter campaign of 1942, the offensive of the Soviet troops on the Volkhov Front was an integral part of the Stavka's Strategic Plan for the release of Leningrad. But the breakthrough of the German front by the Second Shock Army turned into a tragedy. For three months of fighting (January - March 1942), three commanders were replaced in the army. Having broken through the front in a small area near Myasny Bor, the army found itself surrounded without reserves, shells and food in the conditions of spring crossroads and impassability. On June 27, 1942, the front command made the last attempt to break through, which ended unsuccessfully, and by the end of July the Second Shock Army ceased to exist. According to various estimates, from 13 to 16 thousand soldiers left the encirclement mainly near Myasny Bor (“Valley of Death”), the rest were captured (about 27 - 30 thousand people). In total, over 146,000 Soviet soldiers and officers died during the operation. The commander of the shock army, Lieutenant General Vlasov, who accepted the army in a hopeless state, surrendered.

Two months earlier, in April 1942, on the southern flank of the Wehrmacht group "Center", when leaving the encirclement of the 33rd Army, commander General Mikhail Efremov (Hero Russian Federation, posthumously, 1996). The Germans, paying tribute to the courage of the general, buried him with military honors.

The troops of the Third and Fourth Shock Armies of the Kalinin Front, operating in the northwestern direction, were ordered by the Headquarters to break through the front in the Velikiye Luki region and further develop the offensive against Vitebsk and Orsha in order to bypass Smolensk from the west and create a "cauldron" for the Wehrmacht group "Center". But due to the threat of the environment, the tasks were not completed.

The Soviet operation to defeat Army Group Center ended in defeat. Military history places the blame for this on the commander of the Western Front, General of the Army Georgy Zhukov.

Rzhev-Vyazemskaya offensive operation (January 8 - April 20, 1942) on the Soviet operational map
The winter campaign of 1942 ended in tragedy for the Red Army, whose losses in the first quarter amounted to 1.8 million (!) people. On the Volkhov Front, the Second Shock Army ended up in the cauldron, the Rzhev-Vyazemsky operation of the Kalinin and Western Fronts ended in failure (losses of the Red Army - 776 thousand, including 272 thousand irretrievable), the troops of the Crimean Front were almost completely destroyed near Kerch by the swift counteroffensive of the Wehrmacht . The troops of the Southwestern Front, advancing on Kharkov, were surrounded. The initiative passed to the Wehrmacht, which developed a plan for a strategic summer offensive in the southern direction. "Comrade Molotov had to urgently pack his suitcase, get into a strategic bomber and fly to bow to the capitalist uncles ...".

Against the background of the unsuccessful campaign of the Red Army, the Fourth Shock Army, led by Colonel General Andrei Eremenko (future Hero of the Soviet Union and Marshal), distinguished himself. She took part in the counter-offensive near Moscow, and in the winter campaign of 1942 as part of the Kalinin Front. The army has reached best result- broke through the defensive lines of the Wehrmacht and in a month of fighting deepened by 250 km, liberating the cities of Andreopol and Toropets, and after taking Velizh (in the north of the Smolensk region) went ... to the border of the Byelorussian SSR.

249th Rifle Division, staffed mainly by border guards (division commander Major General German Tarasov

For its 85 years, the Dynamo stadium has played a big role in the history of domestic football, and throughout the country. It was built in 1928 according to the project of architects Alexander Langman and Leonid Cherikover for the All-Union Spartakiad. In just a couple of years, the Dynamo stadium has grown in one of the most beautiful corners of old Moscow.

At first, it had the shape of a horseshoe half a kilometer long - an unprecedented construction for that time. The stadium could accommodate about 40 thousand spectators, before its appearance, the players of the Moscow Dynamo club could not even dream of such a thing. The stadium opened on August 17, 1928. On the same day, the first football match between the national teams of Belarus and the working clubs of Switzerland took place here.

Attempts to hold matches under electric lighting have been made since 1933. And in 1940, high towers with searchlights were finally installed in the corners of the stadium. The first match in the light of lanterns was held at the Dynamo stadium on November 8, 1940. The owners of the snow-covered field received Dynamo from Riga. Muscovites beat the guests with the second squad with a score of 4:2. But the first final of the USSR Cup with electric lighting was held at the Dynamo stadium only on October 10, 1953.

Over time, the stadium required modernization. Reconstruction continued from the autumn of 1934 to the beginning of 1936. "Dynamo" has become even more spacious and comfortable, the horseshoe has turned into an oval. And in 1938, a small stadium for 10,000 spectators was also built here. The sports complex grew and developed, but then the war began. On June 19, 1941, the last peaceful match takes place at the stadium, as part of the USSR Dynamo Championship, Moscow hosts the Stalingrad Tractor. The game ended in a draw with a score of 1:1. The game was followed by 30 thousand spectators.

1941 - 1944, military training camp

During the war, the stadium was carefully disguised, there are no more athletes here. Unless snipers and arrows were engaged in the shooting range. Special detachments of the famous separate motorized rifle brigade for special purposes or OMSBON are formed at Dynamo.

For disguise during the war, spruces were planted on Dynamo.

The first match after a long break was held at the stadium on July 18, 1944. As part of the championship of the capital, Dynamo won against Torpedo with a score of 3 - 2. Until 1956, when the Luzhniki stadium was built, Dynamo remained the main arena of the country.

On that day, for the first time in the USSR, a live television broadcast of a football match was staged. On June 29, 1949, the first match in the USSR was held at the Dynamo stadium, which viewers could watch at home. The meeting was shown in its entirety in live. At the stadium "Dynamo" CDKA defeated Minsk "Dynamo" with a score of 4:1. The radio announcer Vadim Sinyavsky commented on the match. And after that, live broadcasting and the presence of television in general became the norm at all big events.

Stadium "Dynamo". 1949

1980 XXII Olympic games

From 1977 to 1979, Dynamo was again reconstructed. The stadium is being prepared for the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The large stadium hosts football matches, while the small arena hosts matches Olympic tournament field hockey. The team of the country of the Soviets takes on the "Dynamo" football players from Cuba, Kuwait.

Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia also meet here in the semi-finals. In total, 7 meetings of the Olympic tournament took place at the stadium. And on August 1, 1980, with 45 thousand spectators, the USSR national team in the match for third place beats Yugoslavia with a score of 2:0. Czechoslovakia won the gold of the Olympiad, the GDR team won the silver.

Dynamo Stadium after reconstruction for the 1980 Olympics.

After the Olympics, the stadium began to be used as a concert venue. The legendary band Deep Purple performed for the first time in Russia at a festival organized by Europa Plus radio station. On June 23, 1996 at the Dynamo stadium at a rock concert they also sang Status Quo, Nautilus - Pompilius, Untouchables, Moral Code. Deep Purple ignited the audience for 1.5 hours, 20 thousand fans came to see them. By the way, the festival was originally planned for the 22nd, but Yeltsin issued a decree to postpone the concert, since this is the day the war began.

It was here, at Dynamo, that Michael Jackson performed in 1996, during his second visit to Russia as part of the HIStory world tour. It was a huge event. The stadium, designed for 54,000 seats, gathered 71,000 fans of the King of Pop. The concert was postponed for three hours because the stage was not prepared in time. The famous trainer Edgar Zapashny, who, along with his brother, was at this performance by Jackson, said that people, waiting for the star to come out, fainted. The crowd was so dense. The show began with a grand fireworks display.

In 2008, the stadium celebrated its 80th anniversary. A year later, in 2009, a large-scale reconstruction will begin here. And on November 22, 2008, a farewell match is held at Dynamo, the Moscow team receives Tom. full stadium and farewell to the native arena are two great reasons to win, which Dynamo does. Score 2:0.

2016…

Z The reconstruction of the stadium is planned to be completed by 2016. From the old "Dynamo" there will be only a wall overlooking Leningradka. New football arena will meet all UEFA requirements.

This is what the Dynamo stadium will look like after reconstruction.

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Events of World War II in 1942. Briefly

• January 5 - (until March 21, 1943) the beginning of the Rzhev battle, three major offensive operations of the Red Army, which cost it almost half a million dead
  
• January 8 - the end of the counteroffensive of the Red Army near Moscow, the Tula, Ryazan and Moscow regions, some areas of the Kalinin, Smolensk and Oryol regions were liberated, but it was not possible to defeat the Army Group Center
• January 11 - Japanese troops occupied Kula Lumpur (today the capital of Malaysia, and then the administrative center of the colony of British Malaya)
• January 14 - Pravda publishes K. Simonov's poem "Wait for me"
  
• January 20 - At a conference in Wannsee (a district of Berlin), Hitler decided to
• January 20 - Japanese troops invaded Burma (British colony, today - Myanmar)
• January 21 - the next offensive of the German troops in Libya, the retreat of the British
• February 1 - A pro-German government is created in Norway under the leadership of V. Quisling
• February 7-15 - the capture by the Japanese landing of Singapore (the main 6 British naval base in Southeast Asia), 70,000 prisoners
• February 11 - in the besieged Leningrad, new supply standards were introduced: 500 grams of bread for workers, 400 for employees, 300 for children and the unemployed
• February 13 - Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On the mobilization for the wartime period of the able-bodied urban population for work in production and construction": "Men from 16 to 55 years old and women from 16 to 45 years old from among not working in state institutions and enterprises”
• February 16-March 23 - Japanese occupation of Java, Bali, Timor, Sulawesi, Borneo, North Sumatra, Nicobar and Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, surrender of Dutch troops in Indonesia
• February 22 - Writer Stefan Zweig and his wife commit suicide in Petropolis, Brazil.
• March 5 - The first performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Seventh ("Leningrad") Symphony took place at the Leningrad Philharmonic.
  
• March 15 - Italian Football Championship "Roma" - "Fiorentina" 1: 0, "Genoa" - "Milan" 1: 1
• March 21 - The beginning of internment in the concentration camps of the Japanese from the Hawaiian Islands and the West Coast of the United States for fear that they might side with Japan. American-born Japanese Americans who had reached adulthood by the start of World War II, and Japanese living on the East Coast, were not affected by the deportations. The 442nd shock detachment formed from them, which fought in Europe, received the largest number of awards in the history of the American army and the nickname "Purple Heart Battalion" (after the name of the award awarded for one combat wound)
• April 9 - Surrender of American troops in the Philippines
• April 18 - American bombing of Tokyo
• May 3 - Budapest. Friendly football match between Germany and Hungary
• May 4-8 - Battle of the Coral Sea (south of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands) - a turning point in military operations in the Pacific Ocean, the first naval battle in which aircraft carriers opposed each other, the end of the undivided dominance of Japanese naval aviation
• May 12 - The offensive of the Red Army near Kharkov began, ending in defeat and a retaliatory offensive of the Nazis in the direction of the Volga and the Caucasus
• May 15 - Sobibur death camp began operating in southeastern Poland near the village of Sobibur.
• May 26 - after the assassination of Czech saboteurs on May 24, the German governor of Bohemia and Moravia, Heydrich, died
• July 3 - Order of the Supreme High Command on the termination of the defense of Sevastopol
  
• June 4-5 - the battle at Midway Atoll of the Japanese and American fleets, the defeat of the Japanese, after which the strategic initiative in the war in the Pacific passed to the US army. Midway is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean about a third of the way from Honolulu to Tokyo.
• June 10 - in retaliation for the death of Heydrich, the Nazis killed 176 men over 16 years old in the Czech village of Lidice near Prague, women and children were sent to a concentration camp
• June 21 - Rommel's army occupied the Libyan port of Torbuk, the Allied retreat to El Alamein in northern Egypt.
• July 21 - Japanese landing on the island of Papua New Guinea
• July 24 - Rostov-on-Don is occupied by the Germans
• June 28-July 24 - Voronezh-Voroshilovgrad operation of the troops of the Bryansk, Voronezh, South-Western and Southern Fronts against the German Army Group "South"
• July 17 - the beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad
• July 22 - 80 km. from Warsaw, the Treblinka-2 death camp was created
• July 28 - Stavka order No. 227, which prohibited any retreat under the threat of execution, introduced penal and barrage battalions in the Red Army
• August 5 (or 6) - Janusz Korczak and children from the Orphanage, which he headed, died in the Treblinka concentration camp
• August 7 (until February 1943) - the beginning of the battle of the allies and the Japanese army for the island of Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands), after the defeat in which the Japanese fought only defensive battles in the Pacific theater of operations
• August 11 - the beginning of the extermination of Jews in the Zmievskaya beam in Rostov-on-Don. Approximately 27,000 victims
• September 4 - the publication of the poem "Vasily Terkin" by A. Tvardovsky begins in the newspaper of the Western Front "Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda"
• September 23-November 4 - the Battle of El Alamein, in which the Italo-German troops were defeated, after which the initiative in the war in North Africa passed to the Allies
• October 14 - order of the German general staff on the transition of the troops of the Eastern Front to strategic defense
• November 6 - Vichy French resistance to the British on the island of Madagascar is broken.
• 6 November - Football match of the Czech People's League. Slavia - Sparta (Prague). 33,000 people in the stadium
• November 7 - landing in Algiers and Morocco by American and British forces, by the end of the month Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia are occupied by the allies
• November 11 - Hitler's order to occupy the rest of France, the next day - the Germans in Marseille
• November 19 - the beginning of the offensive of the Soviet army near Stalingrad
• November 25-27 - the beginning of the offensive of the Soviet Army of the Northern Group of the Transcaucasian Front, the Kalinin and Western Fronts (Rzhev-Sychevsk and Velikolukskaya offensive operations)
• November 26-27 - in the city of Bihac (Bosnia and Herzegovina) the First session of the Anti-Fascist Council of the People's Liberation of Yugoslavia was held and the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia was created
• November 29 – US imposes restrictions on trade and consumption of coffee
• November - creation of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia
• December 5 — commissioning of the most powerful blast furnace in Europe at the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant
  December - football match of the Danish championship "AB" - "B-93". 27000 spectators
• December 16-30 - the successful offensive of the troops of the Southwestern and Voronezh fronts on the Middle Don
• December 19 - the beginning of the British offensive in Burma

The construction of the stadium in Petrovsky Park began in 1923 according to the project of architects Alexander Langman and Leonid Cherikover. The stadium originally had the shape of a horseshoe, but already in 1935 the East Stand was built, enclosing the stadium. From that time on, the Dynamo stadium had a capacity of 54,000 spectators and remained the main arena of the country until the opening of the Luzhniki stadium. Today it is the oldest Moscow stadium.

Dynamo became home arena Moscow football club, the first Dynamo match at the new stadium was held on May 19, 1929. In the USSR, sport was an ideology, not entertainment for spectators. Everyone from small to large handed over sports standards preparing for labor and defense. The whole country knew the names of the champions different types sports. Although Dynamo is primarily known as football stadium, before the war, bicycle and motorcycle races, all-Union championships in athletics And speed skating, bandy matches.

Dynamo before reconstruction. 1934: https://pastvu.com/p/79123

The facade of the lobby of the Dinamo metro station is decorated with bas-reliefs depicting athletes and athletes

Ticket pavilions of the stadium

During the Great Patriotic War, soldiers were trained at a carefully guarded stadium and OMSBON detachments (a separate motorized rifle brigade for special purposes) were formed, which were then sent to the enemy rear. Shooters and snipers trained in the shooting gallery, and young spruces were planted on the football field, probably in order to disguise themselves from air scouts.

"Dynamo". 1942-1944: https://pastvu.com/p/1765

"Dynamo". Celebration of the 800th anniversary of Moscow. 1947: https://pastvu.com/p/450639

On June 3, 1945, the first peacetime football match took place at the Dynamo Central Stadium. In the 1950s, football was beyond competition, newsreel footage has been preserved of how huge lines line up at the box office, how crowds of people besiege the gates of the stadium, and how the overcrowded stands emotionally react, following the ups and downs of the match. Then a song appeared on the verses of Lev Oshanin: “But all of Moscow stubbornly goes straight to Dynamo, forgetting about the rain ...”

"Dynamo". 1957: https://pastvu.com/p/65508

In 1964, an electronic light board was installed at the stadium. Before that, banners with the names of the teams were posted on the information towers, and when goals were scored, the giant numbers of the match score were manually changed.

"Dynamo". 1980: https://pastvu.com/p/802807

For the Moscow Olympics, all old sports facilities were reconstructed, in particular, lighting masts appeared at Dynamo, which made it possible to broadcast television in color. As part of football tournament Olympics-80 seven matches were played here. Spectators then sat on more wooden benches, plastic chairs appeared here in 1998, due to which the stadium's capacity was sharply reduced.

The press box is a cult place, Vadim Sinyavsky and Nikolai Ozerov conducted their reports from here.

At the entrance to the North Stand in 1999, a monument was opened to the greatest goalkeeper Lev Yashin, who gained fame in games for the USSR national team, and in club tournaments he defended the colors of Dynamo Moscow.

Football commentator Vasily Utkin

To football

On November 22, 2008, a farewell match was held at the stadium (in a historic match, the capital's Dynamo played with Tomyu), and in 2009 a major reconstruction of the stadium began. Demolition of some buildings is planned, in place of which two new ones will be erected. sports complex, offices, a hotel and a residential complex with class A apartments. Trade areas will be located underground, and a retractable roof will allow Dynamo to hold concerts. After reconstruction, the capacity of the arena will be 45,000 spectators. The author of the project is the Dutchman Eric van Egeraat and the Russian Mikhail Posokhin, head of the Mosproekt-2 Institute. The total area of ​​the sports part will be more than 200 thousand square meters, and the total area of ​​the commercial part will be twice as large - more than 450 thousand square meters. After reconstruction, the stadium will be called " VTB Arena Dynamo Central Stadium” (construction work is carried out at the expense of investments from this bank).

In the photographs of 2008 - the Dynamo stadium immediately after the farewell match

Three years have passed. The lighting masts were dismantled, the stands were dismantled and the construction site came to a standstill. But at the beginning of February 2012, construction equipment came to the stadium again. According to the plan, already in 2016 the stadium should be ready for football matches, and in 2018 the games of the World Cup will be held here.

In St. Petersburg there is a monument that not everyone knows about - a monument in memory of the football players of besieged Leningrad. The legendary football match that took place 75 years ago had a powerful ideological and psychological impact on residents besieged city and on the enemy. Famous Leningrad footballers of that time changed their tunics for T-shirts to prove that Leningrad is alive and will never surrender.

In August 1941, two months after the start of the Great Patriotic War, a powerful offensive of fascist troops on Leningrad began. The German command hoped as soon as possible capture the cradle of the revolution, and then move on to Moscow. But Leningraders - both adults and children - stood shoulder to shoulder to protect their native city.

But it was not possible to take Leningrad, and then the Nazis decided to strangle the city in a blockade. In August, the Germans managed to block the Moscow-Leningrad road and the blockade ring was closed by land. There were 2.5 million people in the city, of which about 400 thousand were children. And even in the most difficult conditions of the city and the bombings, Leningraders continued to work and fight. During the blockade, more than 640 thousand people died of starvation and more than 17 thousand died from shells and bombs.

In the spring of 1942, fascist planes periodically scattered leaflets over the Red Army units: “Leningrad is the city of the dead. We do not take it yet, because we are afraid of a cadaveric epidemic. We wiped this city off the face of the earth." But it was not so easy to break the inhabitants of the city.

Today it is difficult to say who first came up with the idea of ​​​​football, but on May 6, 1942, the Leningrad City Executive Committee decided to hold a football match at the Dynamo stadium. And on May 31, a football match was held between the team of the Leningrad Metal Plant and Dynamo. This match refuted all the arguments of fascist propaganda - the city did not just live, it also played football.

It was not easy to recruit 22 people to participate in the match. To participate in the match with the advanced recalled former football players. They understood that they would not only please the inhabitants of the city with their game, but also demonstrate to the whole country that the city is alive.

The Dynamo team included players who had played for this club even before the war, but the factory team turned out to be heterogeneous - those who were still strong enough to enter the field and knew how to play football played for it.

Not all athletes were able to enter the field. Many were so emaciated that they could hardly move. The very first ball that Zenit midfielder Mishuk took on his head knocked him down. After all, he had recently been discharged from the hospital after being treated for dystrophy.

They played on the reserve field of the Dynamo stadium, since the main one was simply “plowed up” by bomb craters. The fans were wounded from a nearby hospital. The match took place in two short halves of 30 minutes each, and the players had to spend the second half under bombardment. It seems incredible that exhausted and exhausted players managed to hold out for so long on the field.

At first, the players moved so slowly that the action on the field hardly resembled sport competitions. If a footballer fell, then his comrades picked him up - he couldn’t get up on his own. During breaks, they did not sit on the lawn, because they knew that they would not be able to get up. Athletes left the field in an embrace - it was much easier to walk that way.

Needless to say, this match was a real feat! Ours, the Germans, and the inhabitants of Leningrad learned about the fact of this match. This last match really lifted the spirit. Leningrad survived and won.

In 1991, a memorial plaque was installed at the Leningrad Dynamo stadium with the words “Here, at the Dynamo stadium, at the very hard days Blockade On May 31, 1942, Dynamo Leningrad held a historic blockade match with the Metal Plant team and the silhouettes of football players. And in 2012, a monument to the participants of a football match was opened in St. Petersburg at the Dynamo stadium, the author of the monument is People's Artist of Russia Salavat Shcherbakov.