The tragedy of "Pakhtakor"

August 11 - a tragic day, he will remain in the history of Uzbek football forever. Names Pakhtakor-79 will remain in the memory of man, no matter whether they had seen them on the field. Because the players "Pakhtakor-79" were not only romantic green field, but also true patriots of their native land, "charged" to ensure that exalt the honor of the club and Uzbek football.





In every life there are days that he remembers the minutest details. On this day, August 11, 1979 each, to hear the tragic news, heart sank ... The witnesses of the tragedy thirty-four years ago, at first grieved, first of all, out of compassion, shocked stupid accident. Only then we realized that we lost ...
Look at the faces in the picture. After some six months many of these guys will be gone ...
1st row (sitting): V.Fёdorov, M.Talibdzhanov (administrator), G.Antonov, T.Isakov, V.AMBARTSUMIAN (coach), K.Bakanov, Sh.Ishbutaev, Yu.Basov, K.Novikov;
2nd row: O.Burov, V.Chumakov (Dr.) I.Tazetdinov (Coach), V. Makarov, A. Kochetkov (senior coach) A.Mogilny, N.Kulikov, V.Sabirov, R.Agishev , D.Roman;
3rd row: A.Dvornikov (masseur), Musayev, S.Pokatilov, A.Korchёnov, O.Ashirov, A.Yanovsky, A.Ubaydullaev, G.Denisov, V.Churkin.
Of those killed in the crash of the 79th year in this photo it is not - M.An, Yu.Zagumennyh, S.Bazarov.
Briefly TRAGEDY:
August 11, 1979, 13 hours 35 minutes 38 seconds, the flight Tashkent-Guriev-Donetsk, Minsk, 65816 board, flight Chelyabinsk - Chisinau, board 65735, -8400 m altitude, coordinates of the point of intersection of 48 ° 33'45 '' N. latitude and 38 degrees 40'38 "east longitude, the total number of passengers -178 people, including 17 members of the team" Pakhtakor »...
We remember and love these guys, not only because of their youth or professional talent that on that fateful day have not been able to protect them from the impact of blind pitiless fate. Now we understand that love and appreciate them every year more and more of infinite devotion to the team, which in those years, idolized and passionately supported the whole country.
Years go by, but the bitterness of the loss was less than ... Time winds momentum, further and further away from us the fatal date of the loss, but our memory and stores the names of the guys today, so suddenly and prematurely departed from us on that tragic August. I think that right was a famous football commentator Vladimir Pereturin, who said: "This grief will long be in our memory ... It is necessary to have time to talk and write about all we know about human fates pahatakorovtsev to remember ...»

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