Happy Victory Day!

Dear veterans!

Lokomotiv Football Club congratulates you on the Victory Day!

On May 9th, Russia is celebrating a big holiday. We thank you for the greatest feat in the history of our country, the courage, the valor, and the peaceful sky above our heads. From the bottom of the heart, we wish you good health, long life, prosperity, and love of your close ones.

Your feat will never be forgotten.

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It was a popular feat.

In June 1941 all our citizens became united by the war. It was the time when troubles and achievements became mutual.
The USSR Championship was stopped, and the club differences disappeared. Lokomotiv defender Ilya Gvozdkov, nicknamed Apollo for his statute and wide shoulders, volunteered to the army and went to the front. He died the same year.
Many players of that Lokomotiv would work in the rear and organize evacuation. They would also play in the Moscow championships of the wartime. Those games became the heralds of peace and victory.

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Much blood was spilled for the possession of railroads. The Nazis would drop bombs to destroy them, while the workers of the rear would restore them. '81,332 km of the main tracks have been rebuilt, as well as 6,901 km of the secondary tracks, as well as 29,041 km of the platform tracks, as well as 76,984 track switches, as well as 7,990 platforms and crossing loops'.
What's behind these chronicles? Blood, pain, cold, and famine. Heroic labour under the enemy's bombs - all in the name of our future.

We remember!