Lokomotiv museum is opened!

On Thursday, November 24, very significant event happened in Cherkizovo – Lokomotiv had opened its own museum. President of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, Lokomotiv president Olga Smorodskaya and team captain Dmitriy Loskov took part in the opening ceremony.

-    I`m happy that idea of museum foundation is realized and realized very good, - said president of Russian Railways. – I congratulate Olga Smorodskya, members of club committee of directors and the whole team with this event. The museum is important as for the veterans so and for the last railwaymen population – and for the last, may be, even more important.

I`m sure that opening of museum will have a positive impact for players and supporters mood. To the same Lokomotiv has taken heart this season and has not a bad tournament prospects. One more time I congratulate all of you with opening of museum and wish good game, excellent mood and wins.

After that the floor was being given to Olga Smorodskaya.

-    Millions people in all the world admire football, beautiful combinations, individual skills of players. All these makes football related with art. And the opening of museum is one more confirmation of this. Any object which appears in museum becomes immortal. On the other hand, the club`s history returns to life.     

I`m very proud that opening of museum occurs in a such significant year for our club. I thank very much all club employers, our veterans, supporters for the fact that such serious work was being done in so short period of time and for that we were given priceless rarities. I want to thank personally the architector and designer of this project Maxim Baskov for extraordinary structure of museum space and builders, who have done everything on time. I wanna wish museum to increase with new trophies. I hope there will be a lot of prizes and they all will find the deserved place in museum exposition, - concluded Lokomotiv president.



Lokomotiv captain Dmitriy Loskov gave a speech as well.

-    Today we`ve become participants of big event – club museum opening, - noticed Dmitriy. – This day is very important for the club. Today the heritage of many generations of players, coaches and supporters has found its home. I want to thank all  he people who participated in the foundation of museum. My special gratitude is to Russian Railways president Vladimir Yakunin and Lokomotiv president Olga Smorodskaya, who have made our wishes come true. 

Now anyone who wishes, coming to museum, can see all the history of Lokomotiv since foundation of the club to nowadays. On behalf of all the players I congratulate the board of the club, all veterans and supporters with opening of museum. As a captain I promise that we will do our best to supplement museum`s collection by Russian and international trophies.



Vladimir Yakunin has tried the game zone of museum and shot a penalty kick to goal which are occupied by cardboard Guilherme. By the way, real Guilherme tried to score a goal to himself as well and had made it from the second attempt.  

In the end president of Russian Railways made the first note in the comments book, where on the front page Dmitiriy Loskov is depicted with Champions Cup-2002. “I wish that passion on the front page – passion to the symbol of Victory, has become a symbol of our team. Just forward, just win!” – wrote Vladimir Yakunin.