Specialists stood up for a small population of Baklanov and joke on the statement by Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Igor AlbinaSuperformed on the eve of the damage in the form of holes in the roof of the new Zenit-Arena stadium they shall be applied.

According to the Senior Methodist of the Scientific Department of the Leningrad Zoo Tatyana Mednik.Science does not know the facts of vandalism from the inhabitants of the Feather of Fauna. "Cormorant will not dare anything. Singing, he sits down and shakes the wings to dry the wet plumage, "the Fontanka ornithologist quotes.

In addition, the Methodist Zoo noted that in the area of \u200b\u200bthe stadium on the Cross Island, the cormorants are generally very rare guests, and the roof of the new stadium could be chosen the same silver seagulls. But they, according to Tatiana Mednik, to hammer the roof of the sports facility would not be. "Seagulls and colts love to sit on the highlighted bridge supports and catch the fish that floats into the light. But neither they nor even the dyatva will not dwell. Only one bird would have done this - parrot. He has a fairly powerful beak. And in Australia, there is even such a problem - the parrots may disassemble the roof of the house, damage the insulation on the wires and even disassemble the football gate, "the employee of the Leningrad Zoo said.

Already reported on an unusual statement by the vice-governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albina, who accused the regular leaks of the roof of the Arena- "St. Petersburg" of Baklanov.

"It (roof) is withstanding a stunning load - up to 400 kilograms per square meter. It would seem what difficulties can there be? It turned out, the protection against birds works incorrectly. There is such a famous bird - a cormorant that its powerful beak destroys the integrity of the film. Bird ... Drop by the beak reflective film on the roof. And this leads to defects that, in turn, let moisture in bad weather. To avoid such damage, it is necessary to finalize the protection project that is now worked incorrectly, "said the vice-governor in an interview with the" Sport: Day after day ".

After the interviews, Russian Internet users who did not agree with the assumption of the Smolny official were very vividly responded to the words of Igor Albina, criticizing it.

Igor Albin has already hurried to turn his application for a joke. "Friends, it is not worth treating everything too seriously. Be kinder. I am glad if someone has fun. But, in every joke there is ... Share jokes. Have a nice evening and hello from Baklanov! ", He wrote on August 23 in his Facebook.

Recall that the new stadium, designed for 68 thousand spectators, began to build in 2007 on the Cross Island. It was originally assumed that the construction of a sports facility would cost an urban treasury in the amount of 6.7 billion rubles. However, in February 2017, the administration of St. Petersburg stated that there were 43 billion in the stadium. Several football matches have already passed on the sports facility, including the International Cup Confederates-2017. Before the fight against the Russian Championship between the St. Petersburg "Zenit" and the Moscow "Spartak", the organizers did not closed the roof of the stadium, as a result, a strong hail with a lawn spoiled a lawn of the new Arena and wet the audience.

Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin in a conversation with journalists said that the cormorants were to blame for the roof problems of St. Petersburg Arena stadium - the official argues that they are the beak puzzled by reflective film of the structure. Albina's words quickly became a meme in social networks, the Baclan even had his own account on Twitter.

Igor Albin in a conversation with the publication "Sport day after day" Talked about the problems of St. Petersburg Arena. According to the official, the protection against birds does not cope with its task, which is why the reflective film suffers - the cormorated cakes.

- It [reflective film] withstands the amazing load - up to 400 kilograms per square meter. It would seem what difficulties can there be? It turned out, the protection against birds works incorrectly. There is such a famous bird - a cormorant that its powerful beak destroys the integrity of the film.

- Cormorants pushing the film with beak?

- Sure. In this case, a full-fledged bird protection project is needed, by analogy with airports.

Albin also called several other stadium defects, but then stressed that "these are not errors." "The object was built in accordance with the engineering project, but the exploitation of the stadium reveals the nuances, we are defective and eliminated," he said.

Albina's words about cormorants quickly became meme in social networks. Apparently, users considered the explanation of the vice-governor ridiculous and began to ironize him.

One of the users offered a new name for the stadium.

Someone even made changes to the article on the Blanks in Wikipedia add to the "Nutrition" section information that the bird can eat the roof of the stadium.

Later, the cormorant appeared

In a conversation with the publication "Sport Day after day", Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin tied the leakage at the Stadium "St. Petersburg Arena" with cormorants. The vice-governor stated that the bird "his powerful beak destroys the integrity of a reflective film" on the roof of the stadium. In social networks, the statement was ridiculed, and someone created the "Cross Bablan" account, where he answered Albina on behalf of the bird and gathered the best jokes on the topic. The first reaction to the stadium malfunction statement is to recall how much money was invested in it, and criticize the country's device.


Cablanin devoted poems and songs. The writer Alexander Tsapkin, like many others, remembered the Zaggannaya meaning of the word "Baklan" - "stupid, worthy contempt of man." Another reason for jokes was the fact that the cormorant was called one of the characters in the Russian voice acting "Bivis and Batthead". Perhaps the cormorants are sick for some other football team, and this is their response to the enemy. On the ironic twitter account "Cross Bablan" was signed by the author of the sensational quotation, Vice-Governor Igor Albin. The author of the "Beaver with Devyatikino" account came to discuss the Bakenov, created after the inhabitants of the new Devyatkino in December 2016 noticed on Okhta Bobrov. Some decided that the ecology was built by the dams of the dams: near the village, wastewater is discharged into the influx of Okta, from where they fall into the Neva and the Finnish bay. Did the cormorants really spoil the roof of the stadium? The Village journalists talked to ornithologists and found out that the cormorants nest mainly on the islands and rarely fly to the city. There is no need to roof the roof, unless they brought their food there. We have no birds at all, which are able to destroy the roof of the stadium - no crow, neither more stupid cormorant (this is a bird of a very low level of intelligence) will not do that. Here, unlike Australia, there is no parrot - only they have a beak capable of gnawing. Tatiana Mednik, Methodist of the Scientific Department of the Leningrad Zoo Ornithologist Rustam Sagitov suggested that birds can harm the stadium except with feces.
The article on the Blanks in the Russian Wikipedia was edited and made there new data on their habits. It came to the petition to rename the stadium in the "Baklan-Arena" instead of "Zenit-Arena", as it is called in conversational speech. The proposal posted the founder of the Mager Brewery contract brewery Sergey Grigoriev. "Open all over the world, but closed for the enemy, a city-worker, a romantic city, St. Petersburg is always inoperatively connected with the sea, rivers and channels. The main stadium of the city is the stadium. CM. Kirov - was erected on the island, and the indigenous Petersburgers remember the unique sea breeze, which came from the Gulf of Finland. And the judicial whistles and support for fans accompanied the cries of sea birds - gulls and cormorants. So now - the main Arena of St. Petersburg stands on the island, and seagulls and cormorants support their native team. In this regard, given the fact that our city is a city of marine glory, a port city, I propose to give a new stadium the name "Baklan-Arena". " From the petition "Rename the stadium on the cross in" Baklan-Arena "»
Petersburg publication "Fontanka" was a list, in what other problems of the city are to blame the cormorants: it is trash in parks, and icicles, and broken roads.

Baklans-vandals at Zenit-Arena were joke: Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin asked not to take seriously his words that birds were to blame in the new stadium. Earlier, the official stated that the cormorants pierce their keys with a special film on the roof of the arena. Vladimir Rasulov found out what the irony led to.


"I'm glad if someone was played. But in every joke there is ... Share of jokes "- so on the personal page on Facebook Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin commented on his own words about the cormorants, because of which the roof of Zenit-Arena is supposedly flows.

On Monday, in one of the interviews, the official said that in the course of the exploitation of the stadium, a problem with a reflective film was revealed - according to Albina, the cormorants are puzzled by her beats, and therefore the stadium requires a full-fledged project against birds by airports. This is despite the fact that the arena on the Cross Island began to build ten years ago, and almost 48 billion rubles have already been spent on it.

Ornithologists immediately doubted the words of the vice-governor. In St. Petersburg, there are no birds that could damage the roof of the stadium, the employee of the scientific department of the Leningrad Zoo Tatiana Mednik said: "Cormorant is rather small. Apply some damage, it cannot harm. The beak is adapted only to grab the prey under water. At the stadium, this is not a cormide at all - it is a silver seagull. The seagull is also dropping anything. They can walk around the field, collect rainworms there or some, rodents. "

On the words of Igor Albina, even "Wikipedia" reacted. After the statement of the official, the Russians became massively rule an article about the birds. After the text appeared in the text that the cormorants living in St. Petersburg eat the roof of the new football stadium, the online encyclopedia limited until August 25 the ability to edit the material.

Meanwhile, in Telegram-channel, Mash has information that the stadium leadership has already ordered the installation to scare the cormorants worth 70 thousand with installation for 30 thousand rubles. But blame the power of the city in new spending. The designers of the Arena could well provide for its protection from birds, said the engineer Alexander Soloviev: "Any decision, even after the commissioning of the facility, should be determined by construction organizations. Official, as Igor Albin, has the right to give his comments on this. But in other stadiums in the territory of the Russian Federation, I can say on my own experience - I did not do such protective mechanisms from birds. "

After the words about Blankanov-vandals, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg, Igor Albin noted that the city appealed to the famous company from France, which will help eliminate all the shortcomings of the stadium. It can do in a large amount, says Sports commentator Gennady Orlov: "There was no such thing, of course, the stadium was not in our country. This is a unique structure, and it will still have to hold it for a long time. Somewhere two months before the start of the Confederation Cup, the blank list was official for € 5.5 million, which must be done before the World Cup.

Internet users even asked to rename the stadium on the Cross Island and the Governor of St. Petersburg - a petition appeared on the Change.org website with a new version of the name - "Baklan-Arena".

After a comic statement of Igor Albina about the birds in Twitter, an account "Cross Bablan" appeared, which managed almost 1.5 thousand subscribers. Among them - the Vice-Governor himself, as well as the State Duma Deputy Vitaly Milonov.