In an interview with Sport Day after Day, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin linked leaks at the St. Petersburg Arena stadium to cormorants. The lieutenant governor said that the bird "with its powerful beak destroys the integrity of the reflective film" on the roof of the stadium. In social networks, the statement was ridiculed, and someone created the Krestovsky Cormorant account, where he answered Albin on behalf of the bird and collected the best jokes on the topic.
The first reaction to the statement about the malfunction of the stadium is to remember how much money was invested in it and criticize the country's structure.
Poems and songs were dedicated to the Cormorant.
The writer Alexander Tsypkin, like many others, recalled the slang meaning of the word "cormorant" - "a stupid, contemptible person."
Another reason for the jokes was that one of the characters in the Russian voice acting of the cartoon "Beavis and Butt-head" was called a cormorant.
Perhaps the cormorants are rooting for some other football team, and this is their answer to the enemy.
The author of the sensational quote, Vice Governor Igor Albin, subscribed to the ironic Twitter account "Krestovsky Cormorant".
The author of the “Beaver with Devyatkino” account, created after residents of Novy Devyatkino noticed beavers on Okhta in December 2016, also came to discuss cormorants. Some decided that the dam built by the animals would help the environment: near the village, sewage is discharged into the Okhta tributary, from where it enters the Neva and the Gulf of Finland.
Could cormorants really damage the roof of the stadium? The Village journalists talked to ornithologists and found out that cormorants nest mainly on the islands and rarely fly into the city. There is no need for birds to peck at the roof, unless they have brought their food there.
We don’t have birds at all that are capable of destroying the roof of a stadium - neither a crow, nor even a dumb cormorant (this is a bird of a very low level of intelligence) will do this. Here, unlike Australia, there are no parrots - only they have a beak that can gnaw.
Tatyana Mednik, methodologist of the scientific department of the Leningrad Zoo
Ornithologist Rustam Sagitov suggested that birds could only harm the stadium with feces.
The Russian Wikipedia article on cormorants has been edited to include new data on their habits.
It got to the point of a petition to rename the stadium "Baklan-Arena" instead of "Zenith-Arena", as it is colloquially called. The offer was placed by the founder of contract brewery Mager Brewery Sergey Grigoriev.
“Open to the whole world, but closed to the enemy, a hard-working city, a romantic city - Petersburg is always inextricably linked with the sea, rivers and canals.
The main stadium of the city is the stadium. CM. Kirov - was erected on the island, and native Petersburgers remember the unique sea breeze that came from the Gulf of Finland.
And the referee's whistles and the support of the fans were accompanied by the cries of sea birds - gulls and cormorants. And now - the main arena of St. Petersburg is on the island, and seagulls and cormorants support their native team. In this regard, taking into account the fact that our city is a city of maritime glory, a port city, I propose to give the new stadium the name “Baklan-Arena”.
From the petition “Rename the stadium on Krestovsky to Baklan-Arena”
The St. Petersburg edition of Fontanka has compiled a list of other city problems cormorants are to blame for: garbage in parks, icicles, and broken roads.
Vandal cormorants at the Zenit Arena turned out to be a joke: the Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg, Igor Albin, asked not to be taken seriously when he said that birds were to blame for the leaks at the new stadium. Earlier, the official said that cormorants pierce with their beaks a special film on the roof of the arena. Vladimir Rasulov found out what irony led to.
“I'm glad if someone was amused. But in every joke there is ... a share of a joke, ”the vice-governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin commented on his personal Facebook page about his own words about cormorants, because of which the roof of the Zenit Arena is allegedly leaking.
On Monday, in an interview, the official said that during the operation of the stadium, a problem with the reflective film was identified - according to Albin, cormorants pierce it with their beaks, and therefore the stadium needs a full-fledged bird protection project by analogy with airports. This is despite the fact that the arena on Krestovsky Island began to be built ten years ago, and almost 48 billion rubles have already been spent on it.
Ornithologists immediately doubted the words of the vice-governor. There are no birds in St. Petersburg that could damage the roof of the stadium, Tatyana Mednik, an employee of the scientific department of the Leningrad Zoo, said: “The cormorant is rather small in our country. It can't do any harm, it can't. The beak is adapted only to grab prey underwater. At the stadium, it's not a cormorant at all - it's a herring gull. The seagull also hammers nothing. They can walk around the field, collect earthworms or some kind of beetles, rodents there.
Even Wikipedia reacted to the words of Igor Albin. After the official’s statement, the Russians began to massively edit the article about birds. After information appeared in the text that cormorants living in St. Petersburg eat the roof of a new football stadium, the online encyclopedia limited the ability to edit the material until August 25.
In the meantime, information appeared on the Mash Telegram channel that the stadium management had already ordered a 70,000-ruble cormorant-repellent installation with installation for 30,000 rubles. But it is not worth blaming the city authorities for new spending. The designers of the arena could well have provided for its protection from birds, says engineer Alexander Solovyov: “Any decision, even after the facility has been put into operation, should be determined by construction organizations. An official, like Igor Albin, has the right to comment on this matter. But at other stadiums on the territory of the Russian Federation, I can say from my own experience that such protective mechanisms from birds were not made at any facility. ”
After talking about cormorants-vandals, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin noted that the city turned to a well-known company from France, which will help eliminate all the imperfections of the stadium. It can cost a lot, says sports commentator Gennady Orlov: “Of course, there was no such stadium in our country. This is a unique building, and it will take a long time to complete it. Somewhere two months before the start of the Confederations Cup, the list of finishing touches was official for €5.5 million to be done before the World Cup.”
Internet users even asked the Legislative Assembly and the Governor of St. Petersburg to rename the stadium on Krestovsky Island - a petition appeared on the Change.org website proposing a new version of the name - "Cormorant Arena".
After Igor Albin's humorous statement about birds, the Krestovsky Cormorant account appeared on Twitter, which managed to gain almost 1.5 thousand subscribers. Among them is the vice-governor himself, as well as State Duma deputy Vitaly Milonov.
We learned how much protection from birds costs and we laugh with the whole flock. Ready to fly yourself for half that amount
— Krestovsky cormorant (@zenitbaklan)
In an interview with Sport Day after Day, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin linked leaks at the St. Petersburg Arena stadium to cormorants. The lieutenant governor said that the bird "with its powerful beak destroys the integrity of the reflective film" on the roof of the stadium. In social networks, the statement was ridiculed, and someone created the Krestovsky Cormorant account, where he answered Albin on behalf of the bird and collected the best jokes on the topic. The first reaction to the statement about the malfunction of the stadium is to remember how much money was invested in it and criticize the country's structure.
The cormorant bird with its powerful beak picked up a bag with 25 billion rubles allocated for the repair of the Zenit Arena and flew away in an unknown direction
— Snide news (@_U_R_I_c) August 21, 2017
Poems and songs were dedicated to the Cormorant.The coat of arms of modern Russia is a two-headed cormorant pecking at a leaking roof.
— Ilia Staheev (@staheev) August 22, 2017
— Minister of Panic (@minofpan) August 22, 2017
The Neva flows over the stones,
Splashing muddy shaft;
Angry cormorant crawls on the roof,
Sharpens his dagger.— Gummi Bear (@RealGummiBear) August 22, 2017
The writer Alexander Tsypkin, like many others, recalled the slang meaning of the word "cormorant" - "a stupid, contemptible person." Another reason for the jokes was that one of the characters in the Russian voice acting of the cartoon "Beavis and Butt-head" was called a cormorant.It seems to me sometimes. that cormorants,
From the geyropian seas that arrived,
They huddle in squads, flocks, clans,
To "Zenith" to make it more painful— Minister of Panic (@minofpan) August 22, 2017
Perhaps the cormorants are rooting for some other football team, and this is their answer to the enemy.The cormorant will not peck out the roof of the cormorant
— IrinaKingsize (@irina_kingsize) August 22, 2017
The author of the sensational quote, Vice Governor Igor Albin, subscribed to the ironic Twitter account "Krestovsky Cormorant".Peck the zenith, peck!
— Koalo Pouelho (@gans_genscher) August 22, 2017
The author of the “Beaver with Devyatkino” account, created after residents of Novy Devyatkino noticed beavers on Okhta in December 2016, also came to discuss cormorants. Some decided that the dam built by the animals would help the environment: near the village, sewage is discharged into the Okhta tributary, from where it enters the Neva and the Gulf of Finland.We learned how much protection from birds costs and we laugh with the whole flock. Ready to fly yourself for half that amount
— Krestovsky cormorant (@zenitbaklan) August 22, 2017
Could cormorants really damage the roof of the stadium? The Village journalists talked to ornithologists and found out that cormorants nest mainly on the islands and rarely fly into the city. There is no need for birds to peck at the roof, unless they have brought their food there. We don't have birds at all that can destroy the roof of a stadium - neither a crow, nor even a dumb cormorant (it's a bird of a very low level of intelligence) will do this. Here, unlike Australia, there are no parrots - only they have a beak that can gnaw. Tatyana Mednik, methodologist of the scientific department of the Leningrad Zoo Ornithologist Rustam Sagitov suggested that birds can only harm the stadium with feces.in Novy Devyatkino, comrades gobbled up a pedestrian bridge across the Okhta
and they sew garbage for me!
hold on bro!! pic.twitter.com/4m5vOSl3AV— Beaver from Devyatkino (@Bobr_s_Devyatki) August 22, 2017
The Russian Wikipedia article on cormorants has been edited to include new data on their habits. It got to the point of a petition to rename the stadium "Baklan-Arena" instead of "Zenith-Arena", as it is colloquially called. The offer was placed by the founder of contract brewery Mager Brewery Sergey Grigoriev. “Open to the whole world, but closed to the enemy, a hard-working city, a romantic city - Petersburg is always inextricably linked with the sea, rivers and canals. The main stadium of the city - the stadium. CM. Kirov - was erected on the island, and native Petersburgers remember the unique sea breeze that came from the Gulf of Finland. And the referee's whistles and the support of the fans were accompanied by the cries of sea birds - gulls and cormorants. And now - the main arena of St. Petersburg is on the island, and seagulls and cormorants support their native team. In this regard, taking into account the fact that our city is a city of maritime glory, a port city, I propose to give the new stadium the name “Baklan-Arena”. From the petition “Rename the stadium on Krestovsky to Baklan-Arena” 
The St. Petersburg edition of Fontanka has compiled a list of other city problems cormorants are to blame for: garbage in parks, icicles, and broken roads. 
The statement of the Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin about the cormorants spoiling the roof of the stadium gave rise to many jokes and photoshops on the Web. Albin later admitted that he was joking, but the users could no longer be stopped.
“A third trouble has appeared in the country - cormorants,” the bloggers sadly stated. “I heard that when cormorants are not allowed to peck at stadiums, they switch to roads! And some even peck at the economy!” - answered one of the commentators.
The news did not leave indifferent the compilers of Wikipedia.
Commentators vied with each other to propose methods of dealing with harmful birds.
“I wonder if the State Duma will now ban cormorants or propaganda of the cormorant lifestyle?”
“Now they will ask for another tens of billions for cormorant-resistant film.”
Petersburg poets joined the discussion.
“Cormorant pecked at our stadium, -
The big boss said.
And everything that he did not destroy,
Destroy seagulls.
Metro not being built? So know:
The moles are guilty here,
A brigade of evil gray rabbits
Broken bridges...
Ice appeared on the roofs -
Guilty snowmen.
Bear-connecting rod in the front ...
(Try to take it away!)
A raccoon ate the paint from the facades,
The wombat smashed the asphalt.
The grizzlies and the coyote are guilty.
And I'm not to blame!"
A Twitter account "Krestovsky Cormorant" was promptly created, which is maintained on behalf of the feathered "scoundrel". For example, today he promised to help Zenit beat Utrecht from the Netherlands.
"We laugh with the whole flock."
By the way, Igor Albin himself has already subscribed to Krestovsky Cormorant.
On August 21, the Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg, in an interview that cormorants pierce the reflective film on the roof of the St. Petersburg stadium with their beaks.
“For example, reflective film. It can withstand an amazing load - up to 400 kilograms per square meter. It would seem, what difficulties can there be? It turned out that the bird protection was not working properly. There is such a famous bird - a cormorant, which destroys the integrity of the film with its powerful beak. In this case, a full-fledged bird protection project is needed, by analogy with airports,” he explained.
The "cormorant" himself heartily thanked Albin on Twitter.
In an interview with Sport Day after Day, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin linked leaks at the St. Petersburg Arena stadium to cormorants. The lieutenant governor said that the bird "with its powerful beak destroys the integrity of the reflective film" on the roof of the stadium. In social networks, the statement was ridiculed, and someone created the Krestovsky Cormorant account, where he answered Albin on behalf of the bird and collected the best jokes on the topic.
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The first reaction to the statement about the malfunction of the stadium is to remember how much money was invested in it and criticize the country's structure.
The cormorant bird with its powerful beak picked up a bag with 25 billion rubles allocated for the repair of the Zenit Arena and flew away in an unknown direction
The coat of arms of modern Russia is a two-headed cormorant pecking at a leaking roof.
Poems and songs were dedicated to the Cormorant.
The Neva flows over the stones,
Splashing muddy shaft;
Angry cormorant crawls on the roof,
Sharpens his dagger.
It seems to me sometimes. that cormorants,
From the geyropian seas that arrived,
They huddle in squads, flocks, clans,
To "Zenith" to make it more painful
The writer Alexander Tsypkin, like many others, recalled the slang meaning of the word "cormorant" - "a stupid, contemptible person."
Another reason for the jokes was that one of the characters in the Russian voice acting of the cartoon "Beavis and Butt-head" was called a cormorant.
The cormorant will not peck out the roof of the cormorant
Perhaps the cormorants are rooting for some other football team, and this is their answer to the enemy.
Peck the zenith, peck!
The author of the sensational quote, Vice Governor Igor Albin, subscribed to the ironic Twitter account "Krestovsky Cormorant".
We learned how much protection from birds costs and we laugh with the whole flock. Ready to fly yourself for half that amount
— Krestovsky cormorant (@zenitbaklan) August 22, 2017
The author of the “Beaver with Devyatkino” account, created after residents of Novy Devyatkino noticed beavers on Okhta in December 2016, also came to discuss cormorants. Some decided that the dam built by the animals would help the environment: near the village, sewage is discharged into the Okhta tributary, from where it enters the Neva and the Gulf of Finland.
in Novy Devyatkino, comrades gobbled up a pedestrian bridge across the Okhta
and they sew garbage for me!
hold on bro!! pic.twitter.com/4m5vOSl3AV— Beaver from Devyatkino (@Bobr_s_Devyatki) August 22, 2017
Could cormorants really damage the roof of the stadium? The Village journalists talked to ornithologists and found out that cormorants nest mainly on the islands and rarely fly into the city. There is no need for birds to peck at the roof, unless they have brought their food there.
“We don’t have birds at all that are capable of destroying the roof of a stadium - neither a crow, nor even a dumb cormorant (this is a bird of a very low level of intelligence) will do this. Here, unlike in Australia, there are no parrots - only they have a beak that can gnaw.
Tatyana Mednik, methodologist of the scientific department of the Leningrad Zoo
Ornithologist Rustam Sagitov suggested that birds could only harm the stadium with feces.
The Russian Wikipedia article on cormorants has been edited to include new data on their habits.
It got to the point of a petition to rename the stadium "Baklan-Arena" instead of "Zenith-Arena", as it is colloquially called. The offer was placed by the founder of contract brewery Mager Brewery Sergey Grigoriev.
“Open to the whole world, but closed to the enemy, a hard-working city, a romantic city - Petersburg is always inextricably linked with the sea, rivers and canals.
The main stadium of the city - the stadium. CM. Kirov - was erected on the island, and native Petersburgers remember the unique sea breeze that came from the Gulf of Finland.
And the referee's whistles and the support of the fans were accompanied by the cries of sea birds - gulls and cormorants. And now - the main arena of St. Petersburg is on the island, and seagulls and cormorants support their native team. In this regard, taking into account the fact that our city is a city of maritime glory, a port city, I propose to give the new stadium the name "Baklan-Arena".
From the petition "Rename the stadium on Krestovsky to Baklan-Arena"
