45 years ago, on August 11, 1979, two Tu-134 planes collided in the sky over Dneprodzerzhinsk. All 178 passengers on board perished. Among them were 17 players and coaching staff members of the Tashkent football club «Pakhtakor,» who were en route to Minsk for a Soviet Union Championship match against «Dinamo». On August 11, a unique memorial match in honor of the «Pakhtakor» players will be held in Minsk. The players and referees will be dressed in retro uniforms from that era, and the posters and invitations will be styled after the Soviet top league championship.

On board the plane were Ravil Agishev, Mikhail An, Olim Ashirov, Sirojiddin Bazarov, Konstantin Bakanov, Yuri Zagumenniy, Shukhrat Ishbutaev, Alexander Korchenov, Nikolai Kulikov, Vladimir Makarov, Sergey Pokatilov, Vladimir Sabirov, Vladimir Fedorov, Viktor Churkin, Idgay Tazetdinov, Mansur Talibdzhanov, and Vladimir Chumakov.

On the day of the tragedy, the veterans of «Pakhtakor» and Minsk «Dinamo» will hold an «Unplayed Match» in memory of what happened. The match will take place at the «Dinamo-Yuni» stadium at 15:30.

Representing the «Pakhtakor» team in the match will be Ahmad Ubaydullaev, Rustam Mirsadykov, Gennadiy Denisov, Marat Kabaev, Igor Shkvirin, Farhod Magomedov, Anatoliy Solovyov, Alexander Zhuravlev, Erkin Vakhidov, Igor Povalyaev, Rinat Fayruzov, Oleg Sinelobov, and Oleg Sabirov.

The «Dinamo» team will be represented by players from the 1979 squad: Eduard Malofeev, Veniamin Arzamastsev, Anatoliy Baidachny, Sergey Borovskiy, Igor Gurinovich, Yuri Trukhan, Igor Belov, Yuri Kurbyko, Viktor Shishkin, Valeriy Shaveyko, Vladimir Kurnev, Georgiy Kondratyev, Valeriy Melnikov, Alexander Alekseychikov, Leonid Vasilevskiy, and Anatoliy Usenko.

As part of the memorial event, a teleconference between Minsk and Tashkent with the veterans of «Pakhtakor» is also planned.

The text has been translated by AI. For more accurate information, please refer to the Russian version of the article.