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Ornithologist to the Vice-Governor: Cormorants do not gouge the roof of the Zenit Arena. Pecked for cormorants: Igor Albin got it on social networks for his “powerful beak” Jokes about cormorants and the stadium

The statement by the Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin about cormorants spoiling the roof of the stadium gave rise to many jokes and photoshopped images on the Internet. Albin later admitted that he was joking, but the users could not be stopped.

“A third problem has emerged in the country - cormorants,” the bloggers sadly stated. “I heard that when cormorants are not allowed to peck at stadiums, they switch to the roads! And some even peck at the economy!” - responded one of the commentators.




The news did not leave the compilers of Wikipedia indifferent.


Commentators vying with each other began to propose methods of combating harmful birds.

“I wonder if the State Duma will now ban cormorants or the promotion of the cormorant lifestyle?”

“Now they will ask for another ten billion for cormorant-resistant film.”

St. Petersburg poets joined the discussion.

“The cormorant pecked our stadium,”
The big boss said.
And everything that he did not destroy
Destroyed by seagulls.

The metro is not being built? So know this:
The moles are to blame here,
A brigade of evil gray hares
Broken bridges...

Ice appeared on the roofs -
Bullfinches are to blame.
The connecting rod bear in the ceremonial...
(Try to remove it!)

A raccoon ate the paint from the facades,
The asphalt was broken by a wombat.
The culprits are a grizzly bear and a coyote.
And it’s not my fault!”


The “Krestovsky Cormorant” Twitter account was promptly created, which is maintained on behalf of the feathered “scoundrel.” For example, today he promised to help Zenit defeat Utrecht from the Netherlands.


“The whole pack laughs.”

By the way, Igor Albin himself has already subscribed to the Krestovsky Cormorant.


On August 21, the vice-governor of St. Petersburg said in an interview that the reflective film on the roof of the St. Petersburg stadium is pierced by cormorants 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 could there be? It turned out that the bird protection was not working properly. There is such a famous bird - the cormorant, which with its powerful beak destroys the integrity of the film. IN in this case a full-fledged bird protection project is needed, similar to airports,” he explained.

The “cormorant” himself warmly thanked Albin on Twitter.

In a conversation with the publication “Sport Day by Day,” Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin linked the leaks at the St. Petersburg Arena stadium with cormorants. The lieutenant governor said that the bird “with its powerful beak is destroying the integrity of the reflective film” on the roof of the stadium. The statement was ridiculed on social networks, and someone created the “Krestovsky Cormorant” account, where they responded to Albin on behalf of the bird and collected the best jokes on the topic.

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The first reaction to a statement about the malfunction of the stadium is to remember how much money was invested in it and criticize the structure of the country.

Poems and songs were dedicated to the cormorant.

Writer Alexander Tsypkin, like many others, remembered the slang meaning of the word “cormorant” - “a stupid person worthy of contempt.”

Another reason for jokes was that one of the characters in the Russian dubbing 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 response 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 from Devyatkino” account, created after residents of Novy Devyatkino noticed beavers on Okhta in December 2016, also came to discuss cormorants. Some decided that a dam built by animals would help the environment: near the village wastewater they are dumped into the Okhta tributary, from where they end up in the Neva and the Gulf of Finland.

Could cormorants really damage the roof of the stadium? Journalists from The Village talked to ornithologists and found out that cormorants nest mainly on islands and rarely fly into the city. There is no reason for birds to peck at the roof unless they brought their food there.

“We don’t have any birds at all that are capable of destroying the roof of the stadium - neither a crow, nor, especially, a stupid 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 capable of gnawing.”

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Tatyana Mednik, methodologist of the scientific department of the Leningrad Zoo

Ornithologist Rustam Sagitov suggested that birds could only damage the stadium with feces.

The article about cormorants in the Russian Wikipedia has been edited and new data about their habits has been added.

It came to the point of a petition to rename the stadium “Baklan-Arena” instead of “Zenit-Arena”, as it is colloquially called. The offer was posted by the founder of the contract brewery Mager Brewery Sergey Grigoriev.

“Open to the whole world, but closed to the enemy, a working city, a romantic city - St. Petersburg is always inextricably linked with the sea, rivers and canals.

The main stadium of the city is the stadium named after. CM. Kirov - was erected on an island, and native St. Petersburg residents 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 seabirds - gulls and cormorants. And now - the main arena of St. Petersburg stands on an island, and seagulls and cormorants support their home 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””

Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin, in a conversation with reporters, said that cormorants are to blame for the problems with the roof of the St. Petersburg Arena stadium - the official claims that they pierce the reflective film of the building with their beak. Albin’s words quickly became a meme on social networks; the cormorant even had his own Twitter account. Igor Albin in conversation with the publication"Sport day after day"

spoke about the problems of the St. Petersburg Arena. According to the official, the protection against birds does not cope with its task, which is why the reflective film suffers - it is pierced by a cormorant.

- It [reflective film] can withstand an amazing load - up to 400 kilograms per square meter. It would seem, what difficulties could there be? It turned out that the bird protection was not working properly. There is such a famous bird - the cormorant, which with its powerful beak destroys the integrity of the film.

- Do cormorants pierce the film with their beaks?

Albin also cited several other defects in the stadium, but then emphasized that "these are not mistakes." “The facility was built in accordance with the engineering design, but the operation of the stadium reveals nuances, we identify defects and eliminate them,” he said.

Albin’s words about cormorants quickly became a meme on social networks. Apparently, users found the vice-governor’s explanation ridiculous and began to make fun of him.

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

Someone even made changes to the Wikipedia article about cormorants to add information in the “Nutrition” section that the bird can feed on the roof of a stadium.

Later the cormorant appeared

In a conversation with the publication “Sport Day by Day,” Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin linked the leaks at the St. Petersburg Arena stadium with cormorants. The lieutenant governor said that the bird “with its powerful beak is destroying the integrity of the reflective film” on the roof of the stadium. The statement was ridiculed on social networks, and someone created the “Krestovsky Cormorant” account, where they responded to Albin on behalf of the bird and collected the best jokes on the topic.

The first reaction to a statement about the malfunction of the stadium is to remember how much money was invested in it and criticize the structure of the country.

Poems and songs were dedicated to the cormorant.

Writer Alexander Tsypkin, like many others, remembered the slang meaning of the word “cormorant” - “a stupid person worthy of contempt.”

Another reason for jokes was that one of the characters in the Russian dubbing of the cartoon “Beavis and Butt-head” was called a cormorant.

Perhaps the cormorants are fans of some other football team, and this is their response 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 from 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, wastewater is discharged into the Okhta tributary, from where it flows into the Neva and the Gulf of Finland.

Could cormorants really damage the roof of the stadium? Journalists from The Village talked to ornithologists and found out that cormorants nest mainly on islands and rarely fly into the city. There is no reason for birds to peck at the roof unless they 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, especially, a stupid 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 capable of gnawing.
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Tatyana Mednik, methodologist of the scientific department of the Leningrad Zoo

Ornithologist Rustam Sagitov suggested that birds could only damage the stadium with feces.

The article about cormorants in the Russian Wikipedia has been edited and new data about their habits has been added.

Tatyana Mednik, methodologist of the scientific department of the Leningrad Zoo
“Open to the whole world, but closed to the enemy, a working city, a romantic city - St. Petersburg is always inextricably linked with the sea, rivers and canals.
The main stadium of the city is the stadium named after. CM. Kirov - was erected on an island, and native St. Petersburg residents 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 seabirds - gulls and cormorants. And now - the main arena of St. Petersburg stands on an island, and seagulls and cormorants support their home 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.”

The St. Petersburg publication Fontanka has compiled a list of other problems in the city that cormorants are to blame for: garbage in parks, icicles, and broken roads.

In a conversation with the publication “Sport Day by Day,” Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin linked the leaks at the St. Petersburg Arena stadium with cormorants. The lieutenant governor said that the bird “with its powerful beak is destroying the integrity of the reflective film” on the roof of the stadium. The statement was ridiculed on social networks, and someone created the “Krestovsky Cormorant” account, where they responded to Albin on behalf of the bird and collected the best jokes on the topic. The first reaction to a statement about the malfunction of the stadium is to remember how much money was invested in it and criticize the structure of the country.


Poems and songs were dedicated to the cormorant. Writer Alexander Tsypkin, like many others, remembered the slang meaning of the word “cormorant” - “a stupid person worthy of contempt.” Another reason for jokes was that one of the characters in the Russian dubbing of the cartoon “Beavis and Butt-head” was called a cormorant. Perhaps the cormorants are fans of some other football team, and this is their response 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 from 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, wastewater is discharged into the Okhta tributary, from where it flows into the Neva and the Gulf of Finland. Could cormorants really damage the roof of the stadium? Journalists from The Village talked to ornithologists and found out that cormorants nest mainly on islands and rarely fly into the city. There is no reason for birds to peck at the roof unless they brought their food there. We generally don’t have birds that are capable of destroying the roof of a stadium - neither a crow, nor, especially, a stupid 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 capable of gnawing.
​ Tatyana Mednik, methodologist of the scientific department of the Leningrad Zoo Ornithologist Rustam Sagitov suggested that birds can only harm the stadium with feces.
The article about cormorants in the Russian Wikipedia has been edited and new data about their habits has been added. It came to the point of a petition to rename the stadium “Baklan-Arena” instead of “Zenit-Arena”, as it is colloquially called. The offer was posted by the founder of the contract brewery Mager Brewery Sergey Grigoriev. “Open to the whole world, but closed to the enemy, a working city, a romantic city - St. Petersburg is always inextricably linked with the sea, rivers and canals. The main stadium of the city is the stadium named after. CM. Kirov - was erected on an island, and native St. Petersburg residents 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 seabirds - gulls and cormorants. And now - the main arena of St. Petersburg stands on an island, and seagulls and cormorants support their home 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 “Cormorant Arena.” From the petition “Rename the stadium on Krestovsky “Baklan Arena””