ABOUT THE AUTHOR A historian and philologist by training, he worked as a school teacher for 25 years. Has been involved in football statistics since 1946. Since 1991 - in the weekly Football. Since 1999 - columnist for the weekly Sport-Express Football and the newspaper Sport-Express.

ABSTRACTThe author of a book about the fate of the talented football player Eduard Streltsov puts forward his own version of the tragic events in the life of the athlete and the subsequent imprisonment, supporting its exact facts, evidence and excerpts from court records and newspaper publications of those years.