miner's lamp

A rusty miner’s lamp and a pack of Marlboro Southern Cut cigarettes were strewn on a dirty table.

“It was backbreaking work because we bent over all day, and I was not very good at the beginning. Also I was afraid of the knife. We had to hold a bundle in one hand and use a long knife in the other to at one stroke make it all the same length. We started working at midnight or 1 a.m. with a miner’s lamp on our hats. So it was dark and kind of scary at first.”

“It was backbreaking work because we bent over all day, and I was not very good at the beginning. Also I was afraid of the knife. We had to hold a bundle in one hand and use a long knife in the other to at one stroke make it all the same length. We started working at midnight or 1 a.m. with a miner’s lamp on our hats. So it was dark and kind of scary at first.”

I know that sort of store — it’s the sort where you wish, browsing, you had a miner’s lamp strapped to your forehead.

Each Dynamo player was presented with a commemorative miner's lamp, one of which remains on display in the Moscow club's museum.