"How can I help the lads?" Viktor Klyuevwondered as he paced up and down the airport waiting room. The summons to draw up competition results which had come overnight from Volgograd from his friend and rival in competition Aleksandr Po~dnyakov worried him (according to the preliminary figures the Volgograd men were falling behind), and also made him recall the days when Sasha came to Moscow. Then the Moscow men needed to solve many difficult problems (completion of the obligations was threatened), and Pozdnyakov had helped them greatly. Now it was for Klyuev to hurry to the rescue.