The Death Match is a name for an exhibition association football game in the summer of 1942 between the team of a local bakery employees "Start" — former professional footballers from Dynamo Kyiv and Lokomotyv Kyiv — and soldiers of air defense artillery, pilots and airfield support personnel "Flakelf"
The Soviet footballers defeated the Germans and, according to the players, on 18 August ten of the players were sent to a German concentration camp. Later six escaped and four were killed.