  We study the plane wave limit of the Backlund transformations for the
classical string in AdS space times a sphere and obtain an explicit expression
for the local conserved charges. We show that the Pohlmeyer charges become in
the plane wave limit the local integrals of motion of the free massive field.
This fixes the coefficients in the expansion of the anomalous dimension as the
sum of the Pohlmeyer charges.
