  The universal behaviour of the short-time dynamics of the three state Potts
model in two dimensions at criticality is investigated with Monte Carlo
methods. The initial increase of the order is observed. The new dynamic
exponent $\theta$ as well as exponent $z$ and $\beta/\nu$ are determined. The
measurements are carried out in the very beginning of the time evolution. The
spatial correlation length is found to be very short compared with the lattice
size.
