diff --git a/Orm/Xtensive.Orm.Tests/Linq/SubqueryFilterCheckerTest.cs b/Orm/Xtensive.Orm.Tests/Linq/SubqueryFilterCheckerTest.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f63eba85d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Orm/Xtensive.Orm.Tests/Linq/SubqueryFilterCheckerTest.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+// Copyright (C) 2026 Xtensive LLC.
+// This code is distributed under MIT license terms.
+// See the License.txt file in the project root for more information.
+
+using System.Linq;
+using NUnit.Framework;
+using Xtensive.Orm.Configuration;
+using Xtensive.Orm.Tests.Linq.SubqueryFilterCheckerTestModel;
+
+namespace Xtensive.Orm.Tests.Linq.SubqueryFilterCheckerTestModel
+{
+  [HierarchyRoot]
+  public class Promotion : Entity
+  {
+    [Field, Key]
+    public long Id { get; private set; }
+
+    [Field(Length = 64)]
+    public string CampainName { get; set; }
+  }
+}
+
+namespace Xtensive.Orm.Tests.Linq
+{
+  /// <summary>
+  /// Regression test for the always-on correctness fix in
+  /// <c>SubqueryFilterRemover.SubqueryFilterChecker</c>.
+  /// <para>
+  /// The legacy checker unconditionally called <c>Pop()</c> on its internal
+  /// <c>meaningfulLefts</c>/<c>meaningfulRights</c> stacks on every null-constant
+  /// comparison it saw. When the checker visited a <c>FilterProvider</c> whose
+  /// predicate started with a bare null-check (e.g. <c>x.Field == null</c>
+  /// inside <c>g.Count(...)</c> after a <c>GroupBy</c> on a scalar key) nothing
+  /// had been pushed onto the stacks first, so <c>Pop()</c> threw
+  /// <c>InvalidOperationException("Stack empty.")</c> during LINQ translation.
+  /// </para>
+  /// </summary>
+  [TestFixture]
+  [Category("Linq")]
+  public sealed class SubqueryFilterCheckerTest : AutoBuildTest
+  {
+    protected override DomainConfiguration BuildConfiguration()
+    {
+      var config = base.BuildConfiguration();
+      config.Types.Register(typeof(Promotion));
+      return config;
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Minimal reproducer for the "Stack empty." crash:
+    /// <c>GroupBy(pk).Select(g =&gt; g.Count(x =&gt; x.NullableField == null))</c>.
+    /// When the grouping key is the entity Id and the <c>Select</c> projects a
+    /// single scalar aggregate, <c>Translator.Queryable.VisitAggregate</c>
+    /// takes the "use grouping <c>AggregateProvider</c>" optimization path and
+    /// runs <see cref="Xtensive.Orm.Linq.Rewriters.SubqueryFilterRemover"/> over
+    /// an origin data source whose top <c>FilterProvider</c> carries the bare
+    /// null-check predicate. With nothing pushed onto the correlation stacks
+    /// yet, the legacy checker did <c>Pop()</c> on empty and crashed.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Test]
+    public void GroupByCountWithBareNullPredicate_DoesNotThrow()
+    {
+      using var session = Domain.OpenSession();
+      using var tx = session.OpenTransaction();
+
+      Assert.DoesNotThrow(() => session.Query.All<Promotion>()
+        .GroupBy(p => p.Id)
+        .Select(g => g.Count(x => x.CampainName == null))
+        .ToArray());
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/Orm/Xtensive.Orm/Orm/Linq/Rewriters/SubqueryFilterRemover.cs b/Orm/Xtensive.Orm/Orm/Linq/Rewriters/SubqueryFilterRemover.cs
index 6a7243a4b..f82a98b2e 100644
--- a/Orm/Xtensive.Orm/Orm/Linq/Rewriters/SubqueryFilterRemover.cs
+++ b/Orm/Xtensive.Orm/Orm/Linq/Rewriters/SubqueryFilterRemover.cs
@@ -57,12 +57,20 @@ protected override BinaryExpression VisitBinary(BinaryExpression b)
           }
           else if (@continue && rightConstant!=null) {
             var rightIsNullValue = rightConstant.Value==null;
-            if (!rightIsNullValue)
+            if (!rightIsNullValue) {
               @continue = false;
+            }
             else {
+              // A bare null-check such as `x.Field == null` may appear in a
+              // FilterProvider predicate that the checker reaches before any
+              // correlation equality has pushed anything onto the stacks
+              // (e.g. `GroupBy(k).Select(g => g.Count(x => x.Field == null))`).
+              // The legacy implementation called Pop() on an empty stack here
+              // and crashed with InvalidOperationException("Stack empty.").
+              // Treat it as "not a subquery-correlation filter" instead.
               var leftIsParameter = leftAccess.Object.NodeType==ExpressionType.Parameter;
-              var onStackValue = (leftIsParameter) ? meaningfulLefts.Pop() : meaningfulRights.Pop();
-              @continue = onStackValue == leftAccess.Object;
+              var stack = leftIsParameter ? meaningfulLefts : meaningfulRights;
+              @continue = stack.TryPop(out var top) && top == leftAccess.Object;
             }
           }
           else {