FOP Izmailovo Stadium
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| FOP Izmailovo Stadium (2018) | |
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| place | ul.Sovetskaya 80 Moscow , Russia
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| Coordinates | 55 ° 47 '49.9 " N , 37 ° 45' 13.8" E |
| start of building | 1934 |
| opening | 1989 |
| Renovations | 2009 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 13,000 seats |
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The FOP Izmailovo stadium ( Russian стадион ФОП Измайлово ) is a football stadium with an athletics facility in the Russian capital Moscow . The Moscow Sports Academy Club has been playing its home games here since the renovation in 2009. The plant is located in the eastern administrative district in the Izmailovo district . In its uncovered stands, it can accommodate around 13,000 spectators. A characteristic of the stadium are the military equipment set up inside, such as gun mounts and a fighter aircraft .
history
At the beginning of the 1930s , plans began in Moscow for a large stadium with a capacity for more than 120,000 spectators. Construction began in 1934 and dragged on until 1939, without the ambitious project being even remotely completed. The inadequate construction progress of the stadium underpins those theories that state that the stadium construction was only a diversionary maneuver for the real reason for the construction work. According to some reports, in the run-up to the approaching Second World War, a spacious bunker for Josef Stalin and other high-ranking personalities of the Soviet Union was built under the stadium grounds, which created various escape routes through underground tunnel systems and was connected to the Moscow Kremlin , among other things .
Neither during nor after the end of the Second World War was the construction of the stadium continued and after Stalin's death in 1953, construction of what is now the city's most important stadium, the Lenin Central Stadium (today the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium ), began. a. both the opening and the final of the 2018 World Cup were played. The rulers only remembered the FOP Izmailowo stadium towards the end of the 1980s , when it was equipped with an athletics facility and in 1989 it was first used for sporting purposes.
Web links
- stadiumdb.com: Stadium FOP Izmailovo (English)
- groundhoppers.blog: Moscow's Forgotten Stadium (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadium FOP Izmailovo - Moskva. In: europlan-online.de. Retrieved July 23, 2018 .
- ↑ FOP Izmailovo Stadium. In: stadiumdb.com. Retrieved July 24, 2018 .