🏛 Gazprom Arena

Футбольная аллея, 1

A huge stadium with a retractable roof and eight supports at the western tip of Krestovsky Island.

The “Spaceship” design by the Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa won the competition in 2006.
The stadium stands on the site of the Kirov Stadium (1932–1950), demolished in 2006.
It was built from 2007 to 2016, and the budget over that time grew from 6.7 to 43.8 billion rubles.
The football pitch rolls out: the 9,840 m² of turf weighs about 7,000 tonnes.
The height to the roof is 75 m, and with the pylons 110 m.
On 16 December 2018 the Russia–Finland hockey match drew, according to the organisers, 81,000 spectators here — a European hockey record.
Matches of the 2017 Confederations Cup, the 2018 World Cup and Euro 2020, held in 2021, were played here.

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