New Spartak Stadium

Spartak Moscow will finally have its own home. Otkritie Arena will be the second stadium to open in Russia over the past month. As at the Kazan Arena, matches of the 2018 World Cup will be held there.

In Soviet times, Spartak was dubbed the "people's" team, since it was not supervised by any ministry or department. Largely because of this, she never had her own stadium. "Arena" appeared thanks to the perseverance of the chairman of the board of directors of "Spartak" Leonid Fedun. He agreed to allocate land on the site of the Tushino airfield, and also allocated money for construction. The stadium was supposed to be commissioned by 2010, but due to the financial crisis, the deadlines had to be shifted.

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1. On August 27, the technical commissioning of the new stadium took place. On the same day, the Spartak metro station, located on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line between Tushinskaya and Schukinskaya, began work. On September 30, the arena will host the first football match - Spartak veterans will play against each other.

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5. On September 5, the current squad of Spartak will play at the stadium for the first time - against the Serbian team Red Star. The first official match of the championship of Russia against "Torpedo" will be held at the "Opening" in another week.

6. The stadium will actually have two names. Otkritie Bank paid more than a billion rubles for the stadium to be named after him for six years. However, FIFA and UEFA rules prohibit arenas from having a sponsored name, so during the 2018 World Cup and European Cups, the stadium will continue to be called Spartak.

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9. For the World Cup, the stadium will be slightly redone: the press box will be expanded and the total capacity will be increased to 46,000. According to Oleksandr Shishlo, Chief Construction Engineer of Otkritie Arena, by 2018 training fields, a new Spartak base, an indoor arena with artificial turf for 12,000 people, which will be transformed into a multifunctional complex, as well as an ice palace, will appear near the stadium. a tennis school, a water sports palace and two hotels, one of which will be for athletes only.

10. Since stadium seats are often turned into fans' weapons, representatives of the Spartak fan club were invited to test 30 samples. Choose the most reliable one. Alexander Shishlo is sure that it is impossible to pull out the installed chairs. An anti-vandal mesh with a cell of 100 by 100 millimeters will also be hung in the northern, southern and eastern sectors. The object will not fly there, and it will not interfere with viewing.

11. The stadium is equipped with 50 VIP boxes. Everything is according to a standard project: with a kitchen, a dressing room and an office. Here you can not only watch football, but also make an office. 70% of the boxes for the current season have already been purchased. Their owners have the right to carry out repairs there to their liking.

The press box has a capacity of 150 seats and is divided into two parts. One on the central stand, the other on the side. There are also three filming locations and 18 commentator positions. During the World Cup, part of the seats on the central stand will be converted for journalists.

12. Hall for press conferences.

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16. The Spartak museum will soon open on the fourth floor of the stadium. It is planned to open a store with branded attributes.

17. The stadium has four dressing rooms, two of which are for domestic matches. Spartakovskaya is a little more comfortable than the guest one. They are connected to each other by a small artificial turf field where you can warm up before the match. Two more are completely identical - for international matches.

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22. Several food courts were organized in all stands. Their number was calculated so that there were no queues. Paying in cash here will not work - you will need to get a special card. There are several car parks behind the south stand. Because of this, there will be two types of tickets and subscriptions - with and without parking.

23. Until the stadium acquires additional infrastructure, the Spartak station will operate only for exits and only on match days. It will be possible to leave after the event from the Tushinskaya metro station, by land transport or by train.

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