Central Dynamo Stadium, Football stadium in Aeroport District, Moscow, Russia
The Central Dynamo Stadium was a football ground in Moscow's Aeroport District, built in 1928 to designs by Arkady Langman and Lazar Cherikover. Its final layout had a 105 by 68 metre natural-grass pitch, four floodlight masts, and an athletics track that circled the field but had fallen out of use. The stadium closed in 2008 and was demolished in 2012; the VTB Arena now stands on the site.
The complex opened in 1928 and served as home ground for one of the oldest sports clubs in the country. During the 1980 Moscow Olympics, several competitions took place here.
The stadium took its name from Dynamo, the sports society founded in 1923 whose teams trained here. Its opening match on 17 August 1928 was commented by Vadim Sinyavsky, later a famous Soviet sports broadcaster, who on 29 May 1929 also gave the USSR's first radio sports report from this field. The stadium was demolished in 2012 and replaced by the VTB Arena.
The stadium stood in the Aeroport District beside the Dinamo metro station, which opened in 1938. Its north entrance carried a monument to goalkeeper Lev Yashin (1929–1990), and VIP boxes sat above the north and south stand entrances. The ground closed for demolition in 2008, with the farewell match played on 22 November 2008; Dynamo Moscow then moved to Arena Khimki.
The stadium hosted Michael Jackson's HIStory World Tour and a Deep Purple concert in 1996. It closed for demolition in 2008, with the farewell match played on 22 November 2008, and was replaced by the VTB Arena on the same spot.
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