Химик, Football stadium in Novomoskovsk, Russia
Khimik Stadium is a football venue in Novomoskovsk with a heated artificial turf field and two covered spectator stands. The playing surface measures 105 by 68 meters and can seat approximately 5,200 people.
The stadium opened in 1954 and was renamed Shakhtyor until 1970, then Don in the 1990s and early 2000s. A 1995–1997 reconstruction made it football-only, with plastic seats, canopies and a second stand; it reopened on 9 August 1997. On 11 August 2012 it reopened after a sixth-generation artificial pitch with under-soil heating was installed.
The stadium's record crowd of 17,000 came on 20 August 1961, when the local team, then representing Stalinogorsk, beat Moscow Dynamo 2:0 to reach the USSR Cup quarter-finals. The club had moved here in 1958 from Bobrik-Donskoy.
The stadium stands on the town's edge, bordering a park, at Sadovskogo Street 52 in Novomoskovsk, Tula Oblast. The address is also given in full as 301650, Russia, Tula Oblast, Novomoskovsk, Sadovskogo Street 52. The ground is a football-only facility, so the pitch is not open for general recreation.
On 20 July 1958 the stadium hosted its first international match, when the local side beat Rakovski, a Bulgarian team representing the Dimitrovgrad chemical plant, 2:0. The ground had become the home of the town's senior team that same year, after the club previously played its matches in Bobrik-Donskoy.
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