Dynamo Stadium - before and after reconstruction

Stadium "Dynamo" in Moscow is known and loved by several generations of football fans. With him are memories of the bright pages and achievements of Soviet and Russian sports. The further destiny of this historical structure can not leave indifferent neither native Muscovites, nor numerous visitors of capital.

From the history of the famous stadium

Stadium "Dynamo" in Moscow - this is certainly more than just a large stadium. This is one of the bright architectural and historical symbols of the past Soviet era. And his age is quite respectable. In 2008, when he was eighty years old, the facility was closed for capital reconstruction. The construction of the stadium "Dynamo" took place in the difficult for the Soviet Union twenties. Its grand opening took place in 1928. For several decades the stadium was the center of sports life in the Soviet Union. First of all, we are talking about football. In an era when there was no television, the whole vast country listened to sports broadcasts on the radio. Famous voice of the football commentator opened the report with the words: "The stadium" Dynamo ", Moscow says ...". Photos of football battles were decorated with the first pages of sports newspapers the next morning. Frequent guests at the stadium were the highest political leadership of the country and the smaller Soviet aristocracy of the nomenclature. With ordinary public these figures preferred not to intersect, special boxes for them were located in the upper part of the central tribune. In 1954, when the grandiose sports complex in Luzhniki was put into operation, the Dynamo stadium lost its status as the largest in the country. But he was not struck out of active sports life.

Architectural features

Initially, the stadium "Dynamo" in terms of a horseshoe, opened in the direction of Petrovsky Park, but after the erection in 1936 of the eastern rostrum acquired a traditional cup stadium for the football stadium. The most expressive in the architectural sense is the facade of the stadium, overlooking the Leningrad Prospekt. It is solved and decorated in the best traditions of the so-called "big style", characteristic of the Soviet architecture of the thirties. Organizational architecture of the stadium "Dynamo" can be traced in the style of the Moscow Metro station of the same name, the ground vestibule of which is located directly in front of its facade. The stadium significantly changed during the preparation for the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. On its territory there was a whole series of auxiliary and administrative buildings, training and sports grounds.

Title team

It would be unfair not to mention that the Dynamo Stadium is a home stadium and one of the main training bases of the famous football team - Moscow's Dynamo. This oldest football club in Russia exists since 1923. He participated in all the football championships of the USSR and on the number of various sports titles and regalia is unrivaled.

Reconstruction of the Dynamo Stadium in Moscow

Currently, the sports arena popular with Muscovites and guests is a very sad sight. Familiar to several generations of football fans the picture of the stadium is equaled to the ground by graders and bulldozers. It is difficult to say - justified the allegations that the current technical infrastructure of the sports complex has developed its resource. But many experts say that this is the case. And in order to create a new stadium "Dynamo", meeting the requirements of the twenty-first century, you must first clear the construction site from the wreckage of the past. Some matches of the World Cup, which is planned to be held in 2018 in Moscow, must pass here. Architecturally, the new sports complex will be a covered stadium, where the Big and Small sports arenas, a number of administrative structures and technical services will be located under the general roof. All this would be just wonderful, and it is necessary to regret only that for the embodiment of grandiose plans in reality it is necessary to part with the usual architectural and historical heritage.