Young Pioneers Stadium

The Young Pioneers Stadium (Russian: Стадион Юных пионеров) was a sports complex built in the Soviet Union, intended exclusively for children and youth training, the largest in Europe of this kind. It was located in Moscow. First built at the location in 1926 was a football stadium named after Mikhail Tomsky, used by FC Pishcheviki Moscow that had room for 13,000 spectators.[1] Many other sports buildings were built around the stadium as part of a complex from 1932 to 1934 and included two volleyball grounds, five tennis courts, a cycling track, an indoor ice skating rink, as well as several indoor gyms and choreography halls. Besides that, an Indoor Athletics Area was built there in 1968. The site was reconstructed in 1980 to comply with Olympic standards and the football stadium (capacity 5,000) was used as a venue of the field hockey tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics, including the final.[2] After that, the complex was again the seat of the Central Children's Training and Competition Complex with more than 2,000 children regularly practicing sports.

In post-Soviet Russia, when many children's sports schools and sections around the country had been closed, the complex was used primarily for other purposes. It was demolished in 2016 to make way for a church. At the time of its demolition, it is used by the Moscow Youth Football League.

## See also[edit]

* Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization

## References[edit]

1. ^ ФК Спартак Москва - Официальная история - год 1926
2. ^ 1980 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. pp. 80-1.

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Central Lenin Stadium Area|

* Druzhba Multipurpose Arena
* Grand Arena
* Minor Arena
* Sports Palace
* Swimming Pool
* Streets of Moscow

Olympiysky Sports Complex|

* Indoor Stadium
* Swimming Pool

Northwestern Planning Zone|

* CSKA Athletics Fieldhouse
* CSKA Football Fieldhouse
* CSKA Palace of Sports
* Dynamo Central Stadium, Grand Arena
* Dynamo Central Stadium, Minor Arena
* Dynamo Palace of Sports
* Krylatskoye Sports Complex Archery Field
* Krylatskoye Rowing Canal
* Krylatskoye Sports Complex Cycling Circuit
* Krylatskoye Sports Complex Velodrome
* Trade Unions' Equestrian Complex
* Young Pioneers Stadium

Eastern Planning Zone|

* Dynamo Shooting Range
* Izmailovo Sports Palace
* Sokolniki Sports Palace

Football venues|

* Dinamo Stadium (Minsk)
* Kirov Stadium (Leningrad)
* Republican Stadium (Kyiv)

Other venues|

* Moscow-Minsk Highway
* Olympic Regatta in Tallinn
* Izmailovo Hotel

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Olympic venues in field hockey

20th century|

* 1908: White City Stadium
* 1920: Olympisch Stadion
* 1928: Old Stadion
* 1932: Olympic Stadium
* 1936: Hockey Stadion (final), Hockey Stadion #2
* 1948: Empire Stadium (medal matches), Guinness Sports Club, Lyons' Sports Club, Polytechnic Sports Ground
* 1952: Velodrome
* 1956: Eastern Sportsground, Melbourne Cricket Ground (final)
* 1960: Campo Tre Fontane, Olympic Velodrome (final), Stadio dei Marmi
* 1964: Komazawa Hockey Field
* 1968: Municipal Stadium
* 1972: Hockeyanlage
* 1976: Molson Stadium, McGill University
* 1980: Dynamo Central Stadium, Minor Arena; Young Pioneers Stadium (final)
* 1984: Weingart Stadium
* 1988: Seongnam Stadium
* 1992: Estadi Olímpic de Terrassa
* 1996: Clark Atlanta University Stadium, Morris Brown College Stadium (final)

21st century|

* 2000: State Hockey Centre
* 2004: Olympic Hockey Centre
* 2008: Olympic Green Hockey Field
* 2012: Riverbank Arena
* 2016: Olympic Hockey Centre
* 2020: Oi Hockey Stadium
* 2024: Stade Yves-du-Manoir
* 2028: Dignity Health Sports Park

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