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- This vast stadium was built in just one year before completion in 1956. It stands as the centrepiece of the Luzhniki sports complex, a 160-hectare site sitting next to the Moskva river and incorporating facilities for swimming, figure skating, tennis, gymnastics and football. The stadium itself has a retractable transparent roof and can seat a sizeable 86,000 spectators. The stadium does not have the most glorious of histories, being the location of Europe's most deadly stadium tragedy - in 1982 nearly 350 Spartak Moscow fans perished in a mass crush during a UEFA cup match. Note the large statue of Lenin standing before the stadium. For many the communist name of 'Lenin Stadium' still stands.
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- Moscow, Moscow 119270
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