RZD Arena, Preobrazhenskoye, Moscow, Russia

            In 1935, the 30,000-capacity Stalinets ('Stalinist') Stadium was built here on the north-eastern outskirts of Moscow, on behalf of an electric workers' union. It, and its home football club Lokomotiv Moscow, were rather successful, so the original building was demolished in favour of the more modern Lokomotiv Stadium, which opened in 1966.
That in turn was replaced by the current building in 2002; an international-style, dedicated football stadium, without an athletics track. The capacity is 27,320, all seated, in glass-roofed stands; the nearest is the South Stand, 1.4 km away.

I suspect it's still known as Lokomotiv Stadium, but as rebuilding was funded by the Russian Transportation Ministry, it's formally the 'Russian Railways Arena'.

This is the view north-north-west from the Izmailovo Vega Hotel, past the stadium to the chimneys of the Tets-27 Severnaya combined heat and power station 14.4 km away on the edge of built-up Moscow.

I forget which floor we occupied, but this is part of a high rise hotel complex 14.6 km east of the Kremlin, comprising four huge blocks: Al'fa, Beta, Gamma-Delta/Gamma (one double-size block) and, here, Vega. Collectively it's the largest hotel in Europe (and the world's largest 1980–93), with 5,000 rooms.
As the name suggests, it lies at the edge of the forested Izmailovo Estate, the undeveloped core of the Romanov imperial family's lands; the Izmailovo Court of Tsar Alexis, a wooden palace on an artificial island, is ~750 m away.
   

Taken in: Russia / Moscow Federal City / Moscow / Sokolinaya Gora (show map)

Taken on: October 22, 2012

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