The Young Pioneers Stadium () was a sports complex built in the

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, intended exclusively for children and youth training, the largest in Europe of this kind. It was located in

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. 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.ФК Спартак Москва - Официальная история - год 1926
/ref> Many other sports buildings were built around the stadium as part of a complex from 1932 to 1934 and included two

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grounds, five

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s, a cycling track, an indoor

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, as well as several indoor gyms and

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halls. Besides that, an ''Indoor Athletics Area'' was built there in 1968. The site was reconstructed in 1980 to comply with

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standards and the football stadium (capacity 5,000) was used as a venue of the field hockey tournament at the

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, including the final.1980 Summer Olympics official report.
Volume 2. Part 1. pp. 80-1. 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

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, 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.

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