The Stadion Dynamo imeni
Valeria Lobanovskoho is a multi-functional
stadium
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in
Kyiv
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,
Ukraine
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that is modified for football use only.
It is the home stadium of FC Dynamo Kyiv yet not the main stadium, for which Dynamo uses the bigger National Sports Complex Olympiyskiy, NSC Olympiyskiy. The Dynamo Stadium is also a major alternative stadium for the Ukraine national football team that often plays its exhibition games. The stadium holds 16,873 people, and was built in 1934 as Vsevolod Balitsky Dynamo Stadium by the project of Vasyl Osmak as the central stadium of the Ukrainian SSR Dynamo (Ukraine), Dynamo sports society associated with Joint State Political Directorate, OGPU/NKVD. It was built in the park area next to the NKVD building which is today known as the Budynok Uryadu, Government building.
History
The Dynamo Stadium was built in 1934 during transferring of the Soviet capital from Kharkiv to
Kyiv
Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...
. It was built near the newly erected building that was initially intended as a republican NKVD headquarters in
Kyiv
Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...
(today building of the Government Building, Kiev, Government of Ukraine).
The stadium current name was given in honour of the former Dynamo Kyiv and USSR national football team coach Valeriy Lobanovskyi in 2002, who died on 13 May that year, at age 63.
In January 2014, the square adjoining the stadium's main gate from Hrushevsky Street (Kiev), Hrushevskoho Street became scene of the month-long street battle between attacking activists of the Euromaidan, Euromaidan revolution and police. At several moments, the clashes took place immediately on top of the stadium gate, with at least one rioter filmed being thrown down at the pavement by police officers. The square, the entrance colonnade & stadium fence were completely smoked over by prolonged artificial Tyre (wheel), tyres-fed fire, as well as surrounding street buildings. By 2015, the entrance square was completely restored. The only reminder of the revolution events is an amateur monument erected in the middle of the Hrushevskoho Street driveway opposite the stadium gate. In 2017, new seats were installed as the ground was chosen to host 2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, the final of the 2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League.
Monuments
In 1971, near the stadium was installed a monument of the ''Dynamo'' players involved in the game known in the Soviet historiography as the The Death Match, Death Match and the players who perished in the Eastern Front (World War II), World War II. The sculpture is composed of steel, in which figures of four players are carved using high relief. The architects responsible for the sculpture, ''V. Bogdanovska'' and ''I. Maslenkov'', are well known for designing stations of the Kyiv Metro. The sculptor was ''I. Gorovyi.'' The monument is located by the service entrance to the stadium, so many fans are unable to see it.
On 11 May 2003, before the first anniversary of the death of Valeriy Lobanovskyi, a monument was opened. The famous Coach (sport), coach is sitting on the trainer's bench and is watching a match. The pedestal is a large ball. The total weight is about 5 metric ton, tonnes. The monument was create by a group of nine people led by the architect Vasil Klimenko and the sculptor Vladimir Filatov.
Monument V. V. Lobanovsky. Description
((ref-ru)) The sculpture is located between the stadium and the main entrance to the stadiums.
Gallery
File:Головний вхід до стадіону «Динамо» ім. Валерія Лобановського Київ Грушевського Михайла вул., 3.JPG, The stadium entrance
File:Головний вхід до стадіону "Динамо".jpg, The entrance with a monument to Valeriy Lobanovskyi
Image:Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium.jpg, Stadium panorama (day)
Image:UEFA Cup Semifinal in Kiev (DK vs SD) 192.jpg, Stadium panorama (night)
See also
*Dynamo FC (disambiguation), Dynamo FC
*Dynamo (Ukraine), Ukrainian fitness-sports association
References
External links
Dynamo Stadium
fanat.com.ua amateur site
* Pylypchuk, B.
How comfortable is to attend the UPL games: Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium (FC Olimpik) (Наскільки комфортно ходити на матчі УПЛ: стадіон Динамо ім. Валерія Лобановського (ФК Олімпік))
'. Football 24. 30 March 2017
* Kolomoyets, A.
Kiev Dynamo Stadium is 85 years old! (Київському стадіону «Динамо» – 85 років!)
'. Ukrainian Premier League. 11 June 2018
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Sports venues completed in 1933
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