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 Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky (''Russian:'' Михаи́л Па́влович То́мский), born Mikhail Pavlovich Yefremov (''Russian:'' Ефре́мов) (31 October 1880 – 22 August 1936) was a factory worker, trade unionist, and Soviet poli ...

, 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 ice skating rink, as well as several indoor

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s 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 Olympic 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. 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 residential and commercial complex. At the time of its demolition, it is used by the Moscow Youth Football League.

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