What happened to the Soviet mosaics of the stadium of young pioneers. With pioneer greetings
The development company Coaclo, owned by the former shareholder of Metalloinvest Vasily Anisimov, intends to build a multifunctional complex "Tsarskaya Ploshchad" on Leningradsky Prospekt for 288,500 square meters. m, which will include apartments, apartments and all the necessary infrastructure. Information about this is published on the company's website. Konstantin Kovalev, managing partner of Blackwood consulting company, estimates investments in such a project at about $430 million.
In 2009, Coalco planned to build a young pioneers a sports and health center and a hotel and business complex with a total area of 400,000 sq. m, but because of the crisis did not take up the project. A year ago, the Town Planning and Land Commission approved a new development option for this territory: under the project, called Royal Plaza, it became possible to build 274,000 sq. m. m, of which approximately 104,000 sq. m was allocated for offices and the same amount for housing. Now, as follows from the information on the Coalco website, the company has completely abandoned the construction of offices.
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3% as much increased housing construction in Moscow in January - September 2015 compared to the same period last year, according to the city government. For nine months, 2.404 million square meters were put into operation. m of residential premises. About 11.5 million sq. m under construction
A Coalco employee redirected the Vedomosti correspondent to MR Group, which manages and develops the developer's assets. Deputy General Director of MR Group Irina Dzyuba said that the company has been consistently reducing office projects in favor of housing for many years. Even the 2008 crisis showed that the market does not need a lot of office space within one project, so MR Group revised the concept of a number of objects, she says. For example, in the Vodny project, she decided to focus on the construction of a shopping center, housing and offices, and in Fili Grad, on a residential area with office and retail components. Coalco seems to be taking the same position. On the territory of the bakery Zotov (the intersection of Presnensky Val and Khodynskaya Street), where the company wanted to build an office and residential center "Crystal Towers" with an area of 168,000 sq. m, the residential complex "Presnya City" is currently planned for 200,000 sq. m.
For clarity, the segment that I am now talking about is on the map of 1915 with a map overlaying it with modern house numbering, on the right is the former Young Pioneers stadium.
In the 4th part, I told about the exhibition of 1882.
And in the future Khodynka field was known for its exhibitions.
In 1885, a handicraft exhibition was held here, it was held in the pavilions of the 1882 exhibition. 
Inner space.
Other photos with its interiors can be viewed from a respected humus
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The exhibition was opened in honor of the centenary of the Empress Catherine II granting independent rights to the handicraft class. A commemorative token was issued for its opening.
The French trade and industrial exhibition was held here in 1891, it looked like a Parisian fashion parade, a demonstration of technological progress, and a concert venue.
Here are excerpts from A. Belyanovsky's article "The main entrance to the exhibition was decorated with many Russian and French flags, images of Russian eagles, the monograms of the Sovereign Emperor and large medallions with the letters RF (Republic of France). There were also coats of arms of the French provinces and Russian provinces.
The main exposition of the French Exhibition was located in the Central Building, which consisted of eight longitudinal pavilions connected by circular galleries.
The pavilion of the main entrance, the first one on the way, greeted guests with the finest aroma of French perfumery and a festive display of works of applied art - majolica, crystal, glass, mirrors, "cupronickel and other silver imitations." They were complemented by artistic bronze, chandeliers and candelabra.
Another unusual building - a detached military pavilion was erected in the form of an old fortified castle in the Gothic style. The material was wood, but thanks to the coloring in the colors of natural stone, it gave the impression of a solid stone building. There were several rooms inside. The main hall, which occupied half the volume, was filled with stuffed horses and dummies of French soldiers and officers of various branches of the military. The walls were hidden under decoration depicting an artillery battery and a military camp. In other halls, goods from suppliers of the French army were exhibited.
The building of the Imperial Pavilion was intended exclusively for the recreation of the August Family. Built back in 1882 for the All-Russian Exhibition, it was completely renovated and restored. Furniture, carpets, curtains and decorations were delivered by French exhibitors, which undoubtedly added to their reputation and served as a good advertisement for the products offered. 
Theaters, restaurants and luminous fountains woke up in the evening and lived full life until midnight. Many then quite sincerely considered the French Exhibition ... an amusement park. Indeed, what else to call a shady well-kept park with two theatres, expensive restaurants, an Arabic coffee shop, a tavern, numerous orchestras and a wide spread of shopping stalls?
Directly behind the Central Building, the Omon Concert Theater grew up (I remind you that during these years Omon rented a plot in the neighborhood, from the merchant Postnikov,), where “a mixed Franco-Russian chansonnet troupe, gymnasts, animal tamers and various similar entertainers gave performances three times a day. On three sides, the building was surrounded by a wide terrace, where a military band played during intermissions. There they arranged a buffet and arranged tables for guests.
Another center of art - the Lotomba operetta theater was located inside the Central Building. It was built on two floors, had three tiers of boxes and accommodated 1,400 spectators. Tickets were sold here not only for chairs in the stalls, but also for individual chairs in the boxes, as in France (in Russia, the boxes were redeemed as a whole).
Two main restaurants - Alexandrov and Lomacha(Russian) and Ansara (French) - side by side in the Central Building.
And one more place of pilgrimage - a small Arabic coffee house for a long time was remembered by Muscovites for hot coffee and performances of a troupe of charming dancers.
For ordinary people, a tavern worked - "cheap, well, completely Russian folk."
Orchestras played on special stages in the central garden from 5 to 11 pm. 24 kiosks were also set up here, leasing them to entrepreneurs for the sale of flowers, fruits, tobacco and fruit water. Only one of them sold newspapers and magazines.
The main attraction and lure of the exhibition, its apotheosis - Fontaines Lumineuses! - luminous fountains worked at 9, 10 and 11 o'clock in the evening, after the closing of the pavilions, thus serving only the amusement of the public.
The spectacle, at that time, was completely new and unprecedented. And therefore, the admiration of the journalist who wrote: “Undoubtedly, they justify the reputation he created in the Parisian world exhibition. When all the columns of water, rising ten sazhens, crumble into millions of sprays and the water dust swirls in a silvery fog, and from below all this bulk of water is illuminated either by the bright light of molten gold, then by ruby lights, then by pale blue and dark blue, the picture is striking in its fantasticness. . These are some kind of magical halls of molten precious stones, this is a brilliant fiery firework. The viewer forgets that there is water in front of him, and the more he peers, the stronger the illusion becomes, transferring him to a fairy-tale world. The lighting of the fountains varies with great taste, and the picture is especially beautiful when the side jets are illuminated by side lights, and the middle, main water column casts with matte silver or emerald light of the deep sea. Rumors about fountains did not sin against the truth. Fountains are above all their descriptions. "Full article.
In 1914, a factory and craft exhibition was opened at this place. New pavilions have already been built for it. General form.
The Iskra magazine wrote in 1914: “It was arranged by the Mutually Auxiliary Society of Craftsmen, founded in 1875. Still, the exhibition is not quite finished yet and has not been put in order, and therefore does not give the necessary completeness of the impression. architects' projects Karl Alexandrovich Greinert And Vladimir Vasilievich Voeikov.
Many exhibition buildings are empty, and visitors to the exhibition will have to admire not the exhibits, but only the pavilions, sometimes beautiful and stylish...
The main pavilion, reminiscent of the Yaroslavl railway station in Moscow, is also beautiful. There are also some exhibits here, but the pavilion is far from being full and its emptiness makes a depressing impression. But the exhibition has a wide place for the entertainment part ....
The Palace of Fashion and the Factory, built in the Empire style, are also remembered.
Main entrance.
main pavilion.
And further in the magazine "" Among the many places of entertainment, the Sukhodolsky Theater occupies the most prominent place. There will be concerts and tours of capital and visiting artists and actresses.
In 1916, they were going to open a huge All-Russian exhibition, but other times came and this idea was not destined to come true.
Already before the revolution, in the intervals between exhibitions, the first sports, because Back in 1911, the city of Moscow gave the former Tsar's Pavilion to the Ski Club with the condition free classes with children in winter. In the same year, the first specialized football ground in Russia was built here. The history of the Young Pioneers Stadium, or SUP for short, began with this institution.
In 1913, 100-meter running competitions were held here; here is a snapshot of athletes in 1915 at the ski club (the former Tsar's pavilion), and in 1917 the first departure of the club of Moscow minders starts from the same Tsar's pavilion,.
On the site dedicated to the history of the Spartak team, I read the following: “During the 1st World War, the stadium fell into disrepair, and a giant cemetery of broken trams formed in its place. In March 1923, the MKL stadium (Moscow ski club) became the property of - Tyu RKSM Krasnopresnensky district, but was never restored. Grandiose in scale work began in April 1926. And by July new arena, the largest at that time in the USSR, was built, having received the name - the stadium named after the Tomsk Union of Food Workers. (MP Tomsky at that time served as chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions).
The complex, when it was completed, included: three football fields(main and two training), two athletics tracks, special areas for certain types of track and field athletics, 4 basketball courts, 4 volleyball courts, a pushball court, for playing croquet, four tennis courts, three concrete playgrounds for playing gorodki , specially equipped places under a canopy for summer wrestling, boxing, kettlebells, a kegel alley, a 200-meter shooting range, a 500-meter velodrome. But the main subject of pride was central arena stadium - a football field measuring 85 by 115 meters, bordered by three-bunes (only one was built at the time of opening). Behind football matches 13,000 spectators could simultaneously observe (later the stadium had stands for 8,000 people and an embankment where another 15,000 could sit). This arena still exists today. This is for everyone famous Stadium Young Pioneers.
This is what the stadium looked like in a 1926 photo.
Ilf and Petrov in "12 Chairs" in the manuscript contains the phrase "Cyclists flew noiselessly from the Tomsk stadium, from the first big long-distance match", in later editions instead of "Tomsk stadium" - "Young Pioneers Stadium".
After classifying Tomsky as an "oppositionist" in 1929, it was forbidden to mention his name, later the stadium was renamed the Young Pioneers Stadium and from an adult it turned into a children's one.
Hence, in all Soviet guidebooks, the date of foundation of the SUP is considered to be 1932 - 1934.
Stadium fence. Photo 1934 -1937 
Unfortunately, there are almost no old photographs of that time.
And the post-war period of the stadium was wonderfully written by the honored coach T.A. Tarasova in her book "The Four Seasons" - "It was always noisy at the SUP and people were running everywhere. Who plays volleyball, who plays basketball. In winter, the skating rink at the stadium was flooded not only for figure skaters, tracks for skaters were laid along the edges. With skaters the skaters were friends—they spent the whole day on the ice, and so did we... Ah, now it’s not what it used to be—you get out of the car, large flakes of snow swirl around... Every evening is a holiday. residents wrote complaints. We couldn’t go home. We didn’t have enough ice ... " 
I have my own history with the stadium, no, I have never trained here, in my time there were already stadiums closer to CSKA and Dynamo, but sometimes I visited, because. also lived on Sokol. And my story is this, somehow my parents went to the stadium in the winter and took me with them, when we got off the tram, they put me on a sled and drove along the stadium fence, on some bump I fell off and fell out of the sled, but why - she didn’t cry, but the parents continued to walk, chatting about something merrily, and not noticing anything, until a woman walking in the distance shouted, “Hey, dad, you lost your child.” This story was so often recalled in my family that I don’t know for sure whether I really remember the receding figures of my parents or if my imagination has already completed it.
In a guide to Moscow for 1975, we read: “From the entrance, an alley leads through the entire stadium. To the right of it is the basketball and volleyball sector, to the left is a football field with stands for 7 thousand people, athletics sectors and treadmill.
Next are the gymnastic and acrobatic towns, tennis courts, behind which is a small athletic field. Next to the courts - the building of the first in the Soviet Union indoor ice rink with artificial ice (1955). Along the alley you can go to the House physical education, which has a gym and a number of other facilities. 
In the western sector there is a cycle track built in 1951. In 1967, a athletics arena.
The stadium is the largest children's sport school, in which more than 2 thousand young athletes aged 5-18 years old are involved. Many outstanding masters of sports began their journey here: football players, gymnasts, athletes, figure skaters, skiers and others.
The guidebook of 1989 reports that the SUP received a rebirth during the preparation for the 1980 Olympics. On the territory of 7 hectares, along with traditional structures, a number of unique and different structures appeared: a training field covered with artificial turf, an asphalt roller track, an athletics arena, a cycle track with stands,
ice rink artificial ice, specialized halls of choreography and gymnastics, chess school and etc.
Continuation.
Other attractions.
Materials used:
Ice rink area: 10000 m2. Skating rink The Young Pioneers Stadium in Moscow is a winter open skating rink with all amenities. Have fun skating with friends and family, for hockey fans there will also be a hobby for them - play hockey in a hockey box. For beginners or those who get on the ice for the first time professional trainers teach figure skating. For your convenience, there are cloakroom, skate rental and sharpening services.
Schedule
Monday - Friday from 16:00 to 23:00.
Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 11:00 to 23:00.
Ticket offices close 30 minutes before the end of the rink.
Prices
Entrance ticket price:
Monday - Friday: adults - 150 rubles, children (under 10 years old) - 50 rubles;
Saturday, Sunday and holidays: adults - 300 rubles, children (under 10 years old) - 100 rubles.
Services:
Skate rental: 150 rubles.
Skate sharpening: 250 rubles
Renting an assistant figure skater: 250 rubles.
Hockey stick with a puck: 150 rubles.
Wardrobe: 50 rubles.
Additionally
Warm locker rooms, parking, cafes.
School of figure skating and hockey
The ice rink has a dedicated area for playing hockey.
The Moscow authorities have finally cleared the territory where the Young Pioneers stadium, which has a half-century history, was located in the Soviet years. The last to be demolished were steles with mosaics - this is all that remains of the first out-of-school institution in the history of the USSR sports institution. Now a luxury residential complex is being built on this site.
On May 13, workers removed a mosaic by sculptor Elvira Zhernosek from the fence of the former Young Pioneers stadium on Leningradsky Prospekt. The dismantling of the panel was carried out as part of the construction work. Back in the 90s, a business center and a car dealership were built on Khodynskoye Pole. Now an elite residential complex is being built next door.
Local residents tried to protest against the construction, held rallies and wrote appeals to the authorities. Developers and local officials promised that they would build a sports and recreation complex on this territory, and the mosaic would be preserved and returned to its original place after the construction was completed. Muscovites do not believe in this promise and note that it is impossible to restore the author's work.
The stadium "Young Pioneers" was the first specialized sports out-of-school institution in the USSR. It was erected on the site of the Tomsky stadium, where football was played in post-revolutionary Moscow. Old-timers say that it was there that "the Moscow Spartak began." “We, boys, played football and bandy there,” said Otto Fischer, the oldest fan of the red-and-whites, who is now 102 years old.
In the 1960s the stadium was renovated. Under the Soviet regime, an athletics arena was built there and two mosaic panels were installed. At the 1980 Olympics, the stadium hosted field hockey competitions. Now a high-rise building is being built on this historic site, and instead of one mosaic panel with cyclists, runners and a girl with a jump rope, there is a parking lot. The second panel with football players by Martuni Potikyan should be demolished in the near future.
A member of the Moscow Union of Artists, a specialist in the field of monumental and decorative art, Marina Terekhovich, in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, said that the organization sent a letter to the departments of culture and cultural heritage of Moscow, as well as to deputies about mosaics, but there was no response from officials.
The problem is that there is no law for the preservation of such monuments, and when new owners buy land, they are not informed that this is a work of art. As a result, the owner acts with works of art at his own discretion.
The press service of the Department of Cultural Heritage of the City of Moscow said about the demolition of the mosaic that it is not an object of cultural heritage and "there is nothing to comment on."
The destruction of the mosaic of the stadium "Young Pioneers" caused indignation among the tired coach of Russia Tatyana Tarasova. She called those responsible for the demolition "cattle and pests."
Tatyana Tarasova called the Young Pioneers Stadium in Moscow a “place of worship” and a home for teachers and young athletes. “It was this place in Moscow that had to be destroyed? Creatures that have no memory, no respect for the history of their native city, respect for the glorious beginning of our Soviet and Russian Olympic Movement! Why can't we save? Why do we know how to destroy? ”, - said the honored coach in an interview with the Sports.ru portal.
“We lived there, it was our home. These urban aliens are thinking of throwing away our lives and jobs. Kicked out the fans, smashed and destroyed children's stadium. Brainless cattle! Temporary workers! Bastards and pests of Moscow!” added Tatyana Tarasova.
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