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Newly-built sports facilities included:
Indoor Stadium and Swimming
Pool of the Olympiiski Sports
Complex;
Druzhba multipurpose Arena in the
Central Lenin Stadium;
Sports Complex of CSCA (Central
Sports Club of the Army) and the
CSCA Palace of Sports;
Dynamo Palace of Sports in
Khimki-Khovrino;
Olympic Velodrome, the cycling
circuit and archery field in Krylatskoye;
Trade Unions' Equestrian Complex;
Izmailovo Palace of Sports.
The total seating capacity of the
stands at the Moscow Olympic venues
was 350,000.
The Olympic Yachting Centre, consisting
of a harbour, Yachting-Club
and a hotel which served as an Olympic
Village, was completed in Tallinn
in 1979.
The main stadia in Leningrad, Kiev
and Minsk were assigned for Olympic
football tournament matches:
Kirov Stadium in Leningrad;
Republican Stadium in Kiev;
Dynamo Stadium in Minsk.
These underwent substantial modernisation
and renovation during the
preparations for the Games.
In addition, a fifty-km course for
the 100 km cycling team trial was laid
out on the Moscow-Minsk Highway
near Moscow immediately beyond the
city limits. The marathon route and
the twenty- and fifty-km walk routes
followed the streets of the capital and
embankments of the Moskva River.
The start and finish were in the
Grand Arena of the Central Lenin
Stadium.
Forty-nine sports facilities, including
twelve those where Olympic competitions
were to take place, were
selected and prepared for the training
of national teams. They all had convenient
transport connections with the
Olympic Village and competition venues
and had full equipment, sports
implements and other facilities identical
to those used in Olympic competitions.
In addition, the Bitza Park and
woodland near the CSCA Equestrian
Centre in Khimki-Khovrino were used
for cross-country runs.
Apart from the football fields at the
stadia in Leningrad, Kiev and Minsk
where the Olympic football competitions
were staged, additional pitches
were prepared in these cities.
The list of sports facilities, either
built or renovated during the preparations
for the Games and made available
to the sports delegations of
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various NOCs for the athletes' training
is given on page 124.
It should be noted that construction
of sports facilities in Moscow and
other cities continued, as planned,
after the Games. Another multipurpose
arena with stands accommodating
5,500 spectators—the palace of
Sports of the Krylya Sovetov Sports
Society, was completed at the very
end of the 1980 Olympic year in the
western planning zone—the Setun
area—as provided for in the Master
Plan. The Palace can be used for
training and competitions in wrestling,
boxing, basketball, volleyball, handball,
fencing, gymnastics, figure skating
and ice hockey, swimming, and
certain other sports. Some finishing
work was resumed after the Games at
the new Olympic arenas on Peace
Avenue, in Krylatskoye, Bitsa and
others. Additional facilities not needed
for the Games were commissioned
there. For example, a gymnasium
equipped with the latest apparatus
was completed in the Olympic Trade
Unions' Centre in Krylatskoye for the
coming competition season. The
country's best gymnasts have already
tried and highly appraised the new
gymnasium. Lenin Sports and Concert
Complex in Leningrad with stands for
25,000 has been finally completed. It
can be used for many sports, including
ice hockey and football.
Apart from sports installations, a
number of support facilities were built
in Moscow for the Games of the XXII
Olympiad: the Olympic Television and
Radio Centre and the Olympic Communications
Centre in Ostankino, a
building for the Novosti Press Agency,
which was used as the Main Press
Centre for the 1980 Olympics, a building
for the ACS "Olympiad", various
communications facilities and hotels.
A particularly important part of the
Olympic construction was a new residential
area built in the southwest of
Moscow and used as an Olympic
Village during Games of the XXII
Olympiad. Its designers took every
effort to provide the best possible
comfort for the competitors, and
builders implemented this project well
and on time. Some 14,500 Muscovites
have moved into that housing development,
which has retained its
name of Olympic Village after the
Games.
The Chief Construction Department
of the OCOG-80 was responsible for
coordination of the activities of the
ministries, government agencies and
organisations participating in the design
and construction of the Olympic
facilities. The department also monitored
the progress of the design and