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Olympiiski Sports Complex
The sports complex off Peace Avenue
is the largest installation erected
in Moscow in recent years. It integrates
an indoor arena and an indoor
swimming pool by means of a common
podium.
The indoor stadium and swimming
pool cover an area of 20 hectares
between Shchepkin and Durov Streets
and the new thoroughfares—Olympic
Avenue and Samarsky Lane.
The main flow of spectators arriving
at the Complex comes from the
Prospekt Mira Metro Station.
The topography of the terrain (11metre
an gradient) was utilised to
organise two levels of traffic: the
upper level for pedestrians and the
lower one for vehicles, served by a
parking lot with space for 2,800 cars.
Service and administration zones located
in the podium were accessible
from the lower level.
As the spectators approach the
Complex, they are divided into two
65
flows: one to the indoor stadium and
the other to the swimming pool.
Groups of arriving competitors are
divided in the same way. A system of
ramps and exterior staircases gives
the spectators access to the upper
level of the podium, where entrances
to the stands are positioned. The
stands' tiers are interconnected by
escalators and staircases. The competitors
reach locker rooms, training
halls and other quarters of the
stadium and swimming pool by entrances
reserved for them at the lower
level of the podium. They have access
to the competition arena or to the
pool from those rooms without having
to pass through public areas.
Separate entrances were provided
for technical officials and members of
the press.
Many technical and engineering
service systems of the stadium and
swimming pool were made common
for better efficiency and maintenance.
General view of the Olympiiski
Sports Complex near Mir
Avenue