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The Complex of
Installations of the Central
Sports Club of the Army
(CSCA)
For the Games of the XXII Olympiad,
two more facilities—an imposing
building of the CSCA Sports Complex
including the football field and trackand-field,
and the CSCA Palace of
Sports—were added to the sports
facilities of the club on Leningrad
Avenue, which included a multipurpose
indoor arena, a stadium with
10,000 seats, an indoor swimming
pool, the Weightlifting Hall, halls for
gymnastics and team sports, as well
as open sports grounds.
The new installations were specially
prepared for Olympic fencing,
wrestling and basketball competitions.
The Sports Complex consists of
two areas —football and athletics fieldhouses—
integrated into a single entity
by a central unit housing gyms
and services.
The building is 306 by 108 metres.
Its height (16 m) is limited by the
presence of a nearby airfield so the
spectator lounge and athletes' quarters
were set up in the basement. A
cafeteria for 200 competitors, an auditorium
with 250 seats, a hall for the
Sports Glory exhibition, and technical
services were also located there.
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The playing field in the football
fieldhouse, 110x60 m in size, was
covered with a synthetic material.
Olympic fencing competitions on 17
metallic pistes were staged there during
the Games.
The athletics fieldhouse, measuring
126 by 84 metres, houses a 200 m
closed-loop track with four lanes and
curves 16 m in radius, a six-lane, 126
m long, straight for the 60 m, 100 m,
and 110 m hurdles, a training walk
course, sections for long jump, pole
vault and high jump. A special area
was set aside for discus and javelin
throwing and for shot put. Four mats
were laid out there on sectional platforms
during the Games for Greco-
Roman and freestyle wrestling competitions.
Both fieldhouses have scoreboards.
In addition to service rooms, the
central six-level unit contains training
halls; one, 48x24 m in size, for teamsports
and the other, measuring 48 by
18 metres, for general fitness exercises.
In the two fieldhouses and the
central block there are also 15x9 m
halls for body building.
Facilities of the Central Sports
Club of the Army
1. CSCA Sports Complex
(football and athletics
fieldhouses)
2. CSCA Sports Palace
3. Parking lot
4. Computer centre
5. Wading pool
6. Central Air Terminal
7. Air Terminal office building
8. Air Terminal hotel
9. Athletes' hostel
10. Dispensary
11. CSCA Tennis Hall
12. CSCA Weightlifting Hall
13. CSCA Ice Palace (multisports
arena)
14. CSCA indoor swimming pool
15. CSCA gyms
16. CSCA office building
17. Leningrad Avenue