For clarity, the segment that I am now talking about is on a map of 1915 with a map overlaid on it with the modern numbering of houses, on the right is the former stadium of Young Pioneers.

In part 4, I talked about the 1882 exhibition.
And in the future, Khodynskoe 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 her interiors can be viewed from the respected humus .
The exhibition was opened in honor of the centenary of Empress Catherine II's endowment of independent rights to the artisan class. Such a commemorative token was issued for its opening.

The French trade and industrial exhibition was held here in 1891, it was like a parade of Parisian fashion, and a demonstration of the achievements of technical 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, monograms of the Sovereign Emperor and large medallions with letters RF (Republic of France). Here were the coats of arms of the French provinces and Russian provinces."

The main exposition of the French exhibition was housed in the Central Building, which consisted of eight longitudinal pavilions connected by circular galleries.
The pavilion of the main entrance, the first on the way of the guests, greeted the guests with the subtlest aroma of French perfumery and festive display of works of applied art - majolica, crystal, glass, mirrors, “cupronickel and other silver fakes.” They were complemented by artistic bronze, chandeliers and candelabra.
Another unusual structure - the detached Military Pavilion was erected in the form of an old fortified castle in the Gothic style. The material was wood, but it was painted in natural stone colors and 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 a decoration depicting an artillery battery and a military camp. In other halls, goods from suppliers to 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 has been 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 goods on offer.


Theaters, restaurants and luminous fountains woke up in the evening and lived to full life until one in the morning. Many people then quite sincerely considered the French exhibition ... a park of amusements. Indeed, what else can you call a shady well-groomed park with two theaters, expensive restaurants, an Arab coffee house, a tavern, numerous orchestras and a sprawling scattering of stalls?
Right behind the Central Building, the Omon concert theater grew up (remember, during these years Omon rented a plot next door from the merchant Postnikov), where a “mixed Franco-Russian chanson troupe, gymnasts, animal tamers and other 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 the intervals. They also arranged a buffet and arranged tables for guests.
Another hotbed 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 1400 spectators. Tickets were sold here not only for armchairs in the stalls, but also for individual chairs in boxes, as in France (in Russia, the boxes were redeemed as a whole).
Two main restaurants - Alexandrova and Lomacha(Russian) and Ansara (French) - coexisted in the Central Building.
And one more place of pilgrimage - a small Arab coffee house was remembered by Muscovites for a long time with hot coffee and performances of a troupe of charming dancers.
For ordinary people there was a tavern - "cheap, well, completely Russian folk".
Orchestras played on special stages in the central garden from 5 to 11 pm. 24 kiosks were also installed 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 attraction of the exhibition, its apotheosis - Fontaines Lumineuses! - the luminous fountains worked at 9, 10 and 11 o'clock in the evening, after the pavilions were closed, thus serving only to amuse the public.
The spectacle, at that time, was absolutely new and unprecedented. And therefore, the admiration of the journalist who wrote: “Undoubtedly, they justify the reputation they have created at the Paris World Exhibition, is understandable. When all the pillars of water, rising ten fathoms, scatter in millions of splashes and the water dust swirls in a silvery mist, and from below this whole bulk of water is illuminated by the bright light of molten gold, now by ruby ​​lights, now by light blue and dark blue, the picture is striking in its fantasticness. ... These are some kind of magical halls made of molten precious stones, this is a brilliant fiery fireworks display. The viewer forgets that there is water in front of him, and the more he peers, the stronger the illusion becomes, transferring him to the fairy-tale world. The illumination of the fountains varies with great taste, and the picture is especially beautiful when the side streams are illuminated by side lights, and the middle, main water column shines with matte silver or emerald light of the depths of the sea. The rumors about fountains did not go against the truth. Fountains are above all their descriptions. ”Completely 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 Artisans, 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. The audience was delighted by the pavilions created by projects of architects Karl Alexandrovich Greinert and Vladimir Vasilievich Voeikov.
Many exhibition buildings are empty, and visitors to the exhibition will not have to admire the exhibits, but only the pavilions, sometimes beautiful and stylish ...
The main pavilion is also beautiful, reminiscent of the Yaroslavsky railway station in Moscow. There are also some exhibits here, but the pavilion is far from complete and makes a depressing impression with its emptiness. But at the exhibition a wide place is reserved for the entertainment part ...
The Palace of Fashion and the Factory and Factory, built in the Empire style, are also remembered. "
Main entrance.

The main pavilion.

And further in the magazine "" Among the numerous entertainment establishments, the most prominent place is occupied by the Sukhodolsky Theater. There will be concerts and tours of the capital and visiting artists and artists. "

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 competitions were held here, because back in 1911, the city of Moscow gave the former Tsar's pavilion to the Skiers Club with the condition free lessons 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 shortly SUP for short, began with this institution.
In 1913, 100 m running competitions were held here; here is a snapshot of athletes in 1915 at the skiers 'club (formerly the Tsar's pavilion), and in 1917 the first departure of the Moscow minders' club starts from the same Tsar's pavilion,.
On a website dedicated to the history of the Spartak team, I read the following: “During the First World War, the stadium fell into disrepair, and a gigantic graveyard of broken trams was formed in its place. -tyu RKSM Krasnopresnenskiy district, but it remained unrecovered. 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 track and field tracks, special grounds for certain types of athletics, 4 basketball courts, 4 volleyball courts, a pushball court, for playing croquet, four tennis courts, three concrete grounds for playing in small towns , special equipped places under a canopy for summer wrestling, boxing, kettlebells, kegban, 200-meter shooting range, 500-meter velodrome. But the main object of pride was the stadium's central arena - a football field measuring 85 x 115 meters, bordered by tribunes (at the time of opening, only one was built). Per football matches 13 thousand spectators could simultaneously watch (later the stadium had stands for 8000 people and an embankment where another 15 thousand could sit). This arena still exists today. This is the well-known Young Pioneers Stadium. "
This is how the stadium looked in the photo from 1926.

Ilf and Petrov in "12 Chairs" in the manuscript contains the phrase "Cyclists flew noiselessly from the Tomsk stadium, from the first big intercity match", in later editions instead of "Tomsk stadium" - "Stadium young pioneers".
After Tomsky was ranked among the "oppositionists" in 1929, it was forbidden to mention his name, later the stadium was renamed into the stadium of Young Pioneers and from an adult it turned into a child's.
Hence, in all Soviet guidebooks, 1932 - 1934 is considered the date of the foundation of SJP.
Stadium fence. Photo of 1934 -1937


Unfortunately, there are almost no old photographs of that time.
And in the post-war period of the stadium, the honored coach T.A. Tarasova in her book "The Four Seasons" - "It was always noisy on the SUP and people were running everywhere. Some played volleyball, some played basketball. In winter, the skating rink at the stadium was filled not only for figure skaters, there were paths for skaters along the edges. the skaters were friends - they were on the ice all day and so were we ... Ah, what was already gone now, - you leave the teplushka, large flakes of snow are circling around ... Every evening is a holiday. Music rumbled until midnight, from the neighboring tenants wrote complaints. We couldn't go home. We didn't have enough ice ... "


I have my own history connected with the stadium, no, I have never studied here, in my time there were already stadiums closer to CSKA and Dynamo, but sometimes I was, because also lived on Sokol. And my story is this, once my parents went to the stadium in winter and took me with them, when we got off the tram, they put me on a sled and drove along the fence of the stadium, on some bump I fell and fell out of the sled, but why she didn’t cry, but the parents kept walking, chatting about something cheerfully, and not noticing anything, until a woman walking in the distance shouted “Hey, dad, you lost your child”. This story was recalled so often in my family that I do not know for sure whether I really remember the receding figures of my parents or whether my imagination has already completed it.
In a guide to Moscow for 1975 we read: "From the entrance through the entire stadium there is an alley. To the right of it is a basketball and volleyball sector, to the left is a football field with stands for 7 thousand people, athletics treadmill.


Further, there are gymnastic and acrobatic towns, tennis courts, behind which there is a small athletic field. Next to the courts is the building of the first in the Soviet Union indoor ice rink with artificial ice(1955). You can walk along the alley to the House physical culture, which has a gym and a number of other premises.


In the western sector there is a cycle track, built in 1951. In 1967, it was commissioned here track and field arena.

The stadium is the largest children's sport school, in which more than 2 thousand young athletes at the age of 5-18 are engaged. Many outstanding masters of sports began their journey here: football players, gymnasts, athletes, figure skaters, skiers and others.
The 1989 guidebook informs that SUP received its rebirth in preparation for the 1980 Olympics.On an area of ​​7 hectares, along with traditional structures, a number of unique and different structures appeared: training field covered artificial turf, an asphalt roller track, an athletic arena, a cycle track with stands,

artificial ice skating rink, specialized halls for choreography and gymnastics, chess school and etc.

Continuation.

Other attractions.

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The development company Coaclo, owned by the former shareholder of Metalloinvest Vasily Anisimov, intends to build on Leningradsky Prospekt multifunctional complex"Tsarskaya Square" on 288,500 sq. m, which will include apartments, apartments and all the necessary infrastructure. Information about this is published on the company's website. Managing partner of the consulting company Blackwood Konstantin Kovalev estimates investments in such a project at about $ 430 million.

In 2009, Coalco planned to build a sports and fitness center and a hotel and business complex with a total area of ​​400,000 square meters at the Young Pioneers Stadium. m, but due to the crisis she did not take up the project. A year ago, the City Planning and Land Commission approved a new version of the development of this territory: for the project, called Royal Plaza, it became possible to build already 274,000 sq. m, of which approximately 104,000 sq. m was allocated for offices and the same amount for housing. Now, according to the information on the Coalco website, the company has completely abandoned the construction of offices.

Modest but tall

3% is the increase in housing commissioning 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 commissioned. m of residential premises. Another 11.5 million sq. m under construction

A Coalco employee redirected the Vedomosti correspondent to the MR Group, which manages and develops the developer's assets. Deputy CEO of MR Group Irina Dzyuba said that the company has been consistently cutting office projects in favor of housing for many years. Even the crisis of 2008 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 hold the same position. On the territory of the bakery named after Zotov (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, now the residential complex "Presnya City" is planned for 200,000 sq. m.

: While little people are holding a meeting, the investor is doing a great job: they report that there are no more fences with mosaics on Leningradsky Prospekt. Who knows - is there any hope that the mosaics were dismantled when they were seen in last time? The pylons' application for state preservation was rejected by the Department of Cultural Heritage last July.

UPD - A corner panel with a football player in place, the second pylon was destroyed, a girl with skipping ropes and cyclists. According to unverified rumors, the mosaic has been removed, there are no official comments yet.

In short, if you have money ... no, MONEY (!) And entrances to power - then you can demolish anything, destroy whatever you want and build there shopping malls, elite housing and other most important things in life. Nameless corruption and the Bolsheviks will still be to blame. And Muscovites can calmly keep silent further. Why the heck of their memory, history, science, culture? After all, education and health care were no longer needed - they took away and normally

BE CURSED!

Tatyana Tarasova, the famous figure skating coach, will be remembered as the hottest response to the demolition of the Young Pioneers stadium:

“Was it this place in Moscow that needed to be destroyed? Creatures with no memory, no respect for history hometown, respect for the glorious beginning of our Soviet and Russian Olympic movement! Why can't we protect? Why do we know how to destroy?

This place was prayed for. There was and is a church at the stadium, we did choreography there and prayed for our teachers, who gave us a profession, and we gave others a profession and prayed for our happiness. We lived there, this was our home. These urban aliens are thinking of throwing out our lives and work. They kicked out the fans, broke up and destroyed the children's stadium. Brainless brutes! Temporary workers! Deadly and pests of Moscow!

Tatiana Anatolyevna Tarasova is a coach who has merits to the fatherland. Forgive me for not being able to protect this piece of the Motherland! " - wrote Tarasova in her Facebook.

Stadium history

The first to settle in this place were skiers. The Moscow authorities rented a pavilion trampled by horses to them for little money. It is in this pavilion, at the future stadium of the MKL, the Moscow Skiers Club, that Moscow sports as such will begin to emerge.

Having received the land and the pavilion at their disposal, the skiers began to equip the territory. In the same 1909, a playground, a jumping sector, and a throwing sector appeared here. A year later, the first and only in the whole country a cinder track with a length of 300 meters (then they did not know about the standard of 400 meters). At the same time, athletes, as a rule, ran along the tracks of hippodromes. Of course, the uneven paths, dug by the hooves of horses, did not bring joy and convenience, so the cinder path was a real revolution. A year has passed, and in 1911 the first field in Moscow, specially designed for playing football, appeared. The field and the very stands around.

In March 1923, the MKL stadium complex became the property of the Russian Communist Youth Union (RKSM) of the Krasnopresnensky district of Moscow. But the Komsomol members did not reach the stadium, it was slowly collapsing.

In the second half of the 20s, the Bolshevik government decided to seriously build a system sports clubs: some of them had to be built according to the production principle (the so-called "district circles" disappeared), and some - according to the departmental principle. So the local "Krasnaya Presnya" turned into "Pishcheviki". Full name - Team of the Tomsky Central Club. Actually, the stadium itself was then called the Tomsky Stadium. From the novel by Ilf and Petrov "12 chairs": "Cyclists flew noiselessly from the Tomsk stadium, from the first big long-distance match."

Athletic parade at the Young Pioneers Stadium in 1936

Tomsky Stadium was a real sports center. It consisted of:

3 football fields (one main and two practice fields),

2 track and field tracks,

special areas for certain species athletics,

4 basketball courts,

4 volleyball courts,

pushball court,

croquet court,

4 tennis courts,

3 concrete playgrounds for playing small towns,

specially equipped places under a canopy for summer wrestling, boxing, kettlebell classes,

bowling alley,

two hundred meter shooting range,

five hundred meter velodrome.

Nikolai Starostin in his book "Football Through the Years" spoke about the first matches of the USSR teams with the British, which took place here. Tatyana Tarasova often recalled the past of the famous stadium: there were two skating rinks, and one of them was indoor, with artificial ice. There was enough space for everyone: both figure skaters and skaters.

Surlyas (Track "Young Pioneers Stadium". 1961)

Otto Fischer, the oldest 102-year-old red-and-white fan, says: We lived in the Petrovsky Park area. The Dynamo stadium has not yet been there (it will appear in 1928). But there was a stadium named after Tomsky nearby. It is at this stadium that Spartak, one might say, began. We, boys, played football and hockey there.

Cyclists at the stadium "Young Pioneers"

The Young Pioneers Stadium hosted the 1980 Olympics. Muscovites follow the field hockey tournament

Before the pylons with mosaics, Khrushchev was here

Panel from the side of the 1st Botkinsky passage

The panel from the side of Begovaya Street is still preserved - now it is closely adjacent to the covered pedestrian walkway. As they say, the mosaic will be removed in the near future, the stele will be destroyed

The Moscow authorities finally cleared out the territory on which during the Soviet years the stadium "Young Pioneers" was located, which has a half-century history. The steles with mosaics were the last to be demolished - this is all that remains of the first out-of-school sports institution in the history of the USSR. Now the construction of an elite residential complex is underway 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 panel was dismantled as part of construction work. Back in the 90s, on the Khodynskoye field were built business center and car dealership. Now an elite residential complex is being built in the neighborhood.

Local residents tried to protest against the construction site, held rallies and wrote appeals to the authorities. Developers and local officials promised that they would build a fitness center on this territory, and that the mosaic would be preserved and returned to its original place after the end of construction. 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 “Moscow Spartak” began. “We, boys, played football and hockey there,” said the oldest fan of the red and white Otto Fischer, who is now 102 years old.

In the 60s, the stadium was renovated. Under Soviet rule, 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 a parking lot is located on the site of one mosaic panel with cyclists, runners and a girl with a rope. The second panel with footballers by Martuni Potikyan should be demolished in the near future.

Marina Terekhovich, a member of the Moscow Union of Artists, an expert in the field of monumental and decorative art, told Rossiyskaya Gazeta that the organization had sent a letter to the departments of culture and cultural heritage of Moscow, as well as to the deputies about the mosaics, but there was no response from the officials.

The problem is that there is no law on 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 treats the works of art at his own discretion.

The press service of the Department of Cultural Heritage of the city of Moscow, regarding the demolition of the mosaic, said 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 chilled coach of Russia Tatyana Tarasova. She named those responsible for the demolition "cattle and pests."

Tatiana Tarasova called the Young Pioneers stadium in Moscow a "prayerful place" and a home for teachers and young athletes. “Was it this place in Moscow that needed 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 protect? Why do we know how to destroy? ", - said the honored coach in an interview with the portal" Sports.ru ".

“We lived there, this was our home. These urban aliens are thinking of throwing out our lives and work. They kicked out the fans, broke up and destroyed the children's stadium. Brainless brutes! Temporary workers! Deadly and pests of Moscow! ”, - added Tatiana Tarasova.

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