Kaliningrad Stadium

UEFA Kaliningrad Stadium (Russian: Стадион Калининград), known for sponsorship reasons as the Rostec Arena (Russian: Ростех Арена) since August 2023, is a football stadium on Oktyabrsky Island, Kaliningrad, Russia, which hosted four games of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

[2] In April 2012, the regional government chose the French architectural bureau Wilmotte & Associes, SA stadium construction project.

[6] In June 2014 the Omsk Arbitration Court declared "Mostovik" bankrupt and, in March 2015, termination of the contract with the company began.

[7] The state contract was signed between the Government of the Kaliningrad Oblast and Crocus International "to develop the project and working documentation on the design of the stadium".

[9] At first, regional authorities considered the option with the construction of new sports facilities in the city center, on the place of the current Baltika Stadium.

[11] The project was based on the concept of the Allianz Arena Munich, which hosted matches of the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

Aerial photography, May 2017
Rostec Arena in the evening