Baltika Stadium

Baltika Kaliningrad

• Games of FK Baltika Kaliningrad
• Concerts

The stadium Baltika (Russian стадион " Балтика " ) is a multi-purpose stadium in the Russian city of Kaliningrad, the capital of Kaliningrad Oblast. It offers 14,660 spectators to be seated.

The stadium is located at the site of a sports field, which opened in 1892 in what was then Königsberg suburb means hooves and was named after Walter Simon ( 1857-1920 ), a banker and City Council, which had given the area of ​​the city.

The stadium consists of the covered grandstand; the bleachers in the west curve, which consists of twelve individual parts and the uncovered main stand, which in turn consists of three parts and is very flat. The East Stand has only one general admission area. The columns of the stadium input coming from the broken Altstädtischer church.

The floodlight system is based on four tubular steel poles. Behind the Westkurve an older, electronic display board is installed. The spectator stands are equipped with blue plastic seats. The playing field is surrounded by an old career. There are also concerts in the stadium; so the American rock musician Alice Cooper appeared in the Kaliningrad Stadium on July 21, 2008.

There are plans for a new building of a stadium in Kaliningrad. Construction is expected to include 32,000 seats and be started in 2010. As a model for the arena, the Stade de Suisse in Bern is taken.