| On November 15, 2005 Alexey Miller, Gazprom's Management Committee Chairman and Valentina Matviyenko, St. Petersburg's Governor have announced in a common press conference the execution of an international architecture competition for a new football stadium in St. Petersburg.
[phase eins]. compiled the Competition Brief. The competition was carried out by the city of St. Petersburg in own responsibility. |
| Client | Gazprominvestarena LLC, represented through Dr. Leontiy V. Ivanov, General Director
in agreement with
Gazprom OJSC, St. Petersburg, represented through Alexey Borisovich Miller, Chairman of the Management Committee of Gazprom OJSC
and the
City of St. Petersburg, represented through Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko, Governor of St. Petersburg |
| Site | The project site is the old Kirov-Stadium of St. Petersburg, located at the western point of Krestovsky Island - a seeside Island in the heart of the City. |
| Project content | It is intended to build a football stadium with a capacity for 50,000 spectators, accordingly to UEFA standards. |
| Procedure | The competition was organised as a limited, international, single-stage project competition with invited participants. |
| Dates | | Issue of Competition Brief: | January/February 2006 |
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