The laying of the new lawn on the "Zenith Arena" ended. Screenshots of the updated field spread throughout the Internet.

Today, work on laying a new lawn on Zenit Arena was completed. We bring to your attention the most popular photos from the Internet.

New lawn on Zenit Arena

New lawn for Zenith Arena (photo 2)
New lawn for Zenith Arena (photo 3)

The lawn for Zenit Arena provided Queens Grass International, and the Zenit football club and Bamart, which was responsible for the quality of the previous coating for the quality of the previous coating, was responsible for the installation of the field to the future Confederations Cup 2017.

According to the statements of Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Kirillova, after laying the lawn, its firmware will begin and on June 2-3, the Zenit Arena stadium will be transferred to the 2018 World Cup Organizing Committee for further operation.

Also, according to the vice-governor, the new lawn was grown for 4 years in Gatchina, in the village of Pyrhem (Leningrad region). The estimated cost of the new lawn is 21 million rubles.

"St. Petersburg Arena" (Zenit Arena) - One of the most expensive stadiums in the world. The cost of construction is 41.7 billion rubles. The stadium was transferred to the Zenit football club for rent for 100 years with a symbolic value of 1 ruble per year. The author of the stadium project was the Japanese architect Kisu Kourokawa. Capacity 67,800 people. Confederations 2017 World Cup matches, World Cup 2018, World Cup 2020. The Stadium has the highest rating from UEFA (4 stars).

As RBC explained by the agronomist of one of the Moscow football stadiums, "even the most good field can be ruined in three days." According to him, the reasons may be many, for example, incorrect agrotechnical events. "We also strongly influence the weather conditions," he adds. - The field is a living organism. " In order to give an accurate assessment of the RBC Observed on the "Cross", it is necessary to take the soil samples, check how the lawn care was carried out: "Maybe people simply went out on the field and shoes brought infection."

However, the main agronomist of Zenit Konstantin Kreminsky is confident that the case is not in weather conditions, but in the contractor who hired the previous general contractor "Inzhtransstroy SPb" (in August 2016 he was replaced by the company "Metrostroy"). Mention of the Kreminsky and the name of that contractor is the company "Bamard". "For nine months ... Aeration has not been carried out. In addition, the contractor who hired the city, poorly prepared the field for the winter - no processing of plant protection with plants was not done. " And when a retractable field at the end of February, plunged inside the bowl and melt snow, the lawn was spoiled. "We saw various fungal diseases, a lot of mold," - summarizes the Zenit agronomist.

Small "trough"

The contract for the creation of a field for the "Cross" "Bamard" received in the spring of 2016, defeating the tender announced by Inzhtransstroy SPb. According to the representative of one of the companies participating in the tender, to work on the largest arena of St. Petersburg, all profile market players - Russian InterporatStroy, Sport and Co., Sispets, Bimard, British company SIS, Slovak Engo. "This is a very attractive and status contract," says the source of RBC, appreciating the cost of designing and installing such a turnkey lawn at € 1.8-3 million.

All tender documentation, as well as the conditions that the winner suggested, is a commercial mystery. Inzhtranstroy SPb and Bamard answer questions about the cost of the contract refused.

The representative of the company - the tender member argues that the problems with the field were predictable. And he knew the entire market, including the contractor, he says.

"The organizer of the competition is the general contractor of the construction of the Inzhtranstroy SPb stadium in terms of the technical task of the parameters that initially made the implementation of the work of difficulty," says the source of RBC in one of the companies. The main problem was the depth of the so-called trough, in which the lawn is located with all "internal engineering". "Pie" standard field (grass and minimum three layers of sand and rubble with communications that provide drainage and heated. - RBC) It has a depth of 45 cm, in the technical launch in St. Petersburg, it was 40 cm, "says the source RBC. - It requires a non-standard, even unique solution. "

Field of Stadium "St. Petersburg". March 2017. (Photo: Anton Vaganov / Tass)

According to the source, the company who participated in the competition, paid the attention of the Customer to this, but the parameters of the technical market remained unchanged. The RBC source in Inzhtranstere SPb assures that it was impossible to change the technical application: "Technical parameters, including the depth of" trough ", were approved within the framework of the entire draft by the Customer - St. Petersburg, and change something was impossible. The project was spelled out all the sizes and field parameters. Taking into account the fact that the field was scheduled as a complex retractable design, change the design parameters, the same depth, it was impossible, so we worked as part of a coherent project. "

According to the interlocutor in Inzhtranstere SPb, Bamard suggested a reasonable technical solution to this problem, which was accepted.

Contractor with connections

Source of RBC, familiar with the details of the choice of contractor for the lawn "Cross," says that "Bamard" "lobbied at the highest level." "The Ministry of Sports has long been cooperating with" Bamard "under the construction program with artificial lawns, and Mutko personally recommended clubs and regional authorities building new stadiums, use the services of this Russian company," he says. It was not possible to receive confirmation of this information RBC. In the policeport, the RBC request has not yet responded.

Bamard is one of the largest Russian flooring producers for business centers, cinemas, hotels. The company is really part of the five largest sports coverage providers, confirmed RBC representative of another large company with similar specialization. As follows from the data of the SPARK base, Bamard actively participates in tenders for the conclusion of state contracts, mainly for the supply and installation of artificial fields. Since 2013, the company won 79 tenders for state contracts in the amount of 1.9 billion rubles. According to the data from the site "Bamanda", the company has delivered more than 70 full-sized artificial football fields on sports facilities in different regions of Russia.

However, with natural lawns, the company dealt only in several cases. "They are mainly engaged in artificial football fields, multifunctional sports grounds - for basketball, volleyball, handball. Natural lawns for football are not their main business, "says the representative of another player of this market. The official website of Bamanda states that the company has steamed natural fields on three large projects - at the Lokomotiv Stadium in Cherkizovo, at the St. Petersburg Stadium "Petrovsky", at the "Himki Stadium" in the Moscow region.

Over the past three years, the company also won tenders for the reconstruction of the "Seagull" stadiums and Lokomotiv in Voronezh (12 million rubles), SAMARA sites (Sparation Field of Metallurg Stadium, 44.9 million rubles), Stadium "Labor "In Togliatti (76 million rubles), as well as to create a lawn at the Central Stadium in Yekaterinburg. Stadium in the Urals, like a lawn in St. Petersburg, will take the game World Cup 2018. The remaining fields mentioned will be training for teams - participants of Mundial. According to the representative of "Bamanda", the company also laid natural lawns in Astrakhan (Volgar Stadium) and Krasnodar (Central Stadium). "If we had no need for the necessary competence, no one would entrust the lawn to us in St. Petersburg" , "He says.

The field in Yekaterinburg began to be equipped on April 1, the first seeding of grass will occur on July 1. The official term for passing the entire stadium under the contract is December 31, 2017, and the first matches are scheduled for April-May 2018.

According to the media, the company laid a natural lawn and in Kazan to Kazan Arena, but there they also had problems. Finalists of the 2016 Cup of 2016 - "Zenit" and CSKA - forbidden to conduct provisional training on the field to finally not "kill" the lawn. After the match in May 2016, the lawn at the stadium was decided to rebuild - and it was already entrusted with another company. In "Bamand", the "loss of Kazan" is associated with the change of leadership in the Local Football Club "Rubin". "The new general director of the club has already worked with another company laying the lawn, he instructed to overrably the field at Kazan Arena," he says.

​Neous lawn

CEO of Bamanda Alexander Jumble said RBC that, when surrendering the field of the "Cross", all the necessary engineering systems were in working condition, and the stadium employees have everything you need to maintain the field. "The question is not in the technology of sowing a lawn; In many ways, the situation depends on the quality and correctness of the use of agrotechnical events on these objects, "he said.

This statement contradicts the application of the Zenit Agronom, who, judging by him, is confident that until the end of February, "Bamard" should be responsible for the quality of lawn. Jails confirms that it was so, but I do not agree with the conclusion of a football club employee. "We in June 2016 sowed a football field, in September handed over its contractor. But after that, according to the contract, we were served - there is a magazine with a chart of feeding, watering, "says jumps. - Lawn wintering on the street is normal practice, grass withstands frost and minus 20 degrees. "

According to Jadekkova, the lawn after wintering is in a satisfactory condition. Visible disadvantages of the coating are a natural consequence of winter, and the words of the agronomist "Zenit" CEO of Bamnda explains the desire of the football club "Reinsure". "Given the fact that the Cup of Confederates Cup will be held at the stadium, Zenit does not want to take responsibility for the state of lawn, this is a political issue," RBC said. According to him, the company has the results of independent examinations, which indicate that there is no fungal and mold after wintering the lawn in the soil of the new stadium.

Retractable field of Stadium "St. Petersburg" (Photo: Mikhail Kireev / RIA Novosti)

Procedure Stadium

Construction of a new Zenit Stadium on the Cross Island began in 2007. The customer of construction was the mayor's office of St. Petersburg. Initially, the cost of construction was estimated at 14 billion rubles, and the stadium himself promised to commission in 2009.

However, subsequently the project and its budget were repeatedly corrected. As a result, the Cross became one of the most expensive stadiums of the world and the most expensive in the history of Russia. By the time of delivery, its cost amounted to about 44 billion rubles.

This amount will definitely increase, recognize in Zenit in the control of the stadium. The amount of additional costs depends on the scale of the problem, including the lawn.

The general director of Zenit Maxim Mitrofanov in an interview with Fontanka said that Zenit had already invested 1 billion rubles in the "fin", and everything, according to the football club, in the first two years of operation from the club budget will need to spend 5 , 5 billion rubles. To bring the stadium in perfect condition. "We are ready to bring him to mind and we plan to make a house with the house" Zenith "over time, but we understand that it is objective not to happen regardless of the season earlier than the season 2019/20," said Mitrofanov.

The replacement of the lawn on the "Cross", if it really will be necessary, can do "Zenit" in the full cost of its development and installation, that is, in the amount of up to € 3 million, the representative of one of the companies participating in the tender for the supply of lawn believes. However, it was difficult to call an accurate amount. "It is not for sure that it is necessary to correct," he says. "The football field is not only a lawn with grass, but also internal engineering communications, several complex drainage layers, are impossible to judge photographs about them."

The representative of another company - the tender member for the delivery of a lawn "Krestovsky" says that theoretically it is possible to put the field together with all internal communications in the insufficiently deep "trough", but it carries potential risks. "You see, there are standard technological solutions when laying football lawns, which are used worldwide and on which we can guarantee the qualitative functioning of all systems with proper care - explains the source of RBC. - surely you can squeeze "pie" and in not enough deep container, but first, fitting technologies for non-standard dimensions will cost more, and secondly, no one knows how such a unique lawn behaves during operation: maybe all It will be in order, and maybe you have to constantly change something and repair. "

Alexander Jump assures that nothing will have to change anything and all the internal communications of the lawn will work properly. "This is really a very complex engineering object, the field has a very shallow base - there are no analogues in the world, but we are confident in our work," he says.

RBC interviewes Specialists in lawn laying claim that in the already built stadium "fit" the field under standard sizes, that is, to make a "trough" deeper, it is impossible - this means that it will have to rebuild the entire stadium.

Football players "Zenit" refused to defend the Russian Championship at the new Zenit-Arena Stadium (he also called "Cross" and "St. Petersburg Arena"), report "Sport Day after Day", "Fontanka" and "Sport-Express". Until the end of the Zenit Championship, three matches have to be held, only one of them will be home - with "Krasnodar" on May 17. The meeting is expected to take place at the Petrovsky Stadium.

Although the Petersburg club needed to test the Stadium "St. Petersburg" to the Confederation Cup, the blue-white-blue costs it expensive in every sense. Arena is not yet ready to carry out tournaments of this level. Before the match with "Terek" (0: 1), Zenit has problems getting to the Cross Island. The team coaches had to even leave the bus and adjust the movement, difficult by traffic jams. Inside the stadium is also a lot of trouble. For example, in the locker room of the team of Mircea Lucescu, there were problems with hot water.

But the main stadium trouble of course, the field that was made with large violations of technologies and is not now not suitable for playing football. At the construction stage, Zenit was alarmed about it, but it was not heard, since the customer had to hand over the arena as soon as possible, often sacrificing quality of work.

Recall, after the match with the "Terek" Assistant Zenit's head coach, Alexander Spiridon noted that even the outsiders of the Ukrainian championship did not have such a quality field for 13 years.

He himself "Zenit" spent on the "Zenit-Arena" until only two matches - with the "Ural" on April 22 (), and with the "Terek" on May 7 ("such a bad field, as today, has never been any team in Ukraine ").

According to official data, the construction of the stadium, which began in 2007, cost about 43 billion rubles. According to unofficial data, more than 48 billion spent on the object.

Problems with the construction of a football stadium "Cross" in St. Petersburg have long become part of the folk folklore, however, after passing the arena, there are a lot of arms to operate for jokes. The main one is the disgusting state of the field, forced to transfer the last homemade match of the championship to their old Petrovsky stadium. On the continuation of the scandal around the infamous facility.

Scorched earth

The news about the transfer of the 29th round tour of the Russian Championship with Krasnodar appeared in the St. Petersburg edition, but doubt that soon the information was confirmed officially, it remains practically. For everyone who has been watching the match "Zenith" and "Terek" (0: 1), lively or on TV, there was no doubt: playing such a lawn at least uncomfortable, as a maximum - dangerous to the health of football players. When players' transmissions, the ball is noticeably "the bald" field unnaturally joked, and the pieces of the turne were torn up after the subframes or falls of the meeting participants.

"As a coach, I was interested in a field in St. Petersburg. Of course, it is bad. As I said, the field was combat. When Ablaire Mbeen was scored, he had a foot on his knee climbed into the ground, "Terek head coach told the portal after the meeting.

There were no indifferent to far from the emerald lawn of the "Cross" and the owners of the field. The head coach Zenit after the meeting stated that he turned to the leadership with a request to postpone the game with Krasnodar on Petrovsky, but then he was refused. Assistant Romanian specialist Alexander Spiridon, who worked with Lucescu in Shakhtar was quite rigorous.

"There is no such field in Ukraine. Even the championship outsiders did not have such a field for 13 years. Even in the spring, when the grass begins to grow, no one has such a lawn, on which football players suffer. And they tormented today, "the coach said.

Not a single field

According to eyewitnesses and information of various media, the problems on the new arena are not limited to the poor state of lawn. In the debut for the "Cross" official meeting "Zenit" - because of the unexpected snowfall, the roof of the stadium was decided to leave closed, after which it became clear that it was situated by places. On the side along the fan viege of dripped water, and in the submits, they tried to cope with the old proven way - with the help of plastic buckets.

According to the publication "Sport Day after day", before the game with Terek, the blue-white-blue has problems arrival at the Cross Island, the team fell into a traffic jam. In addition, in the locker room of the hosts, hot water interruptions were observed. During a meeting with the bunchers, the audience complained about the comfort. This time the roof of the arena was opened, because of what the Ice Petersburg Wind was walled in the stadium.

The General Director of Zenit in a recent interview was not too optimistic noted that the stadium would be brought to the mind only for the season 2019/20.

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Chance for maneuver

However, the International Football Federation (FIFA) there is no time to wait. Already on June 17, the "Cross", which, for the time of the Cup of Confederations, will be called "St. Petersburg", must take the match-opening of the tournament between the Russian national teams and New Zealand.

FIFA had a compulsory requirement to conduct three test matches in the arena for competitions. If a meeting with Krasnodar is still tolerated, two such games will remain two. According to Fontanka, the Federation will be invited to consider as a third test event. The February Festival "Radio Zenit". What they will be answered in FIFA is unknown.

Much more demands about the test matches of football officials should be interested in the quality of the lawn, bring leading world teams to such a field - the present shame. According to Sport-Express, with reference to the unnamed source, on May 11, an unscheduled meeting will be held at the stadium. FIFA experts fly to St. Petersburg, which, together with representatives of the Russia-2018 Organizing Committee, decide what to do with the field of the stadium.

"Options Two: either experts will decide that the lawn can be" cured "and bring the Confederations Cup starting on June 17, or the field will need to be backed by an emergency method. The experts will have to evaluate not only the lawn itself, but also the so-called stuffing, the pie for the field, "the source noted.

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Last summer, one of the most famous fans of Zenit is an actor and singer - in a conversation with a correspondent "Renta.ru" in the hearts offered to demolish unfinished at that time "Krestovsky" and establish an 80-meter statue of work in its place. How seriously it was said, it is difficult to understand, however, the fans of blue-white-blue, as well as the other fans of Russian football, hope that it will not reach this. The presence in St. Petersburg is a comfortable, modern and spacious arena on the hand to all those who are not indifferent to the Russians.

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Zenit refused to play in the new stadium due to the state of the field

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The match of the 29th round of the Russian Football Championship between the teams "Zenit" and "Krasnodar" was postponed from the Arena St. Petersburg (Zenit-Arena) to the old Petrovsky stadium. The reason in the unsatisfactory state of the lawn on the new platform.

This reports "Fontanka" with reference to the source at the Zenit Club. The match was supposed to go to Zenit-Arena on May 17.

Previously, the head coach of Zenit Mircea Lucescu criticized the quality of lawn at the new stadium. "There is no such field in Ukraine. There, even the championship outsiders there is no such field. For 13 years I have never seen this. Even in the spring, when the fields are just beginning, for example, from "Poltava", there is such a team there, there are no such fields, "said Lucescu after a lost match with Terek (0: 1) on May 7. A few days earlier, Lucescu asked to transfer this game to Petrovsky. According to the results of the first game with the Yekaterinburg "Ural", many complaints have also left for the Arena lawn.

Meanwhile, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin believes that the field of the Arena "St. Petersburg" to the match with Krasnodar is ready. "On the lawn is a Zenit football club. From August last year, Zenit is engaged in the lawn, all questions there, "he commented on the situation. "I repeat my position that a lawn" St. Petersburg "is ready for the match with Krasnodar, but since August last year, Zenit is engaged in the lawn. There is a written report "Zenith" on the state of lawn, and all the recommendations of the contractor "Bamard" are performed. "

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The game with Krasnodar should have been a third test event before the Confederation Cup. According to Fontanka, in connection with the abolition of the game with Zenit - Krasnodar FIFA will be asked to consider as a test event "Radio Zenit" festival, which took place in February.