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Chernihiv Stadium

Olympic sports training center "Chernihiv" (formerly Yuri Gagarin Stadium) (Ukrainian: Олімпійський навчально-спортивний центр «Чернігів») is a multi-purpose stadium in Chernihiv, Ukraine. The stadium was given status of Olympic preparation and brought under the administration of the Ministry of Youth and Sports. It is located in Tarnovsky house, in Shevchenko street 61.

It is currently used mostly for football matches, and is the home of Ukraine women's national football team and Desna Chernihiv. It has a capacity of 12,060 spectators and 5,500 individual plastic seats.

Beside its main arena, the football field, the center houses four sports schools and several sports sections. There are a boxing hall, a running track, a fitness room (weightlifting/gymnastics), a massage room, an electronic scoreboard, a controlled-access entrance. The field has a water sprinkle system and floodlights. The center conducts competitions in athletics (track and field), football, boxing, and weightlifting.

There is a prospective project on reconstructing the center into a sports city "Luchisty" (Radiant) which beside the football stadium (3,000 seats) would include an ice arena (4,000 seats), a fitness-recreational complex (swimming pool, indoor field, and numbers of other sports halls), and a beach club (including a beach stadium, open air fitness rooms and swimming pools, and sauna). The sports complex also would include a hotel complex with 175 rooms.

The stadium houses the Chernihiv boxing club "Ring", sports school "Atlet" specializing in athletics and weightlifting, as well as specialized sports school "Desna" specializing in association football. The Yuri Gagarin Stadium offers a good mix of concessions for supporters. Be prepared to queue as they are very popular with visitors, but there lack some in terms of facilities in particular, in the van of the gadgets they don't accept credit card but only cash for the moment. There are hot food is available from the bbq, and the fryers. There are also cold snacks available.

The history of Chernihiv Stadium dates back to 1936 for 3,000 spectators in eastern portion of a city park (garden) that exists since 1804. The territory of the city garden was chosen for the construction of the stadium. At the end of the 18th century, there was a dacha of the Archbishop of Chernihiv on this territory. At the beginning of the 19th century, namely in 1804, a city garden was formed on the site of the modern stadium.

During World War II, the Chernihiv Stadium was heavily damaged and in the 1950s was completely reconstructed, included stadium walls and two stands for 11,000 spectators. In 1961, it was named after the Russian Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

On 25 May 1964, Yuri Gagarin visited the stadium and met with Andriyan Nikolayev. In the mid-1980s, the stadium capacity was increased to 14,000. In the season 1996–97, was held the first leg of the Ukrainian Amateur Cup, between FC Domobudivnyk Chernihiv and FC Krystal Parkhomivka, ended with the victory of FC Domobudivnyk Chernihiv for 2–0.

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