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How much did Krasnodar Stadium cost to build?

The Krasnodar Stadium (Galitsky Stadium, the stadium of FC Krasnodar) is the privately financed football stadium in Krasnodar, Russia, with about 33,000 seats expandable to 40,000, built by the club owner Sergey Galitsky without municipal money from 2013 and opened on 9 October 2016 with a match between Russia and Costa Rica. Forbes Russia wrote in March 2017 that Galitsky had spent 25 billion roubles, or 460 million dollars at the average rate of the construction period, over three and a half years on the stadium, after he had said in February 2016 that the cost would exceed 20 billion roubles.