How much did the Kaliningrad World Cup stadium (Rostec Arena) cost to build?
Rostec Arena (Arena Baltika, Kaliningrad Stadium) is a 35,016-seat football stadium on Oktyabrsky Island in Kaliningrad, Russia, built for the 2018 FIFA World Cup by Crocus International with half of the funding from the federal budget and half from the regional budget, with the first pile driven on 11 September 2015, commissioned on 23 March 2018 and opened on 11 April 2018. Russian Wikipedia gives a cost of RUB 17.75 billion, after an initial estimate of RUB 11 billion that was later revised to RUB 17.3 billion, while English Wikipedia gives EUR 257 million.
Reported project cost
RUB 17.75 billion
Approximately $283.24 million
Cost basis: 2018
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Basis of the published figure
Reported project cost2018
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Key dimensions
- CapacityWikipedia (Russian edition)
- 35,016 seats
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