For clarity, the segment that I am now talking about is on the map of 1915 with a map overlaying it with modern house numbering, on the right is the former Young Pioneers stadium. 
In the 4th part, I told about the exhibition of 1882.
And in the future Khodynka field was known for its exhibitions.
In 1885, a handicraft exhibition was held here, it was held in the pavilions of the 1882 exhibition. 
Inner space.
Other photos with its interiors can be viewed from a respected humus
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The exhibition was opened in honor of the centenary of the Empress Catherine II granting independent rights to the handicraft class. A commemorative token was issued for its opening.
The French trade and industrial exhibition was held here in 1891, it looked like a Parisian fashion parade, a demonstration of technological progress, and a concert venue.
Here are excerpts from A. Belyanovsky's article "The main entrance to the exhibition was decorated with many Russian and French flags, images of Russian eagles, the monograms of the Sovereign Emperor and large medallions with the letters RF (Republic of France). There were also coats of arms of the French provinces and Russian provinces.
The main exposition of the French Exhibition was located in the Central Building, which consisted of eight longitudinal pavilions connected by circular galleries.
The pavilion of the main entrance, the first one on the way, greeted guests with the finest aroma of French perfumery and a festive display of works of applied art - majolica, crystal, glass, mirrors, "cupronickel and other silver imitations." They were complemented by artistic bronze, chandeliers and candelabra.
Another unusual structure - a detached military pavilion was erected in the form of an old fortified castle in the Gothic style. The material was wood, but thanks to the coloring in the colors of natural stone, it gave the impression of a solid stone building. There were several rooms inside. The main hall, which occupied half the volume, was filled with stuffed horses and dummies of French soldiers and officers of various branches of the military. The walls were hidden under decoration depicting an artillery battery and a military camp. In other halls, goods from suppliers of the French army were exhibited.
The building of the Imperial Pavilion was intended exclusively for the recreation of the August Family. Built back in 1882 for the All-Russian Exhibition, it was completely renovated and restored. Furniture, carpets, curtains and decorations were delivered by French exhibitors, which undoubtedly added to their reputation and served as a good advertisement for the products offered. 
Theaters, restaurants and luminous fountains woke up in the evening and lived to the fullest until one in the morning. Many then quite sincerely considered the French Exhibition ... an amusement park. Indeed, what else to call a shady well-kept park with two theatres, expensive restaurants, an Arabic coffee shop, a tavern, numerous orchestras and a wide spread of shopping stalls?
Directly behind the Central Building, the Omon Concert Theater grew up (I remind you that during these years Omon rented a plot in the neighborhood, from the merchant Postnikov,), where “a mixed Franco-Russian chansonnet troupe, gymnasts, animal tamers and various similar entertainers gave performances three times a day. On three sides, the building was surrounded by a wide terrace, where a military band played during intermissions. There they arranged a buffet and arranged tables for guests.
Another center of art - the Lotomba operetta theater was located inside the Central Building. It was built on two floors, had three tiers of boxes and accommodated 1,400 spectators. Tickets were sold here not only for chairs in the stalls, but also for individual chairs in the boxes, as in France (in Russia, the boxes were redeemed as a whole).
Two main restaurants - Alexandrov and Lomacha(Russian) and Ansara (French) - side by side in the Central Building.
And one more place of pilgrimage - a small Arabic coffee house for a long time was remembered by Muscovites for hot coffee and performances of a troupe of charming dancers.
For ordinary people, a tavern worked - "cheap, well, completely Russian folk."
Orchestras played on special stages in the central garden from 5 to 11 pm. 24 kiosks were also set up here, leasing them to entrepreneurs for the sale of flowers, fruits, tobacco and fruit water. Only one of them sold newspapers and magazines.
The main attraction and lure of the exhibition, its apotheosis - Fontaines Lumineuses! - luminous fountains worked at 9, 10 and 11 o'clock in the evening, after the closing of the pavilions, thus serving only the amusement of the public.
The spectacle, at that time, was completely new and unprecedented. And therefore, the admiration of the journalist who wrote: “Undoubtedly, they justify the reputation created by them at the Paris World Exhibition is understandable. When all the water columns, rising ten sazhens, crumble into millions of sprays and the water dust swirls in a silvery fog, and from below all this bulk of water is illuminated either by the bright light of molten gold, then by ruby lights, then by pale blue and dark blue, the picture is striking in its fantasticness. . These are some kind of magical halls of molten precious stones, this is a brilliant fiery firework. The viewer forgets that there is water in front of him, and the more he peers, the stronger the illusion becomes, transferring him to a fairy-tale world. The lighting of the fountains varies with great taste, and the picture is especially beautiful when the side jets are illuminated by side lights, and the middle, main water column casts with matte silver or emerald light of the deep sea. Rumors about fountains did not sin against the truth. Fountains are above all their descriptions. "Full article.
In 1914, a factory and craft exhibition was opened at this place. New pavilions have already been built for it. General form.
The Iskra magazine wrote in 1914: “It was arranged by the Mutually Auxiliary Society of Craftsmen, founded in 1875. Still, the exhibition is not quite finished yet and has not been put in order, and therefore does not give the necessary completeness of the impression. architects' projects Karl Alexandrovich Greinert and Vladimir Vasilievich Voeikov.
Many exhibition buildings are empty, and visitors to the exhibition will have to admire not the exhibits, but only the pavilions, sometimes beautiful and stylish...
The main pavilion, reminiscent of the Yaroslavl railway station in Moscow, is also beautiful. There are also some exhibits here, but the pavilion is far from being full and its emptiness makes a depressing impression. But the exhibition has a wide place for the entertainment part ....
The Palace of Fashion and the Factory, built in the Empire style, are also remembered.
Main entrance.
main pavilion.
And further in the magazine "" Among the many places of entertainment, the Sukhodolsky Theater occupies the most prominent place. There will be concerts and tours of capital and visiting artists and actresses.
In 1916, they were going to open a huge All-Russian exhibition, but other times came and this idea was not destined to come true.
Already before the revolution, in the intervals between exhibitions, the first sports competitions began to be held here, because. Back in 1911, the city of Moscow gave the former Tsar's Pavilion to the Ski Club on the condition of free winter lessons for children. In the same year, the first specialized football ground in Russia was built here. The history of the Young Pioneers Stadium, or SUP for short, began with this institution.
In 1913, 100-meter running competitions were held here; here is a snapshot of athletes in 1915 at the ski club (the former Tsar's pavilion), and in 1917 the first departure of the club of Moscow minders starts from the same Tsar's pavilion,.
On the site dedicated to the history of the Spartak team, I read the following: “During the 1st World War, the stadium fell into disrepair, and a giant cemetery of broken trams formed in its place. In March 1923, the MKL stadium (Moscow ski club) became the property of - Tyu RKSM of the Krasnopresnensky district, but remained not restored. Grandiose in scale work began in April 1926. And by July, a new arena, the largest at that time in the USSR, was built, having received the name - the stadium named after the Tomsk Union of Food Workers. (M .P. Tomsky at that time held the position of chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions).
The structure of the complex, when it was completed, included: three football fields (main and two training), two athletics tracks, special areas for certain types of athletics, 4 basketball courts, 4 volleyball, pushball, for playing croquet, four tennis courts, three concrete grounds for playing gorodki, specially equipped places under a canopy for summer wrestling, boxing, weights, a bowling alley, a 200-meter shooting range, a 500-meter velodrome. But the central arena of the stadium served as the main source of pride - a football field measuring 85 by 115 meters, bordered by three-buns (only one was built at the time of opening). 13,000 spectators could watch football matches at the same time (later, the stadium had stands for 8,000 people and an embankment where another 15,000 could sit). This arena still exists today. This is the well-known Stadium of Young Pioneers."
This is what the stadium looked like in a 1926 photo.
Ilf and Petrov in "12 Chairs" in the manuscript contains the phrase "Cyclists flew noiselessly from the Tomsk stadium, from the first big long-distance match", in later editions instead of "Tomsk stadium" - "Young Pioneers Stadium".
After Tomsky was classified as an "oppositionist" in 1929, it was forbidden to mention his name, later the stadium was renamed the Young Pioneers Stadium and from an adult it turned into a children's one.
Hence, in all Soviet guidebooks, the date of foundation of the SUP is considered to be 1932 - 1934.
Stadium fence. Photo 1934 -1937 
Unfortunately, there are almost no old photographs of that time.
And the post-war period of the stadium was wonderfully written by the honored coach T.A. Tarasova in her book "The Four Seasons" - "It was always noisy at the SUP and people were running everywhere. Who plays volleyball, who plays basketball. In winter, the skating rink at the stadium was flooded not only for figure skaters, tracks for skaters were laid along the edges. With skaters the skaters were friends—they spent the whole day on the ice, and so did we... Ah, now it’s not what it used to be—you get out of the car, large flakes of snow swirl around... Every evening is a holiday. residents wrote complaints. We couldn’t go home. We didn’t have enough ice ... " 
I have my own history connected with the stadium, no, I have never studied here, in my time there were already stadiums closer to CSKA and Dynamo, but sometimes I visited, because. also lived on Sokol. And my story is this, somehow my parents went to the stadium in the winter and took me with them, when we got off the tram, they put me on a sled and drove along the stadium fence, on some bump I fell off and fell out of the sled, but why - she didn’t cry, but the parents continued to walk, chatting about something merrily, and not noticing anything, until a woman walking in the distance shouted, “Hey, dad, you lost your child.” This story was so often recalled in my family that I don’t know for sure whether I really remember the receding figures of my parents or if my imagination has already completed it.
In a guide to Moscow for 1975, we read: “From the entrance, an alley leads through the entire stadium. To the right of it is the basketball and volleyball sector, to the left is a football field with stands for 7 thousand people, athletics sectors and a running track. 
Further there are gymnastic and acrobatic towns, tennis courts, behind which there is a small athletic field. Next to the courts is the building of the first indoor artificial ice rink in the Soviet Union (1955). Along the alley you can go to the House of Physical Culture, which has a gym and a number of other facilities. 
In the western sector there is a cycle track built in 1951. In 1967, an athletics arena was put into operation here. 
In Moscow, the Young Pioneers stadium, which was opened back in 1934, was demolished, and a residential complex will be built in its place.
The stadium "Young Pioneers", in the north-west of the capital, not far from the metro station "Dynamo", was destroyed. This started two years ago, and recently the last steles with mosaics were dismantled.
For sports Moscow, it was a landmark place that was reconstructed several times. Football and figure skating, shooting and athletics sections worked here, it was possible to skate, play volleyball, basketball and tennis. In winter, hockey.
Many sports stars started at the SUP - that's how the stadium was briefly called. He was especially dear to skaters. Here is what honored coach Tatyana Tarasova wrote about SUP in her first book, The Four Seasons.
“There is no place in Moscow more expensive and beloved. Here, I know, people need it, here are my students, here I spent most of my life. What happiness - to return from a trip to the native ice rink. The Young Pioneers Stadium is my life.
I am now walking along the SF, as I walked thirty years ago, along the Central Alley past the bust of Lenin, but how my SF has changed! To my left are the same low stands of the stadium, but now an artificial turf has been laid on the field, and to the right stretches a long transparent building of an indoor arena for athletes and, finally, a blank rectangle of our indoor ice rink.
What was the skating rink at SUP in those years? There were two. Even then, thirty years ago, it was closed, with artificial ice, but the site is much smaller than the current one, and only the best athletes had the right to ride on it. The rest were engaged in an open stadium, A heating truck adjoined the rink. There were antique armchairs in it, a huge framed mirror hung. Choreography lessons were held at the other end of the stadium, in the House of Physical Education, a rebuilt church, where gymnasts and acrobats trained on the second floor, below there was a choreography hall, with mirrors and a machine along the wall.
It was always noisy on the SUP and people were running everywhere. Who plays volleyball, who plays basketball. In winter, the skating rink at the stadium was flooded not only for figure skaters, but tracks for skaters were laid along the edges. The skaters were friends with the skaters - they are on the ice all day and so are we. Sometimes we, completely undeserved, had classes on a small patch of artificial ice - they came as rewards, they were not missed.
The love for their stadium and skating rink is so strong in Syupov skaters that when the new skating rink was opened, everyone who had once trained on the old site gathered for the celebration. I was invited many times to work as a coach at CSKA and Dynamo, but I can’t change the SUP.”
A few nostalgic shots of what the SUP was like in the Soviet years. When he lived a full-fledged stadium life, taking thousands of children daily.
1934, demonstration on the occasion of the opening of the Young Pioneers stadium in Moscow.
The same famous school of figure skating.
The SF was an Olympic venue. Yes, yes, in 1980 field hockey competitions were held here.
1999 Palace of Young Pioneers next to Petrovsky Park.
Famous mosaic panels could be seen on both sides of the fence; there were cyclists, football players, gymnasts, a girl with a jump rope and runners.
The section of monumental and decorative art of the Moscow Union of Artists sent a letter to the departments of culture and cultural heritage of Moscow about the fate of the mosaics in Leningradka. But never received an answer. Steles with mosaics do not have the status of a cultural heritage site. However, representatives of the development company assure that the mosaic has been carefully dismantled and will be used in the beautification project of the future building. How exactly is the big question.
Now the Palace of Young Pioneers is a large construction site.
And in place of the panel - a fence.
Tatyana Tarasova, annoyed by the demolition of the SF, wrote a long post on Facebook. He was naturally very emotional:
“It was this place in Moscow that had to be destroyed? Creatures that have no memory, no respect for the history of their native city, respect for the glorious beginning of our Soviet and Russian Olympic movement! Why can't we save? Why can we destroy?
This place was busy. There was and is a church at the stadium, we did choreography there and prayed for our teachers, who gave us a profession, and we gave others a profession and prayed for our happiness. We lived there, it was our home. These urban aliens are thinking of throwing away our lives and jobs. They expelled the fans, broke and destroyed the children's stadium. Brainless cattle! Temporary workers! Bastards and pests of Moscow!
A coach who has services to the fatherland, Tatyana Anatolyevna Tarasova. Forgive me for not being able to protect this piece of the Motherland!”
Photo: RIA Novosti / RIA Novosti, Vitaly Karpov; pastvu.com (3-5); vk.com/syup_msk (6-7, 12-13); instagram.com/varfalamey_pan_polskiy; nashenasledie.livejournal.com (9.11); instagram.com/serjdema
What happened
Last weekend, on the territory of the Stadium of Young Pioneers destroyed in 2016, the dismantling of mosaic panels from 1964 by Elvira Zernosek began. The fact that the mosaics - a girl with a rope, cyclists and football players - are being removed and taken away in an unknown direction, was reported by a Muscovite and the author of Afisha on his Facebook page.
The stadium of young pioneers is one of the oldest sports facilities in the city, where skiing, running and football lovers began to gather even before the revolution. The first sections arose here after the XV All-Russian Art and Industrial Exhibition of 1882. In 2009, it became known that large-scale construction was planned on its territory: then the developer Coalco was going to build eleven objects, three of them about a hundred meters high. But finally the stadium stopped its work only after six years. Now, in its place, a residential complex of four buildings is being built overlooking the Leningradskoye highway and interchanges at Treshka, it is all called Tsarskaya Ploshchad. The second developer of the project was the MR Group company, and the concept of the new residential complex was developed by the architectural bureaus Speech and Wowhaus.
Victor Kurasov
Activist, former head of the municipality of the Begovoy district
“In 1946, a fence with rounded stone niches for mosaics was erected at the Stadium of Young Pioneers, designed by architect Yu.V. In 1964, the artists of monumental and decorative art Elvira Zhernosek and Martuni Potikyan decorated it with two panels on the theme of children's sports.
Now the SUP fence has become the only surviving example of a Soviet-era metal fence with corner niches and mosaics. We believe that it deserved to be given the status of a cultural heritage site. In February 2016, such an application was even submitted to the Department of Cultural Heritage of the city - a refusal came. Therefore, the fate of the building is at the mercy of the developer. Most likely, he will leave only the entrance group and three sections of the fence, and destroy everything else, including the corner niches.
As for the fate of the dismantled panels, it is still unknown. It is alleged that now the mosaics are stored in the warehouse of the developer. Judging by the booklets and presentations, they plan to recreate them. But as far as I know, this has not been agreed yet. Therefore, the return of mosaics is a big question. Considering that 90% of the developer’s shares are owned by VTB Real Estate LLC, which belongs to VTB Bank PJSC, more than 60% of whose shares are owned by the state, there is hope that the former pioneers Dmitry Medvedev and Andrey Kostin will leave at least a fence from the children’s stadium as a memory for hundreds of thousands of Soviet children involved in sports here.
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Natalia Klestova
Marketer, resident of the Begovoy district
“I am not such an elderly person, I have been living at Dynamo since 1999. At that time, part of the stadium from the side of Leningradsky Prospekt was already occupied by a car dealership. But the stands, changing rooms and the Tsar's pavilion in the tiles have not yet been destroyed. Tennis courts were open. Yard teams played football. In winter, a skating rink was flooded there - one of the most fashionable in the city at the beginning of the 2000s. During the day on weekdays, schoolchildren were allowed to go there for free. But then, on the site of the giant podium from the side of Botkinsky, the Monarkh residential complex grew up, crushing our touching, small pear alley, which was planted by MIG workers. The rumbling club "Arena" drove into the building of the children's Ice complex. Petrovsky Park was partially cut down for office and residential high-rise buildings. And instead of the green Stadium of Young Pioneers, the residents of the district received five concrete bulks ... As a result, we found ourselves in an ecological trap. A green, low-rise, quiet area has literally turned into a concrete ghetto in just ten years.
The question of the need to preserve the mosaic panel on the territory of the SUP seems strange to me. Why, for example, is it important to keep family photos or a grandmother's ring? It's our past, our emotional connections, memories. Finally, it is a monument of its time. Thin sketchy children in funny uniforms on the panel are the spirit of the sixties: morning exercises under the radio, pioneer sports days, sports parades and other socialist joys like the circle of aircraft modelers at DOSAAF or the swimming section at the factory trade union committee. The mosaics are as much a replica of the era as the films of the 50s and 60s.”
Girl with a jump rope. Now instead of it a pile of bricks
Marat Nabi
Mosaic artist
“As an artist, it surprises me that almost all panels in our country are considered not cultural heritage, but ordinary decorative items that can be covered with plaster or simply knocked down. It's good that there are people like Alexander Mozhaev and other architects who sometimes raise a fuss. For people who pass by every day, these panels may have already become boring. But as soon as the gray porcelain stoneware slabs replace the mosaic, we will begin to appreciate what we have lost.
When I last saw the panels at the Young Pioneers Stadium, they were in good condition. There was not a single broken fragment. Perhaps they need minimal restoration - specialists know better. But it is sad that these mosaics can disappear somewhere, as it happens with us. First, they promise that the panels will be returned, and then it turns out that they do not fit into the decor of the house. After all, there is Tsarskaya Square, and on the mosaic there are athletes and a girl with a rope.
I dream that one of the officials or wealthy people will make a park of Soviet mosaics like the sculpture park in the Muzeon. People would walk there, sit on benches, look at our past, as avant-garde artists saw it.”
Submitted by evge-chesnokov on Wed, 05/08/2015 - 21:17
Once upon a time, from the Petersburg highway to the hippodrome, the Begovaya Alley was laid, which served as the main entrance. Now the townspeople get here along Begovaya Street, going from Khoroshovsky Highway to the intersection with Leningradsky Prospekt. In its name, one of the types of horse testing is immortalized - running. In addition to the hippodrome on Begovaya Street, there is the Young Pioneers Stadium, the architectural curiosity "Centipede House" and several curious residential buildings of the 1920-1950s.
Aerial photography of Khodynka in the early 1920s: https://pastvu.com/p/46571 The photo shows a surprisingly virgin wasteland between the hospital and the hippodrome, residential buildings are not visible here at all, the stadium named after Tomsky (Young Pioneers) has not yet been opened, and the territory the hippodrome on the right side of the picture is impressive in scale - running and racing ovals, stables right up to the highway.
The numbering of houses on Begovaya Street begins on the other side, from the Vagankovsky overpass and the intricacies of interchanges of the Third Ring Road. On the odd side, on the site of one of the "German quarters", a business center has grown here (the post-war "German houses" on Khoroshevka deserve a separate story). Only house No. 2B, the former veterinary infirmary of the Moscow Hippodrome, later a warehouse for inventory, and now an administrative building, is related to running and racing.
Railway platform "Begovaya"
Begovaya metro station opened on December 30, 1972. Internet sources describe the interior in the same way: “The walls of the ticket halls are decorated with the Mighty Trotters panel, above the escalators there are high reliefs on the theme of equestrian sports (sculptor E. Ladygin).” There are indeed high reliefs - one from each end of the station, but the panel with trotters was not found.
Sections of artistic gymnastics, acrobatics, fencing, and chess worked in the House of Sports. 1959: https://pastvu.com/p/46563 Photo: A. Bochinin
The Young Pioneers Stadium was involved in the XXII Olympic Games, several matches of the field hockey tournament were played here. A synthetic turf imitating a grassy lawn - polygrass - was laid on the training field. Back then, artificial grass was still a novelty. And even earlier - in 1955 - the first indoor skating rink with artificial ice in the Soviet Union appeared at the Young Pioneers stadium. Multiple world and European champions, duets Irina Moiseeva - Andrey Minenkov, Natalya Bestemyanova - Andrey Bukin, Marina Klimova - Sergey Ponomarenko came out of the Syupov section of pair dances, Irina Slutskaya and many other figure skating masters trained here.
Cycle track. 1980: https://pastvu.com/p/8072 On the site of the cycle track, where the strongest Moscow cyclists trained, the MonArch business complex was built.
The SYP has still been preserved, albeit in a truncated form, there are mini-football courts, a volleyball court and clay tennis courts, and in winter a skating rink is flooded. One of the first athletics arenas in the country, built in 1967, has been converted into a chain fitness center. However, the sword of Damocles of new development projects hangs over what remains of the former luxury of Soviet sports.
The Ray Just Arena is located in the former Ice Palace built in 1982. The young pioneers grew up and found new hobbies.
Tattoo convention at the Arena club
