Expenses for the construction of stadiums amounted to 390 billion rubles, which is 55 billion rubles more than the estimate for 2015. In this case, some stadiums risk being unfinished.
Head coach of "Zenith" Mircha Luchesku said that the field of the new stadium in St. Petersburg is not suitable even for training. The appalling quality of the lawn was also mentioned by the general manager of the club, Maxim Mitrofanov.
How Poltavchenko, Albin, Deripaska and others spent more than $1 billion for the construction of a mega-stadium in St. Petersburg.
It is planned to build it as early as in 2018.