World Cup 2018: Russian city of Samara, football and space racing
(8 years ago)Where the Sputnik stadium had stayed there was a home block, the angle in which the space rocket has already been launched is a wasteland and is being destroyed every day. These are just a few of the old Samara football arenas, host city of the World Cup, which is the most famous for helping [them]...
These are just some of the old Samara football arenas, the host city of the World Cup, which is the most famous for helping the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States.
About 1,000km southeast of Moscow on the Volga River, Samara has so far hosted three World Cup meetings, including the meeting between Uruguay and Russia held on Monday, which ended with the victory of the South American country.
But if we go back to history, the plants in Samara that produced space missiles were built in 1961 that enabled Yuri Gagarin to become the first person to affect earth's orbit, “reported. BBC”, report Periscope.
It is the city of 1.2 million people, and it is still home to the space industry. But since the collapse of communism in 1991, the teams they used to represent its factories and places where they played have disappeared.
Walking in front of a pile of litter dumps, an abandoned car and out of the tall bar, you see also a broken deck, covered with broken glass, weeds and bushes.
The city of Samara had another name until 1991 was called Kuybyshiev, a country that the Soviet Union isolated for foreigners.
Next season, the matches at the new stadium will be held by the Russian team Kryla Sovetov.
There is also a museum in this city that has been created with the Serge Leibrad and Alexei Chernysev initiative. The museum was formed in 2007, and they have collected different materials representing the country's history.
There are also many photos of the unbelievable former striker Boris Kazakov, who died under tragic circumstances at the age of 38, drowned in his car after he crashed through a frozen river in 1978./Periscopi/
