Ukraina Stadium ( uk, стадіон Україна) is a

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. It is currently used mostly for

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matches, and is the home of

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. "Ukraina" is also an alternative stadium for the

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where it played several of its qualification games for various tournaments. The stadium is located in the central part of the city in the Snopkiv Park which is classified as the monument of park architecture (landscape art).

Brief outlook

During Soviet times, the stadium was called ''Druzhba'' ( uk, Дружба), which means "friendship". It was named after Druzhba park that was building along with it in historical neighborhood of Snopkiv. The stadium was erected in three years by the method of public construction (collective construction), meaning that each big company of Lviv was responsible for construction of its own part of the future stadium. The construction was headed by the third secretary of the Communist Party City Committee, Vasyl Mazur, who also took part in the construction. The architects were Yaroslav Nazarkevych, Larysa Skoryk, Yaroslav Porokhnavets, Volodymyr Blyusyuk. The official debut game took place on 18 August 1963, when the local

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were playing against the visiting Zalgiris Vilnius. On the 86th minute, Ivan Dykovets failed to convert a penalty kick and the game ended in the loss by the home team, 0-1. In its initial years the Druzhba Stadium had capacity to hold 41,700 seated spectators. The most attended games were an exhibition game with

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(

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) on 26 May 1970 (around 50,000) and the game with

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on 27 June 1971 as part of the

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season (51,000). On 13 October 1971, the

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was hosting its opponents from

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in a qualification game for the

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. In 1990, by the initiative of the president of

, Karlo Miklyosh (former member of Ukraina Lwow), the name of stadium was changed to "Ukraina". In 1999, the stadium was renovated in preparation to the Karpaty's participation in the

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, after which the stadium's capacity was reduced to 28,051. In 2007, a new grass pitch was installed at the stadium. Ukraina also has four

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towers with lighting power of 1,200 lux.

Ukraine national team matches

References

External links

* Senkiv, A.
How comfortable to attend the UPL games: Ukraina Stadium (Наскільки комфортно ходити на матчі УПЛ: стадіон "Україна")
Football 24. 15 March 2017 FC Karpaty Lviv Football venues in Lviv Multi-purpose stadiums in Ukraine {{Ukraine-sports-venue-stub