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Olimp-2 (, Olympus-2) is a
football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
stadium A stadium (: stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage completely or partially surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit ...
in
Rostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East European Plain on the Don River, from the Sea of Azov, directly north of t ...
, Russia. From 1930 to 2018 it was the home ground of
FC Rostov FC Rostov () is a Russian professionalism in association football, professional football club based in Rostov-on-Don. The club competes in the Russian Premier League, playing their home matches at the Rostov Arena. History Soviet era (1930-199 ...
, and in 1958–1970 it was also the home ground of SKA Rostov-on-Don. The stadium opened in 1930 and was known as ''
Rostselmash Rostselmash () is a Russian agricultural equipment company, based in Rostov-on-Don. Founded in 1929, it primarily produces combine harvesters. The company income in 2005 was around 400 million dollars. The company name is a syllabic abbreviation o ...
Plant Stadium'' until 1996 when it was known as ''Rostselmash''. Between 2002 and 2005 it was known as ''Olimp – 21 vek'' ''(Olympus – 21st century)''. Since 2021 it is known as the
Viktor Ponedelnik Viktor Vladimirovich Ponedelnik (, 22 May 1937 – 5 December 2020) was a Russian footballer and manager, who played for the Soviet Union national team. Biography Ponedelnik first started playing for a local team, Rostselmash, in 1956. In ...
's "Olimp" (Олимп имени Виктора Понедельника). The capacity of the stadium peaked at 32,000 in the 1950s, when the second tier of stand was built. Its current capacity, after the latest reconstruction was completed in 2009, stands at 15,840.


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