MOSCOW, August 20, Alena Sulizova. The ceremony of installing the first pile of the Torpedo stadium » named after Eduard Streltsov took place on Tuesday, the main stage of construction of the arena on Vostochnaya Street in Moscow began, a correspondent reports from the scene. According to experts, the process of installing piles is silent, there will be 4.5 thousand of them. Representatives of the Torpedo football club attended the ceremony : President Ilya Gerkus, head coach Nikolai Savichev, chairman of the council of veterans Vyacheslav Zhendarev, football players Alexander Ryazantsev and Igor Lebedenko. In his welcoming speech, Gerkus noted that the stadium is a special place. «This is a palace, a temple, a theater where a girl, children, grandchildren are taken,» he said. On behalf of the veterans of the club, Zhendarev thanked the management, shareholders, the Moscow government and the builders.
