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The rise and fall of Moscow’s majestic Olimpiyskiy Stadium Valery Sharifulin/TASS; mos.ru ‘Olimpiyskiy’ was a particular building that literally united sports and a discount center under one roof. The 1980 Summer Olympic Games in the USSR were unique: they were the first Games to be held in Eastern Europe and in a socialist country. The USSR administration engaged major preparations: 78 objects were built. One of them was the ‘Olimpiyskiy’ (“Olympic”) sports complex located near Prospect Mira in the north-east of Moscow. The building was constructed on the site of an open stadium called ‘Burevestnik’ (“Petrel”). But the territory of the small arena wasn’t big enough for an Olympic complex, so the adjacent neighborhood of three lanes with old and, in places, wooden houses were demolished, together with a chemical-metallurgical plant.