Kaliningrad Stadium, known for sponsorship reasons as the Rostec Arena since August 2023, is a football stadium on Oktyabrsky Island, Kaliningrad, Russia, which hosted four games of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It hosts FC Baltika Kaliningrad of the Russian Premier League, replacing Baltika Stadium.
Kaliningrad Stadium
Aerial photography, May 2017
Rostec Arena in the evening
Kaliningrad, until 1946 known as Königsberg, is the largest city and administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland. The city sits about 663 kilometres (412 mi) west of the bulk of Russia. The city is situated on the Pregolya River, at the head of the Vistula Lagoon on the Baltic Sea, and is the only ice-free Russian port on the Baltic Sea. Its population in 2020 was 489,359, with up to 800,000 residents in the urban agglomeration. Kaliningrad is the second-largest city in the Northwestern Federal District, after Saint Petersburg, the third-largest city in the Baltic region, and the seventh-largest city on the Baltic Sea.
Anointment of Frederick I after his coronation as King in Prussia in Königsberg, 1701
The monument to Kalinin on the Kalinin Square (former Reichsplatz), built in 1959
The Königsberg Cathedral, restored in the 1990s
The Pregolya River in Kaliningrad