The long-suffering football stadium "St. Petersburg Arena", which plays its home games of St. Petersburg "Zenith", found the official symbol - Cormorant. This is on Thursday, September 14. the newspaper "Vedomosti" reports with reference to the director of public relations of the club Jeanne Dembo.

According to her, in the stadium will place pointers in the form of seabirds and there will be a growing doll - cormorant.

The publication recalls that for the first time about these pelican-like spoke last summer, the vice-governor of the northern capital, Igor Albin, when he talked about the problem of the roof of a sports facility.

"It would seem that there may be difficulties? It turned out that the protection from birds is not working properly. There is such a well-known bird - cormorant, which, with its powerful beak, destroys the integrity of the film. Cormorants pierce the film with their beaks. In this case, a full-fledged project to protect against birds, by analogy with airports, "- quoted the governor of" Sport-Express "on August 21.

The new stadium on Krestovsky Island on the site of the demolished Kirov name began to be erected specifically as a home arena for FC Zenit in 2007. This St Petersburg construction, probably, would have been built for another 20 years, if Russia had not won the bid for the 2018 World Cup. In this regard, after the start of construction, the project was sent for revision so that the stadium fully complied with FIFA's requirements for capacity and safety.

The arena is designed for 68 thousand. fans, the total area of ??the facility is about 280 thousand. square.

As a result of all the changes, the estimated cost of construction of facilities on Krestovsky Island - the stadium, access control zone and alluvial territories - is 41.7 billion rubles, while the initial construction cost was estimated at 6.7 billion rubles.

Also, it's still unclear how the stadium is called. At various stages of its construction, he was the "football stadium in the western part of the Krestovsky Island", then just "Zenith", then "Zenith Arena", another "Gazprom Arena". Now the object is dangling between the "St. Petersburg Arena" and the "St. Petersburg Stadium". It was the last name that appeared during the holding of the Confederations Cup-2017 in Russia this summer. Recall Petrograders will host the World Cup football matches next year, which will be held from June 14 to July 15. In addition to group games, one of the semifinal matches will take place in St. Petersburg.