![\"Petrovsky](\"http:\/\/www.stadiumguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/petrovsky_top.jpg\" "\\"Petrovsky")
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Club: none\u00a0| Opening: 1925 | Capacity: 21,500 seats<\/p>\n
Petrovsky Stadium opened on the 26th of July 1925. The first football match was played two weeks later when a team from St. Petersburg (Leningrad) took on a team from Kharkiv (5-1). As Vladimir Lenin had died only one year earlier, the stadium was named V. Lenin Stadium in his honour.<\/p>\n
The initial capacity was 10,000, but already in 1933 the stadium got expanded to a capacity of 25,000.<\/p>\n
In the Second World War the stadium got heavily damaged as the reserve pitch was used for anti-aircraft artillery. It took until 1957 for the stadium to be reconstructed as the city was most of all focusing on building the massive Kirov Stadium.<\/p>\n
After the Lenin Stadium had gotten rebuilt, it counted with a capacity of just over 30,000 seats. Few football was played at the stadium though, as Zenit played its home matches at the Kirov Stadium.<\/p>\n
The stadium underwent a last major renovation in the late 1970s to make the stadium ready for the 1980 Olympic games, during which it hosted several matches of the football tournament and served as a training base.<\/p>\n