Name: Metalist stadium
Capacity: 35,000
Year Completed: 1926

Completely rebuilt Metalist Stadium is a set of three Group B match. Well-known as “Spiderman”, because the 38,500-capacity ground support its arachnipod roof is located in the southern Kominternovsky area and the best subway reached from the main railway station Sportyvna red line.

Where to go, what to see

You can not fail to note that Russia in Kharkov, eastern Ukraine, which is its superpower neighbor only 20 miles from the border outpost of influence. Residents close to the city of Kharkov, the quarters are ethnic Russians, this is a matter of shame, the Russian national team is not going to do what we can effectively become a ‘home’ game Dick Advocaat Euro 2012 action on both sides of one of his men. However, the reconstruction of the city stadium attractive game will drool, and Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Germany’s Miroslav Klose and the Netherlands Wesley Sneijder set up the riding in Parliament in June in Kazakhstan Zhirkov some of the star’s name.

Russia is the main languages spoken in the city, all the street names, road signs and menus, even in the Ukraine, which is a host city, has taken the time to embrace the deterioration of the rest of the country enjoyed in the past few years, but It has begun to catch up quickly. Kharkov will never be described as a tourist center. Become dust after the Nazis during World War II, the role of the former Soviet Union plant, because it produces steam tractors, tanks, planes, endless, how is this possible.

To this day, still beating heart of the Ukrainian industry, care, electronics, military hardware and turbines, and energy supply business. Place, functional and all of its Soviet-style building, it looks a bit simple, but anyone to think that its only attractions this summer will be the superstar players from Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal football player, may be a surprise. Although this is a working town, is also a dynamic and forward-thinking one.

Technology and innovation to make substantive march in here and the city is not surprising that the majority of students in the Ukraine, increasingly vibrant nightlife, reflecting the thriving clubs and rocks and Indy music scene. Churchill the volcano Darvina Music Club has a higher than average levels of live music every night. On the Lermontovskaya starograd decent on a German beer hall and garden, while the Irish pub (Mironositskaya 46) and Patrick’s Irish Pub (Universitetskaya 2) to avoid the usual cliches of the Emerald Isle, focus on good beer and craic.

A word of jargon, you may need is the the ‘horilka “vodka. The highest concentration of restaurants, they are very affordable, in the volcano Petrovskovo around. Try a European-style cafe-cum-pub 22 (Petrovskovo 22) or welcome Italy, Adriano (the VUL Pushinska 79). Lenin 11 Norma is the delicious local dishes, such as red caviar, borsch (beetroot soup) pancake place.

Two points you must bear in Kharkov tour, including a large number of Ploschad Svobody (Freedom Square), the largest of its kind in all of Europe, this will be the city’s Euro 2012 Fan District, as well as cafes and Sumskaya club, The oldest and most central thoroughfare in town. The PL Konstytutsiyi Kharkov History Museum is also worth a visit is the name of the landmark of the large green city of Shevchenko Park – Ukraine striker Andrii but Taras is a very important 19th-century poet and philosopher named.

An impressive tour of the Opera House afternoon, visit the cultural understanding of football fans, it also will be the Tsentralny the Rynok central market worth checking out organized chaos and outdoor playgrounds, parks Gorkovo. You will soon notice a thing about Kharkov in these billionaire businessman Oleksandr Yaroslavsky, who use its massive financial strength on a map of his city in the heart of regional hegemony. A police officer wealthy industrialist, Yaroslavsky is not only in professional financial services, construction and chemical production, the holding company is responsible, but also identified as political influence, charities and run Metalist, a first-class football club when he large sums of money have been pumped since 2005.

Very simple, the 2012 European Cup will not come to Kharkov Yaroslavsky. Their bid is willing to competition as the main event, as well as its preparations to host the driving force behind his legacy will be huge, especially the new airport terminals to provide a city financial – in the southern suburbs of shut down Prospekt Gagarin found – and The subway system ticks all the boxes: clean, cheap, often with some amazing gorgeous stations.

A journey costs 1.5 the hrivna (referred to as UAH). Kharkov main railway station in the city – and its signature fountain in the front yard – the road a little south east of the cathedral in Poltava. The main bus station south of the town, a stone’s throw from the metro station Prospekt Gagarin.

Bus 119T PR Lenin in the town the middle of running the airport. Kharkov falls you do not love, because it is not a city to inspire a feeling, but it is committed to providing the context of a charming European Championship that will allow supporters to experience a host of different cultural environment in a The unique game.