Samara Arena

The stadium changed its name twice in three years: opened as Samara Arena in 2018, restyled Solidarnost Arena in 2021, and now carries both as Solidarnost Samara Arena — an unusual amount of rebranding for a ground built for a single tournament.

The pitch runs on SISGrass, a hybrid of natural turf reinforced with synthetic fibre, a specification shared with several other 2018 World Cup venues rather than a one-off choice.

Six matches from that tournament were played here, among them Uruguay against Russia on 25 June 2018, which drew 41,970 — still the ground's record football crowd — and the quarter-final between Sweden and England. Krylia Sovetov have used the stadium as their home ground since it opened; from 2024, Akron, based across the river in Tolyatti, began playing home fixtures there too, an arrangement that puts two clubs from different cities under one roof.

Football has not produced the stadium's biggest audience. That came on 18 May 2022, when the opening ceremony of the Russian Student Spring festival drew close to a sell-out crowd of around 45,000, edging past even the World Cup figures. A Leningrad concert on 30 June 2019 pulled in 40,108, ahead of anything the home league programme has managed since.