Construction worker dead after the collapse of Russian stadium. It was a venue for Madonna and Lady Gaga

He is 29 years old Matvey Kucherov from the Russian city of Petrozavodsk.  His dead body was found among the debris. 

A second worker at the mesh of the crane escaped alive.

The criminal case is not initiated yet.

The SKK stadium was opened in 1980. Apart from stadium for sports events it also served as a venue for international stars like Madonna, Shakira, Justin Bieber, and Lady Gaga. The officials want to build world’s largest ice arena on the site of SKK. The local activists protested to save an 'icon of Soviet neoconstructivist architecture'.

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