What do you need to know about this year's location of Eurovision? It is Moscow at Olympiyski Indoor Arena. This stadium was built for the 1980 Summer Olympics and hosted the basketball and boxing events. The maximum capacity is 80,000 and it has hosted the Davis Cup finals on several occasions and is the home of the Kremlin tournament.
With four weeks left before the contest starts, the preparations at Olypiyski Indoor Arena are in full swing. Truss, lights, sound equipment, stage elements.. this happened in the last period. The first big challenge was the creation of the so-called mother grid, a construction made of four kilometers of steel to carry the main lights and sound equipment in the ceiling of the arena.
Outside the arena, power generators providing over 8 megawatt are placed to ensure plenty of power. A team of graphic designers in London was employed in order to create something original for the 42 entries.
The setting for this year's Eurovision Song Contest is a creation of US-based set designer John Casey.
Info and pictures from http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=2079 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Stadium_(Moscow_arena)
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