The Shigeyoshi Matsumae Stadium in Moscow University was opened on September 1, 1989, on the campus of Moscow University, as the first full-scale stadium having artificial turf in the Soviet Union (at that time). ... The stadium was a gift by Tokai University to Moscow University, as the result of more than 20 years of exchange and friendship between Tokai University and Moscow University in exchanging students and teachers, as well as academic and cultural works since 1973. ...