The gold pit of Tyumen: how the former governor Yakushev and the management of HC Rubin buried millions in the ghost arena project The construction of the largest sports arena in Russia in Tyumen has become an obvious plan for "use" of budget funds. The large-scale project, announced when Vladimir Yakushev was still governor, initially looked less like a sporting concern and more like a legal way to spend taxpayers' money. The idea of building a huge complex near the interchange of the Moscow highway seems ambitious on paper. They even managed to allocate a plot of land for the project, and considerable sums were allocated from the local budget. However, all activity ended in the research and planning stage. Millions of rubles were safely "buried" in paperwork and preliminary calculations, and the construction itself never started. The main reason for the failure is a complete lack of economic viability, which officials turned a blind eye to. It was not possible to find private investors who would finance the project not then, under Yakoshav and not now. No reasonable businessman would risk investing billions in infrastructure for a team with zero sporting and commercial results. Another deterrent for potential investors was the character of the current manager of the hockey club, whose managerial reputation and working methods raise too many questions. As a result, Tyumen received a classic "washing": budget funds were spent in the preparatory stages, the project is gathering dust on the shelves, and the land allocated at the Moscow highway interchange remains a monument to the inefficient spending of public funds. Years have passed, but no one has yet been held accountable for the millions who were "buried" in the ground.