Minsk Sports Palace
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| Location | Minsk, Belarus |
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| Capacity | 3,311 |
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| Broke ground | 1963 |
| Opened | 1966 |
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Tivali Minsk (1966–2001) HC Dinamo Minsk (2004–2010) |
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Minsk Sports Palace is an indoor sports arena, located in Minsk, Belarus. The arena seats 4,842 spectators and opened in 1966.
It hosts various indoor events and used to serve as the home of HC Dynamo Minsk, of the KHL, before Minsk-Arena was completed. It also hosted Miss Supranational 2013 on September 6.
The draft of the National Sports Palace was designed by a team of the institute "Belgosproekt": the main architect Filimonov S.D., architect Malyshev V.N., and the chief engineer of the project Korzhevsky V.V. Construction lasted from September 1963 to May 1966. The project featured the asymmetrical arrangement of the grandstands and the concert stage on the opposite side of the playground. This decision, coupled with the use of prefabricated grandstands, allowed to transform the arena into a concert hall. The project became a model and was reimplemented in Chelyabinsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Volgograd, and Vilnius. In 1984 the Palace of Sports was included in the list of historical and cultural monuments of the BSSR.
In the 1960s - 1980s the largest state events were held at the Sports Palace. A lot of allied championships and international tournaments in wrestling, fencing, boxing, weightlifting, rhythmic and artistic gymnastics and other sports were also held there, including matches in the championship hockey club of the Union Dynamo and handball SKA. The Palace was also a venue of the largest concerts and the Communist Party meetings.
In 1990 the Palace premises were leased for various exhibition and sporting events. The stepwise reconstruction of the Palace of Sports was carried out in 2001-2004 including the updated building facades, replaced refrigeration, lighting and sound equipment, introduction of an air conditioning system, new seats, new electronic bulletin board.
Main arena of the Palace of Sport is a universal sport and entertainment room with a hockey box sizes 61x30 meters, which is a few hours transforms into a venue for other sporting event or concert. In this case falls covering protecting ice from melting and the infiltration of cold outside, where the team set the scene, pavement, or laid parquet.
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