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Minsk Sports Palace is an indoor sports arena, located in Minsk, Belarus.[1] The arena seats 4,842 spectators and opened in 1966. It hosts various indoor events, including HC Dynamo Minsk and the Kontinental Hockey League before Minsk-Arena was completed.

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Minsk Sports Palace

Location	Minsk, Belarus
Coordinates	53.910679°N 27.54958°E / 53.910679; 27.54958
Owner	Ministry of Sport and Tourism
Capacity	3,311 (sport) 4,500 (concerts)
Construction
Broke ground	September 1963
Opened	May 1966
Renovated	2001–04
Expanded	1999
Architect	Filimonov S.D. Malyshev V.N.
Structural engineer	Korzhevsky V.V.
Main contractors	Belgosproekt
Tenants
Tivali Minsk (1966–2001) HC Dinamo Minsk (2004–2010)

History

From the 1960s–1980s, the largest state events were held at the Sports Palace. 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 to various exhibition and sporting events.

Buildings

Large arena

The main arena of the Palace of Sports is a universal sport and entertainment room with a hockey box sizes of 61×30 meters. The total capacity of the stands is 3,311 visitors (including the main grandstand - 3,074 seats, small podium - 237 seats) in the sport even version; when the arene is transformed to the concert version, 4,500 spectators can attend the event.

Small arena

In 1999, the indoor training arena was built behind the Sports Palace. The small Sports Palace arena is used mainly as a platform for hockey and figure skating training sessions.

Sporting events

• 1975 World Sambo Championships
• 1975 World Wrestling Championships
• 1986 FIBA World Championship for Women
• 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships
• 2015 AMF Futsal Men's World Cup
• 2019 European Judo Championships

Concerts

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Minsk Sports Palace.

• Official website (in Russian)
• Venue information

На других языках

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- [en] Minsk Sports Palace

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[ru] Дворец спорта (Минск)

«Дворец спорта» (белор. «Палац спорту», полное название «Культурно-спортивное республиканское унитарное предприятие „Дворец спорта“») — многофункциональный спортивно-концертный комплекс в городе Минске, Белоруссия.

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