Minsk Sports Palace

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, including HC Dynamo Minsk and the Kontinental Hockey League before Minsk-Arena was completed.

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

Nazareth - November 22, 1999

Deep Purple - November 5, 2000 and March 27, 2011

Motörhead - December 4, 2000

Natalia Oreiro - March 13, 2002

Scorpions - November 5, 2002 and November 7, 2008

Whitesnake - November 10, 2004

Accept - April 29, 2005 and March 7, 2011

Zemfira - October 1, 2005 and February 20, 2008

Ronnie James Dio - October 2, 2005

W.A.S.P. - November 8, 2006

Korol i Shut - April 22, 2007, April 20, 2009 and March 28, 2010

Toto Cutugno - November 17, 2007

Bryan Adams - December 2, 2007

Grigory Leps - February 25, 2008

Valery Meladze - March 23, 2008

Europe - March 28, 2008

Thomas Anders - April 18, 2008

Lyapis Trubetskoy - May 9, 2008 and March 9, 2009

Okean Elzy - May 29, 2008 and May 12, 2010

Tarja Turunen - November 4, 2008 and March 4, 2012

Vyacheslav Butusov - December 7, 2008 and May 27, 2010, with U-Piter

Over the Rainbow - February 14, 2009

OneRepublic - November 5, 2014

Sepultura - March 4, 2009

Jethro Tull - March 10, 2009

Smokie - March 28, 2009, December 10, 2010

Valery Kipelov - April 16, 2009, April 29, 2011

Enrique Iglesias - April 24, 2009

Alla Pugacheva - May 7, 2009

Alexander Rybak - September 28, 2009

MakSim - October 17, 2009 & March 2, 2011

Splean - October 25, 2009

Scooter - October 27, 2009

Chris Rea - February 14, 2010

Vanessa-Mae - June 20, 2010

F.R David - February 2, 2013

Limp Bizkit - October 5, 2010 and December 2, 2013

Garou - October 21, 2010

a-ha - November 6, 2010

Vladimir Kuzmin - November 15, 2010

Mumiy Troll - November 24, 2010

Within Temptation - October 26, 2015

References

External links

Venue information

Indoor arenas in Belarus

Indoor arenas built in the Soviet Union

Buildings and structures completed in 1966

Buildings and structures in Minsk

Ice hockey venues in Belarus

Kontinental Hockey League venues

Sports venues completed in 1966

HC Dinamo Minsk