Palace of Sports, Kiev
| Палац Спорту | |
 | |
| Location | Shevchenko, Kiev, Ukraine |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 50°26′14″N 30°31′20″E / 50.43722°N 30.52222°ECoordinates: 50°26′14″N 30°31′20″E / 50.43722°N 30.52222°E |
| Public transit |
Kiev Metro:   |
| Owner | Kyivskyi Palats Sportu CJSC |
| Capacity |
Concerts: 10,000 Ice hockey: ≤7,000 |
| Field size | 66 m x 102 m |
| Surface | floor/ice variable |
| Construction | |
| Opened | December 9, 1960 |
| Renovated | 1982, 2011 |
| Architect | Mykhailo Hrechyna, O. Zavarov |
The Palace of Sports (Ukrainian: Палац Спорту, Palats Sportu) is a sport-concert complex situated in the center of Kiev, Ukraine. The complex is an independent state enterprise.
History
It was built in 1960, to design of Mykhailo Hrechyna and Oleksiy Zavarov, as a major indoor sports arena.
- Architecture: Constructivism Architecture, an artistic movement sporting mostly simple geometric forms.
- Capacity: 10,000 people for both the Eurovision Song Contest semi-final and final in 2005. Additionally 2,000 press delegates were catered for.
Events
The venue hosts indoor sports games, concerts, major exhibitions and trade fairs.
It hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, which required the facilities to be brought up to the standard, required by the European Broadcasting Union. Also, the 2009 Junior Eurovision Song Contest was hosted in the venue. This means that the venue is the first and only venue to date to have hosted both the Eurovision Song Contest and the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
The Sports Palace is also a popular venue for concerts, having been the venue for Didier Marouani and Space on 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 of July 1983, Ace of Base, Backstreet Boys, Black Eyed Peas, Britney Spears, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, A-ha, Jamiroquai, Jean Michel Jarre, Moby, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Muse, Placebo, Limp Bizkit, The Rasmus, Christina Aguilera, Anastacia, Lenny Kravitz, Chris Rea, Lara Fabian, Depeche Mode, Sting, Marilyn Manson, The Prodigy and others.
External links
- Official website (in Ukrainian)
| Events and tenants | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Abdi İpekçi Arena Istanbul |
Eurovision Song Contest Venue 2005 |
Succeeded by Olympic Indoor Hall Athens |
| Preceded by Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Centre Limassol |
Junior Eurovision Song Contest Venue 2009 |
Succeeded by Minsk Arena Minsk |
| Preceded by Tivoli Hall Ljubljana |
IIHF World Championship Division I Venue 2011 |
Succeeded by Krynica Ice Stadium Krynica |
| Preceded by Spodek Katowice |
IIHF World Championship Division I Venue 2017 |
Succeeded by László Papp Budapest Sports Arena Budapest |
