Luzhniki Sports Palace

Luzhniki Sports Palace
The Luzhniki Sports Palace in Moscow
Earlier names
Lenin Sports Palace (1956–1991)
Data
place	Moscow , Russia
Coordinates	55 ° 43 '20 "  N , 37 ° 32' 51"  E Coordinates: 55 ° 43 '20 "  N , 37 ° 32' 51"  E
opening	1956
surface	Parquet ice PVC - Flooring
capacity	11,500 seats
playing area	60 х 31 m (ice hockey)
Events
Games of HC Dynamo Moscow (1956-2000) Games of HK Spartak Moscow (2016-2017) Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR 1956, 1959, 1963, 1967, 1971, 1979 Ice Hockey World Championship 1957 Gymnastics World Championships 1958 1959 women's basketball world championship World Championships in Modern Pentathlon 1961 Women's volleyball world championship 1962 Men's volleyball world championship 1962 European Boxing Championships 1963 European Figure Skating Championships 1965 European basketball championship 1965 Fencing World Championships 1966 European table tennis championship 1970 Summit Series 1972 Ice Hockey World Championship 1973 1973 Summer Universiade Summit Series 1974 World Championships in Modern Pentathlon 1974 1975 World Weightlifting Championships European Weightlifting Championships 1975 Ice Hockey World Championship 1979 1980 Summer Olympics ( judo , gymnastics ) World Judo Championships 1983 Friendship competitions 1984 Ice Hockey World Championship 1986 Goodwill Games 1986 World Youth Games 1998 European Futsal Championship 2001 World Figure Skating Championships 2005

The Sports Palace Luschniki ( Russian Дворец спорта Лужники , Dworez sporta Luzhniki ), formerly also called Lenin Sports Palace ( Russian Дворец спорта имени В. И. Ленина ) is a sports hall in the Russian capital Moscow .

location

The hall is located in the Luzhniki Olympic site (Russian: Олимпийский комплекс "Лужники", Olimpijski kompleks "Luzhniki" ), which was built for the 1980 Summer Olympics .

The Sports Palace can be reached by metro via the Sportivnaya ( Russian : Спортивная) stop .

History and use

The hall was built with a capacity of 13,700 spectators, but today only 11,500 people can watch sports and cultural events there after the area of ​​the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium was renovated.

In the past, world and European championships in ice hockey , gymnastics , volleyball , basketball , etc. were held here.

The Малая спортивная арена Лужники ( Small Luzhniki Sports Arena )

In the 2000s, the sports palace was mainly used for major sporting events, such as the Rosno Cup in ice hockey . The HK Dynamo Moscow ice hockey team played most of their home games between 2000 and 2015 in the smaller hall ("Малая лужники спортивная арена"), which is also part of the Olympic complex and has a capacity of 8,700 at sporting events and 6,700 for concerts. In 2015 the HK Dynamo moved into the newly built VTB Ice Palace with up to 14,000 seats.

Before the 2016/17 season, KHL participant HK Spartak Moscow moved to the Malaja Arena of the Sports Palace before leaving the venue for the following season.

Web links

• Pictures Sportpalast Luzhniki
• Pictures Malaya Arena Luzhniki

Individual evidence

1. ↑ en.khl.ru: Dynamo Moscow on the KHL website (English)
2. ↑ stadionwelt.de: Park of Legends: Ice Palace before opening Article from April 11, 2015
3. ↑ parklegends.ru: "Арена Легенд" получит название "ВТБ Ледовый дворец" ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article of April 6, 2015 (Russian)