Luzhniki_Palace_of_Sports

Luzhniki Palace of Sports

Luzhniki Palace of Sports

Sporting arena in Moscow

Luzhniki Palace of Sports, formerly the Palace of Sports of the Central Lenin Stadium, is a sports arena in Moscow, Russia, a part of the Luzhniki Olympic Complex. Built in 1956, it originally had a spectator capacity of 13,700. In the past it was the host site of the world and European championships in ice hockey, gymnastics, volleyball, basketball, boxing, skateboarding and other sports.

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It hosted several games during the 1972 Summit Series tournament between the Soviet Union and Canada and was a venue for gymnastics and judo events at the 1980 Summer Olympics.[1]

In 2002, the arena experienced a major reconstruction and the seating capacity was lowered to 11,500. The arena subsequently hosted the 2005 World Figure Skating Championships. It was primarily used for ice hockey as the home arena for HC Dynamo Moscow until the year 2000,[2] in which the club moved to Luzhniki Small Sports Arena.[2]

Notable sporting events

Notable concerts

See also

References

  1. [1]
    1980 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. Part 1. pp. 58–60.
  2. [2]
    Стадион Archived 2009-05-19 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
  3. [3]
    History of the palace of the sport Archived 2008-10-22 at the Wayback Machine(in Russian)

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