Minsk Sports Palace

Minsk Sports Palace is an indoor sports arena, located in Minsk, Belarus. The arena seats 4,842 spectators and opened in May 1966. It hosts various indoor events, including HC Dynamo Minsk and the Kontinental Hockey League before Minsk-Arena was completed. It also hosted Miss Supranational on September 6, 2013.

The project draft of the National Sports Palace was designed by the institute "Belgosproekt" team: the main architect Filimonov S.D., architect Malyshev V.N., and the chief engineer of the project Korzhevsky V.V.. Construction lasted from September 1963 to May 1966. The project featured the asymmetrical arrangement of the grandstands and the concert stage on the opposite side of the playground. This decision, coupled with the use of prefabricated grandstands, allowed to transform the arena into a concert hall. The project became a model for other sport palaces and was reimplemented in Chelyabinsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Volgograd, and Vilnius. In 1984, the Palace of Sports was included in the list of historical and cultural monuments of the BSSR.

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