Kazakhstan Sports Palace

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Kazakhstan Sports Palace
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Kazakhstan Sports Palace
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Location Astana, Kazakhstan
Coordinates 51°09′20.61″N71°27′55.01″E / 51.1557250°N 71.4652806°E / 51.1557250; 71.4652806
Capacity Ice hockey: 4,070 [1]
Construction
Built1999–2001
Opened6 March 2001
Renovated2007
Tenants
Barys Astana (KHL) (2001–2015)
Nomad Astana (KAZ) (2009–present)
Snezhnye Barsy (MHL) (2011–present)
HC Astana (KAZ) (2011–present)
2011 Asian Winter Games
Website
www.dskazakhstan.kz

The Kazakhstan Sports Palace (Kazakh : Qazaqstan sport saraiy) is a palace of sports in Astana, Kazakhstan. It is the home of Nomad Astana and HC Astana of the Kazakhstan Hockey Championship, and Snezhnye Barsy junior hockey team of the Junior Hockey League. It seats 4,070 spectators for ice hockey.

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History

The sports palace was built from 1999 to 2001. The palace was opened by the president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev on March 6, 2001. [2] The Kazakhstan Sports Palace is one of the first sports venues in Astana and is used for mass sport. The building contains a swimming pool, a health club, an ice hockey rink and many other amateur sports clubs. Until 2008 the hockey arena was used for multi-purpose events, such as boxing and basketball events. Until 2015, the arena hosted home games for Barys Astana.

The sports palace was reconstructed for hosting Men's ice hockey tournament of the 2011 Asian Winter Games. Ice hockey preliminaries actually started two days before the Opening Ceremony of the Games on 30 January. The matches played in the main and newly built minor arena with 1,200 seats. Currently, the minor arena is the home arena for HC Astana of the Kazakhstan Hockey Championship.

In 2011, Kontinental Hockey League commissioners declared that this arena is one of the worst in the league. The main reason is the low capacity. Barys Astana managers decided to build the new Barys Arena with 12,000 seats. It opened for the 2015-16 KHL season. [3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Barys Astana's profile". Kontinental Hockey League. Archived from the original on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
  2. ↑ 2001. Один год президента (in Russian). Астана. 2005. p. 187-188. ISBN   9965-27-753-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ↑ Ilyas Omarov (15 January 2014). "Barys Players Join KHL Stars on Ice in Bratislava". The Astana Times. Archived from the original on 10 December 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2014.

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