Sokolniki Arena or Sokolniki Sports Palace is an indoor sporting arena located in Moscow

Moscow

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, Russia

Russia

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. It is located in the Sokolniki District

Sokolniki District

Sokolniki District is a district in Eastern Administrative Okrug of Moscow, Russia; located in the northeast corner of the city. Population:...

 of the city, a fifteen minute walk from Sokolniki metro station

Sokolniki (Metro)

Sokolniki is a Moscow Metro station in Sokolniki District, Eastern Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It is on the Sokolnicheskaya Line, between Krasnoselskaya and Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad stations. It is located under Rusakovskaya street at the foot of Sokolnicheskaya Square and was part of the...

, right by Sokolniki Park

Sokolniki Park

Sokolniki Park, named for the falcon hunt of the Grand Dukes of Muscovy formerly conducted there, is located in the eponymous Sokolniki District of Moscow. Sokolniki Park is not far from the center of the city, near Sokolnicheskaya Gate. The park gained its name from the Sokolnichya Quarter, the...

. Initially it was an outdoor skating rink

Ice rink

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, roofed in 1973 during the preparations for the 1973 Summer Universiade

1973 Summer Universiade

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. The capacity of the arena is 5,000. The Sokolniki Sports Palace was a venue of handball tournament

Handball at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Handball at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by 2 events - a men's and a women's team competitions. They were held in two venues: in the Sokolniki Sports Palace and in the Dynamo Sports Palace at Khimki-Khovrino...

 for the 1980 Summer Olympics

1980 Summer Olympics

The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament...

, including the final. It is the home arena of the HC Spartak Moscow

HC Spartak Moscow

HC Spartak is a professional ice hockey team based in Moscow, Russia. They are members of the Bobrov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League .-History:One of the sections of the Spartak Moscow sports club, HC Spartak Moscow was established in 1946...

 ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

team.

There is a small practice rink located just to the east of the main arena.

Reference

• 1980 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. pp. 114-7.

External links

• Official website of the Sokolniki Sports Palace