The Kazakhstan Sports Palace ( kk, Qazaqstan sport saraiy) is a palace of sports located in Astana, Kazakhstan. It serves as the home for

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and

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of the Kazakhstan Hockey Championship and

Snezhnye Barsy The Snow Leopards Astana, Also known As Snezhnye Barsy, ( kk, Qar Barystary Nur-Sultan, Қар Барыстары Нұр-Сұлтан; russian: Снежные Барсы; en, Snow Leopards) is a Professional ice hockey team from Astana. They comp ...

junior hockey team of the

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. The arena seats 4,070 spectators for ice hockey.

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. The Kazakhstan Sports Palace is one of the first sports venues in Nur-Sultan and is used for mass sport. The building contains a

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, a

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, an

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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 The 2011 Asian Winter Games ( kz, 2011 жылғы қысқы Азия ойындары, 2011 jılğı qısqı Azïya oyındarı) was a multi-sport event that was held in Nur-Sultan, Astana and Almaty, Kazakhstan, that began on January 30, 2011, an ...

. 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

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

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with 12,000 seats. It opened for the 2015-16 KHL season.

References

External links

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Kazakhstan Sports Palace on the Google Maps
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