Kristall Ice Sports Palace is an
indoor sporting arena that is located in
Saratov, Russia. The arena was originally built in 1969, and was renovated in 2014. The
seating capacity
Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both the physical space available, and limitations set by law. Seating capacity can be used in the description of anything ranging from an automobile that ...
of the arena is 6,100.
History
It has been used as the home arena of the Russian
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice h ...
team
Kristall Saratov of the
Russian 2nd Division. It is also the home arena of the Russian
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
team
Avtodor Saratov,
Arena: KRISTALL ARENA.
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VTB United League (russian: Единая Лига ВТБ) is an international professional men's club basketball league that was founded in 2008. It is made up of mostly Russian clubs, along with one each from Belarus and Kazakhstan. Since 2013, it ...
.
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Venue information
Basketball venues in Russia
Indoor arenas in Russia
Indoor ice hockey venues in Russia
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