CSKA Arena (russian: ЦСКА Арена), formerly known as VTB Ice Palace (russian: ВТБ Ледовый дворец) and Legends Park (russian: Парк Легенд), is an indoor multi-sport venue that is located in Moscow, Russia. Its main sponsor is

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. CSKA Arena is a part of the Park of Legends renovation project on the former

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auto plant site. It includes the Arena, the Russian Hockey Museum with the Russian Hockey Hall of Glory, Watersport Arena, and Apartments Complex. It is located nearby the

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MCC and Avtozavodskaya Metro station.

History

The Ice Palace opened on April 26, 2015. It has been the home arena for KHL's club

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since 2018. From 2015 it was the home stadium for the

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ice hockey team Dynamo Moscow before they moved into their newly built own

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in January 2019. From 2017 to 2021, it was the home arena for Spartak Moscow before they announced plans to move into another Moscow Sports Palace Megasport. In 2015, five of six matches of Channel One Cup were played in the Arena. In 2016, the arena hosted games of the

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Venues

The facility features three different indoor arenas, the "Large Arena," the "Small Arena," and a training facility. The large arena has a seating capacity of 12,100 viewers for

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and

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, 13,000 for

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and 14,000 for

wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat s ...

boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...

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, and concerts. The small arena has a seating capacity of 3,500 viewers for ice hockey and figure skating, 4,400 for basketball and 5,000 for wrestling, boxing, , MMA, and concerts. The third arena, the training arena, has a capacity of 500.

Gallery

2015 C1C - VTB Ice Palace inside panorama.jpg, Channel One Cup (Sector 202) IIHF16WC - NOR v KAZ panorama.jpg, 2016 IIHF World Championship (Sector 212) Former ZIL area Moscow asv2018-01 img5.jpg, Aerial photo of former ZiL plant, Moscow (2018) VTB Ice Palace1.jpg

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* {{IIHF World Championship venues Basketball venues in Russia Boxing venues in Russia HC Dynamo Moscow

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Indoor arenas in Russia Music venues in Russia Indoor ice hockey venues in Russia Kontinental Hockey League venues Sports venues completed in 2015 Sports venues in Moscow 2015 establishments in Russia

History

Venues

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