Konovalenko Sports Palace
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Konovalenko Sports Palace is an indoor sporting arena located in Nizhny Novgorod
, Russia
. The capacity of the arena is 4,300 and opened in 1967. It was the home arena of the Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
ice hockey
team of the Russian Super League until the Trade Union Sport Palace
opened in 2007.
Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is, with the population of 1,250,615, the fifth largest city in Russia, ranking after Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
. The capacity of the arena is 4,300 and opened in 1967. It was the home arena of the Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod is an ice hockey club in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League....
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 of the Russian Super League until the Trade Union Sport Palace
Trade Union Sport Palace
Trade Union Sport Palace is an indoor sporting arena located in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. The capacity of the arena is 5,500 after the repair in 2007. It is the home arena of the Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod ice hockey team of the Kontinental Hockey League. The arena replaced Konovalenko Sports Palace...
opened in 2007.