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Palace of Sports or Sports Palace is the name of comprehensive indoors sports venues introduced in the Soviet Union (compare with Palace of Culture) and still used in a number of post-Soviet states. Many of them had standard architectural design. Some of them were renamed, e.g., into Palace of Concerts and Sports.
The term is also used in other countries. For example, in Hispanophone countries, the term is Palacio de los Deportes.
[edit] Notable Palaces of Sports
[edit] Russia
- Luzhniki Palace of Sports (built in 1956), Moscow, Russia
- Dynamo Sports Palace (1980), Moscow, Russia
- Soviet Wings Sport Palace (1980), Moscow, Russia
- CSCA Palace of Sports (1980), Moscow, Russia
- Sokolniki Sports Palace (1973), Moscow, Russia
- Podmoskovie Sports Palace (1928)
- Yubileyny Sports Palace (1967), St. Petersburg, Russia
- Kuznetskie Metallurgi Sports Palace, Novokuznetsk, Russia.
- Romazan Ice Sports Palace (1992), Magnitogorsk, Russia.
- Universal Sports Palace Molot (late 1980s), Perm, Russia
- Volgar Sports Palace, Togliatti, Russia
- Yunost Sport Palace, Chelyabinsk, Russia.
Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports
- Palace of Sports (Kiev) (built in 1960), Kiev, Ukraine
- Tbilisi Sports Palace {built in 1961), Tbilisi, Georgia
- Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports (1971), Vilnius, Lithuania was included in the "Registry of Cultural Values" in 2006.
- Sports Palace Aukštaitija, Panevėžys, Lithuania
- Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace, Rustenburg, South Africa
- Sports Palace, Belgrade
- Berlin Sportpalast (Berlin Sports Palace), mostly known for its Nazi rallies
[edit] Palacio de los Deportes
Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City
- Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City, Mexico
- Palacio de los Deportes (Heredia), Heredia, Costa Rica
- Palacio de los Deportes Virgilio Travieso Soto, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- Palacio de los Deportes de Torrevieja, Torrevieja, Spain.
- Palacio de los Deportes de La Rioja, Logroño, Spain
[edit] Palacio de Deportes
