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Sokolniki Arena
Sokolniki Sports Palace
Location	Moscow, Russia
Capacity	5,000
Construction
Opened	1956
Renovated	1973
Website
	www.sokolniki.info

Sokolniki Arena or Sokolniki Sports Palace is a former indoor sporting arena located in Moscow, Russia. It is located in the Sokolniki District of the city. Initially it was an outdoor skating rink, roofed in 1973 during the preparations for the 1973 Summer Universiade. The capacity of the arena is 5,000.^{[citation needed]}

The Sokolniki Sports Palace was a venue of handball tournament for the 1980 Summer Olympics. It is the home arena of the HK Lokomotiv Moscow ice hockey team.^{[citation needed]}

The Sokolniki Arena was demolished in December 2021.

Tragedy

On March 10, 1975, at a friendly match between Soviet and Canadian youth hockey teams at the Sokolniki Arena, at least 20 people were killed in a stampede after the lights went out.^[1]

Notes

^ Lev Ivanov, "Удавили за жвачку," Svobodnaya pressa, Jan. 6, 2011. (N.b.: David Goldblatt, in various books, e.g., The Ball Is Round and World Soccer Yearbook 2003-2004, has erroneously claimed this happened at a soccer game in 1985. Canadian players have got contract, that they have to give Russian kids Canadian gum, they got 24 kilos of gum. After the match, Canadians were giving those gum, which is the reason of crowding of the people: People were running while watching at gum only, some of them died because of crowding.)

References

1980 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. pp. 114–7.

External links

Official website of the Sokolniki Sports Palace

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[1] Lev Ivanov, "Удавили за жвачку," Svobodnaya pressa, Jan. 6, 2011. (N.b.: David Goldblatt, in various books, e.g., The Ball Is Round and World Soccer Yearbook 2003-2004, has erroneously claimed this happened at a soccer game in 1985. Canadian players have got contract, that they have to give Russian kids Canadian gum, they got 24 kilos of gum. After the match, Canadians were giving those gum, which is the reason of crowding of the people: People were running while watching at gum only, some of them died because of crowding.)

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