who the hell will play there? Sokol, really?
New arena for 12000 people is built in Almaty (Kazakhtan). A little copy of it (3000 people) is also built on the other side of city.
So there is a chance to have another Kazakhtan team in VHL or even KHL.
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The new arena was part of the Novosibirsk bid for the 2023 WJC last month, but it'll be in the planning stage through mid-2018 before it gets to construction. More recent article: https://news.mail.ru/politics/27119683/Are there any news on Novosibirsk project? Just while browsing through The Siberian Times, I saw a piece of news about a new arena to be built in Novosibirsk, which dates back to May 26. It's supposed to be used in a bid to host U20 World Championship in 2023. Did it start or is it still on paper only?
VTB Arena. October 2016.
Looks like the project for a new 10000 seat arena is now on hold (not surprisingly, of course):
So, what about the new Samara arena about which I've read in the news today?
10.000 places?
Nope. No money.