New Arenas in the KHL-VHL-MHL Part II
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Caser
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Does anyone have a photo of the arena in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk? It's a small arena, not a big one, but I think it's the first one in that place. The team there plays in the Asian league, which is interesting. It may have a buddy club in Kamchatka now(or well, soon). 
Does anyone have a photo of the arena in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk? It's a small arena, not a big one, but I think it's the first one in that place. The team there plays in the Asian league, which is interesting. It may have a buddy club in Kamchatka now(or well, soon).
Pretty good rise in number of rinks in Russia. Read somewhere that the plan is to build around 700 rinks. Anyone know anything about that?
The question is are these figures correct or are they false to some extent?
For Russia's size, they should aim for 1000 rinks, in my opinion. Of course, some of those rinks would be small ones, some having as low as 500 seat capacity. Every university for example could have a rink. Every small town should have a rink, every big city should have multiple rinks. This would be a huge infrastructural investment... so it should be a long term sort of goal.
I asked some person who follows/knows hockey more than me about this rink statistic... they suggested that maybe there is this big increase in number of rinks due to the olympics in sochi?
Galactica Park Arena
Hello can anyone give me information on a KHL team playing in AEG'S GALACTICA PARK ARENA? Thank You
Hello can anyone give me information on a KHL team playing in AEG'S GALACTICA PARK ARENA? Thank You
Galactica Park Arena
Hello can anyone give me information on a KHL team playing in AEG'S GALACTICA PARK ARENA? Thank You
Hello can anyone give me information on a KHL team playing in AEG'S GALACTICA PARK ARENA? Thank You
A quick google search indicates that no team plays there, and that this is not built yet. It may be finished in 2018, but I am not even sure if this project is a done deal or not.
edit/add: the only news source on this that I find is from 2012, so that's kinda old. As nothing pops up since that time, I think it's a fair guess to assume that this project is not in the works.
Caser
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I believe the increase of the rink number is mainly because the construction of smaller rinks (less than 200 seats or no seats at all) has been rather intense recently, as those are rather cheap and fast to construct. For example, recent opening of the Tropic Arena in Tula. I think I was able to find more similar examples, when I googled regional news sites some time ago, so projects like this might be rather widespread.
Peter25
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Yes. New arenas/rinks and increasing number of juniors should make the game stronger in Russia.
Caser
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Visualization of the project:
If I understand correctly, it is expected somewhere in 2021.
That's a very old rendering of the image... who knows if that is still accurate/ up do date, or what...
The actual thing, if it gets done, or even started in any manner, may look very different.
The actual thing, if it gets done, or even started in any manner, may look very different.
Caser
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Yes, it's 2 years old, but since they paid good money for the project, I doubt that they will make a completely new one every two years, although who knows.
Acallabeth
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And, specially for Loppa, neither the helicopter nor the balloons are included 
Building the arena near that bridge would be a disaster. There's already a huge, enormous traffic trouble there.
Building the arena near that bridge would be a disaster. There's already a huge, enormous traffic trouble there.
Caser
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I believe it was a part of the project though, as I was reading that they paid some Norvegian guys for the project itself (and not just for the concept).
And, specially for Loppa, neither the helicopter nor the balloons are included
Building the arena near that bridge would be a disaster. There's already a huge, enormous traffic trouble there.
That's the October bridge, right? But yes, city center doesn't sound like a perfect place for the arena. Although google maps still show that you can get to it from Berdsk at around an hour in the heavy traffic hours, so that doesn't sound that bad.
Acallabeth
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Yes, this is October/Oktyabrskiy bridge. You sometimes need an hour just to cross it, and the jam of cars coming from the right shore of Novosibirsk to the left one (~600k people on a relatively small territory) in the evening (when the games start) is glorious. Studencheskaya metro station would be our only hope.
I understand though, Novosib is a large city, it will be even harder for half of it to get to the arena if it's built in a suburb.
It looks like Sibir, Automobilist and Torpedo are going to get new arenas. Does anybody have news on Spartak and CSKA Moscow? What about the Mega sport arena?
When Dynamo's new arena is ready then VTB Ice Palace could go to Spartak or CSKA if they drag their feet on building the new one.
Megasport has opened its doors again a couple of day ago. No news about who'll play hockey there.
