Palace of Sports, Kyiv

The Palace of Sports (Ukrainian: Палац Спорту, romanized: Palats Sportu [pɐˈɫat͡s ˈspɔrtʊ]) is an indoor sport-concert complex situated in the center of Kyiv, Ukraine.

It was built between 1958 and 1960, to design of Mykhailo Hrechyna and Oleksiy Zavarov, as a major indoor sports arena and was opened on 9 December 1960.

The lighting and technical facilities were almost completely modernized, the interiors and halls were expanded and otherwise illuminated, the palace was equipped with numerous changing rooms and sideboards.

[10] It hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, which required the facilities to be brought up to the standard stipulated by the European Broadcasting Union.

The Sports Palace is also a popular venue for concerts, having been the venue for Didier Marouani and Space on 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 of July 1983, Ace of Base, Backstreet Boys, Black Eyed Peas, Britney Spears, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, A-ha, Jamiroquai, Jean Michel Jarre, Moby, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Muse, Placebo, Limp Bizkit, The Rasmus, Christina Aguilera, Anastacia, Lenny Kravitz, Chris Rea, Lara Fabian, Depeche Mode, Sting, Marilyn Manson, The Prodigy and others.