The name "Nagorny" means 'upland' and refers to the arena's location in Upper City (Russian: Наго́рная часть, romanized: Nagórnaya chast', lit.

With a 3,500 seating capacity, it was the first indoor ice hockey arena of its scale to be constructed in a regional center of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR).

Its seating capacity was increased to 5,500, in accordance with the regulations of the Russian Superleague (reorganized as the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) in 2008), and it replaced the V. S. Konovalenko Sports Palace as the home arena of Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod.

After the 2007 renovation and expansion, the arena replaced the V. S. Konovalenko Sports Palace as home of Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod of the Russian Superleague (reorganized as the KHL in 2008).

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