Ice Palace of Sports Uralets

Yekaterinburg is known as a city of mass cultural entertainment. One of the institutions of this kind is the Ice Palace of Sports "Uralets". It was designed and built by architect L.P. Vinogradov in 1972. At that time it was called the Palace of Sports of Trade Unions. The total area was 20 thousand square meters, and the number of invited guests was about 4000 people.

During the Soviet Union, the palace was of great importance: a huge number of various all-Union competitions took place here, the finals of the III and IV Winter Spartakiad of the peoples of the USSR.

In 2006, the building was completely renovated, increasing the number of seats to 5,570. Reconstruction modernized the building technically and allowed to hold events in figure skating, hockey.

Ice Palace of Sports "Uralets" performs the functions not only of an entertainment complex, but also acts as the home arena of the men's hockey club "Avtomobilist", the city of Yekaterinburg. In addition, the palace is operated by the women’s hockey team Spartak – Mercury for various matches.

Sports sections of the palace are happy to be visited by both adults and children.