The Kharkiv Sports Palace, located near the metro station of the same name at Petra Grigorenko Avenue, 2, was built based on a modified standard design project, 2S-09-35.

The authors of the standard design ‘Indoor Exhibition Ice Rink’ were the architects of ‘Soyuzsportproekt’ M.A. Aristov and Y.A. Regentov, and engineer S.N. Badmaeva. The design provided for a versatile, convertible hall seating 4,500 spectators, where not only sporting competitions and performances took place on the artificial ice rink (61×30 m), but also concerts and competitions in other sports (e.g., volleyball).

A total of 24 buildings were constructed under this design (most of them in the 1960s), five of which are in Ukraine. The buildings could differ in minor details (mosaics, bas-reliefs, interior finishes).

The architect S. Nosovitskaya of ‘Kharkivproekt’ and engineer L. Bunderkevich worked on the design of the Kharkiv Sports Palace. It was built from the late 1960s until 1977.

Particularly noteworthy is the mosaic by an unknown artist featuring the phrase “Oh, Sport! You are the world!”, which is particularly poignant today.

In the early 1980s, an additional wing was opened, housing a training rink and a small ice rink (30×15 m), connected to the main building by a passageway.

The Kharkiv Palace of Sport is an iconic venue where, arguably, every resident of Kharkiv has been.

Olympic athletes were prepared here, and children were trained. In addition to sporting competitions, the Palace of Sport hosted concerts and exhibitions on a wide variety of themes.

The Kharkiv Sports Palace was severely damaged by Russian ballistic missile strikes on September 1, 2024.

The Severodonetsk Ice Palace, built to a similar design, was destroyed as a result of Russian shelling in the summer of 2022.