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General information

The Platinum Arena is a multilevel building with the area of 27,000 m² and the volume of 310,000 m³. The height of the building is 50m. The volume of monolithic concrete totals 27,000 m³. The glazing area of the facade is about 5,000 m³. The area of the interior natural stone lining is equal to 14,000 m². The area of the exterior panel facing is 12,000 m². During the construction period 5,000 m³ of brickwork were laid and 3000 piles were driven. The building frame is made of steel. Foundations are pile ones. The outer brick walls with heat insulation are faced with natural stone and other modern construction materials. Load-bearing elements of the roof are steel arched trusses (girders) with span lengths of 72 m, 54 m and 39 m. The height of the main hall up to the bottom chord of the trusses is 17 metres.

The building of the Platinum Arena consists of two main facilities: universal hall with the ice arena and stands for spectators and training skating-rink of the ice-hockey school. The main parts are interconnected by means of a three-storied link building.

In plan view the universal hall looks like a rectangle of 102 meters by 72 meters in the center of which there is an ice field (60 m x 30 m). Along the perimeter of the ice field there are seatings for 7,100 spectators.

A three-storied spacious room under the spectators seatings houses :

 

• box offices,
• lobbies with cloakrooms and restrooms,
• coffee shops and bars,
• cloakrooms, press room and guest rooms ,
• conference hall seating 40 people,
• VIP rooms,
• boxes for the disabled,
• premises for the administration of the Platinum Arena and management quarters of the Amur ice-hockey club,
• referee's rooms,
• medical diagnostics rooms,
• coach rooms, locker rooms,
• garage for the ice-hockey team bus,
• technical and equipment facilities providing maintenance work on the sports and entertainment complex.

In the link building there are:

• technical and equipment facilities on the first floor,
• gymnasium and choreography hall, locker rooms, cafe stockroom and storage room on the second floor,
• restaurant "Overtime" on the third floor.

The main hall contains 7,100 spectators' seats, 4 VIP-boxes and commentator's box. The hall is fitted with a 30х60m ice-hockey rink /box manufactured by DACO company. In the center of the hall there is a score-board provided with four TV screens of 12m 2 (3x4m) each and four information LED boards, the board area of each being 4m 2 (2x2m). Provision is made of a reserve score-board supplied by "Nevco Scoreboard Company ". Lighting equipment and acoustic systems are mounted on the bottom chord of trusses of the ceiling.

Spectators may walk around the main hall via the lobbies of the second floor. 8 cafes, 24 vending machines are available to spectators in the foyer. "ALL STARS " stationary coffee shop is at visitors' service as well. In lobbies and foyer there are TV sets installed for spectators to follow broadcasting of sports events and shows. Ventilation and air conditioning systems allow to ensure the set temperature and climate conditions both in the hall and foyer at any weather.

In the apparatus room next to the main arena there is a videostudio. The videostudio facilities allow to organize broadcasting to the rink videocube and TV sets in lobbies. During sports events or shows the videostudio broadcasts both an event itself and advertisement.

In plan view a training skating-rink of an ice-hockey school represents a 72 х 39 metres rectangle located at right angle to the main arena. At three levels along one of the two short sides of the training skating-rink there lie 8 locker rooms for children's teams, shower rooms, a drying room, a premise for skates sharpening, a first-aid post and a class-room. The training-skating rink is intended to hold matches and training of children's ice-hockey school teams, teams of masters, amateur teams and mass skating. The skating-rink is equipped with an ice-hockey box of South Korean production, an electronic LED score- board supplied by "HAN IL DISPLAY Co. Ltd.", and an acoustic system "DYNACORD". The training skating-rink may seat 401 spectators.

The beautifully lined with natural stone foyers of the first and second storeys have the area of 1,000m 2 and 700m 2 respectively. They may be used to hold cultural and sports events, namely, to organize exhibitions, to hold banquets with smorgasbord and, on special occasions, to arrange New Year Parties and performances for children. During sports tournaments the foyers are spacious enough to dispose a press center.

Box offices adjoin the foyer of the first storey. Each of four box offices is equipped with an electronic system for selling tickets. A customer is given a visual information on availability of seats - the seating diagrams are shown on a monitor screen. Electronic system allows to determine a number of vacant seats in different sectors, to sell tickets for different events simultaneously. The system guarantees that any customer who buys a ticket is safe against the sale of the same ticket to another customer.

One year of operation of the electronic system for selling ticket has resulted in setting some interesting records:

• On November 10, 2003 within 10 work hours only one booking office sold 5,651 tickets.
• On January 15, 2004 within 10 work hours four booking offices sold 8,480 tickets for the total sum of more than one million roubles.
• During the 2003-2004 ice-hockey season all tickets were sold out for 24 matches.
• Although simultaneously tickets were being sold for 32 events.