The St.-Petersburg sports & concert centre is a stadium loved by all inhabitants and visitors of the city on the Neva river. Erected in 1979, it is considered to be one of the greatest covered sports & entertainment constructions not only in Russia, but also in Europe.
For the years of its operation the sports & concert centre was attended by 25 millions of people including amateur and professional sports, variety art, exhibition and public events admirers, visitors and participants.
Such events as Good Will Games' 94, hockey, Taekwon-do, ice skating, sports gymnastics, judo World and Europe Championships , famous tournaments on basketball, volleyball, body building, sports dancing, tennis were conducted here. The Open Europe Taekwon-do ITF Tournament " Cup of Peter the Great " is hosted annually in this centre.
The great building of the sports & concert centre, with the seating capacity of 25 thousands of spectators, strikes its size (diameter - 193 m, height - 40 m) and multi-purpose fitness. The football field can be transformed into a hockey rink or a concert stage. The basketball ground can be converted into dancing site with wooden floor or fighting arena covered with carpets.
Spacious change rooms, saunas, sports halls, press centre ensuring connection with any place in the world are located in the lower floor of the building. You can find here bars, restaurants, coffee-shops and sale stores. Singer stars perform here also.
In the year of 1997 spectators applauded the team of St-Petersburg - Taekwon-do world champions. That was the beginning of remarkable victories of our competitors followed their success at the X-th World Taekwon-do Championships held in this centre and considered the best one for the Taekwon-do history.

Tornado 1997-2004