Palace "Ukraine", Multi-purpose hall in Pecherskyi District, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Palace Ukraine is a trapezoidal building 28 metres tall with over 300 rooms, opened in 1970 on Velyka Vasylkivska Street. Its main concert hall seats 3,714 in an amphitheatre with a single balcony tier. The facade has tall cream-coloured vertical fins above a concrete base with advertising banners.
The building opened in 1970 initially serving Communist Party congresses before becoming a cultural performance venue. This dual purpose shaped its early identity and role in the community.
The palace's name is tied to the metro station "Palats Ukraina" next to it. Since 1997 it has hosted the Miss Europe pageant, Leonid Kuchma's 1999 presidential inauguration, the 2013 Junior Eurovision Song Contest and a 2017 Dota 2 tournament. Its stage has featured Pavarotti, Rotaru, Sting and Scorpions.
The palace stands at Velyka Vasylkivska Street 103 in the Pechersk district, next to the metro station named after it, Palats Ukraina. The main entrance is reached by stone steps from the pavement, and the recessed ground level sits behind a band of advertising banners. The main hall is arranged as an amphitheatre with a single balcony tier.
Construction began without official permission: party leader Petro Shelest disguised the plans sent to Moscow as those of a mere concert hall, since a building on the scale of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses would not have been approved. The original design was also cut in seating capacity so as not to exceed Moscow's Kremlin hall.
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