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26 January 2010 → Turkmenistan President visits Minsk Arena

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov visited the Minsk Arena complex on 25 January, BelTA has learnt.

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov saw a velodrome, a skating rink, a gym, a choreography hall of the complex and talked to young Belarusian tennis players.

The construction of the multifunctional sports and entertainment complex Minsk Arena was launched at the end of 2005 upon the instruction of the head of state. The velodrome was the first to be commissioned. It hosted the UEC European Cycling Track Championship in July 2009. At the end of that year, the construction of a skating rink for 3,000 people was finished. Taking part in the construction were Canadian specialists who prepared rinks for the Olympic Games 2006 in Turin and will prepare rinks for the forthcoming Olympic Games in Vancouver. The Minsk Arena complex received the first visitors on 26 December 2009. The first major event that has taken place there was the final of the sixth Christmas international amateur ice hockey tournament for the prizes of the President of Belarus on 7 January.

The complex will officially open on 30 January with the CHL All-Stars match.

Acting Chairman of the Minsk City Council Nikolai Ladutko who accompanied the President of Turkmenistan told reporters that “Minsk Arena aroused a great interest in President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov”.

The complex combines a velodrome, a skating rink and Minsk Arena itself. Such a combination cannot be found anywhere else in the world.

It is a unique sports complex, this is why the President of Turkmenistan wanted to know the minute details about it, Nikolai Ladutko said.

News provided by Agency «BelTA»

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