Another exhibition of the photo project “Satka: City Code” has opened near Stroitel Cultural Center. It is dedicated to the major town event of 2023 – the opening of Satka Ice Arena that took place yesterday on July 18.

The exposition shows photographs by Denis Shakirov and Vasily Maksimov.

You will recall that construction of the ice arena started in 2021 at the initiative of Governor Aleksey Teksler and with financial support from Magnezit Group under a concession agreement between the Administration of Satkinskiy District and Sport-Invest, a development company. Vostokmetallurgmontazh was the general contractor of the project.

Total area of the ice arena is 4,200 sq. m. It meets the most modern requirements to the facilities of this kind. The size of ice field is according to the standards of Kontinental Hockey League – 60×30 meters. And the field size can be made smaller, depending on the type and level of competitions.

The fan stands will seat over 400 people.

Apart from the arena’s heart – the ice field – it has a whole complex of convenient services: several training halls (a gym, a choreography hall, a throwing practice hall), modern and comfortable changing rooms, a doctor’s office and a massage room, a coffee area. There is a small cozy public garden around the arena building. Art objects, contributed by students of Satka’s A. K. Savin Mining and Pottery Vocational College, are installed by the main entrance stairs. There is parking for cars and buses.

Satka Ice Arena will become a new center of attraction in the town and will host competitions of the highest level. This will definitely help promote hockey and will reveal new opportunities – the town will have a figure skating class the townsfolk have long been dreaming about.

FACTS AND NUMBERS:

Satka’s first hockey boxes date back to 1951. One was on Metallurg stadium, another – on Magnezit factory stadium.

In 1957, a new hockey complex with fan stands, a training rink, a room for teams and referees was built in the new part of the town.

Magnezit’s hockey team, known as Trud in 1972–1985, won multiple prizes and first places among the teams of the second group of regional championship, and also came second in the first regional workers winter spartakiada of 1988 in the first group.

Now over 250 children and 100 adults play hockey in Satkinskiy District. Apart from professional sports teams, there are plenty of combined amateur teams, hundreds of avid hockey fans, and thousands of boys, girls, and older folk who love ice skating.

Source: Magnezitovets. Photo by: Vasily Maksimov