{{Short description|Event venue in Kyiv, Ukraine}} {{Distinguish|Ukrainian House}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox venue | name = National Palace of Arts Ukraina | native_name = Національний палац мистецтв "Україна" | native_name_lang = uk | nickname = Palace Ukraina | image = 80-382-0614 Велика Васильківська, 103.jpg | address = Velyka Vasylkivska Street 103 | location = Pechersk Raion, Kyiv, Ukraine | coordinates = {{coord|50|25|20.31|N|30|31|16.7|E|type:landmark_region:UA|display=inline,title}} | architect = Yevheniya Marynchenko, Petro Zhylytsky, I.Vainer | type = Concert hall | owner = State Management of Affairs | built = 1965–1970 | opened = 17 April 1970 | renovated = 1996 | seating_type = | seating_capacity = 3,714 (main hall)<br />240 (small hall) | website = [http://palace-ukraine.com/en Official website] | embedded = {{Infobox historic site |embed = yes |designation1 = UKRAINE NATIONAL |designation1_offname = {{Lang|uk|Палац культури "Україна"}} (''Palace of culture "Ukraine"'') |designation1_type = Architecture |designation1_number = 260108}} }} The '''National Palace of Arts Ukraina''' ({{langx|uk|Національний палац мистецтв «Україна»|Natsionalnyi palats mystetstv «Ukraina»}}) or '''Palace Ukraina''' ({{lang|uk|Палац «Україна»}}) is one of the main theatre venues for official events along with Palace of Sports in Kyiv, Ukraine. The venue is a state company administered by the State Directory of Affairs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dus.gov.ua/cult_edu.phtml?ai=cult_edu3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106041220/http://www.dus.gov.ua/cult_edu.phtml?ai=cult_edu3|url-status=dead|title=National Palace of Arts "Ukraina" is part of DUS|archive-date=6 November 2013}}</ref> The main concert hall has a capacity of 3,714 people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://palace-ukraina.kiev.ua/new/gall1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019214146/http://palace-ukraina.kiev.ua/new/gall1.html|url-status=dead|title=Official website|archive-date=19 October 2008}}</ref>
==History== [[File:Kiev Major 2017.jpg|thumb|left|The main hall during the Kiev Major ''Dota 2'' eSports tournament (April 2017)]] It was opened in April 1970 as the biggest center of culture and arts. The building was primarily intended to serve as a venue for party congresses and events of the Communist Party of Ukraine, and secondarily as a concert hall. To construct it, Shelest the then party secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine desguised the construction, in documents sent to Moscow, as only a concert hall. Reason for this was that the Palace had similar dimensions in scale as the Kremlin Palace of Congresses and would most likely not be approved. The building was designed by a group of architects P. Zhylytskyi, I. Vayner, under the directorship of the project's author the distinguished architect of Ukrainian SSR Yevheniya Marynchenko.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wek.kiev.ua/uk/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%86_%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97%D0%BD%D0%B0|title=Палац Україна — WWW Енциклопедія Києва|website=wek.kiev.ua|lang=uk|trans-title=Palace of Ukraine — WWW Encyclopedia of Kyiv|access-date=17 July 2019|archive-date=26 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160326112643/http://wek.kiev.ua/uk/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%86_%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97%D0%BD%D0%B0|url-status=dead}}</ref>
All of the architects were awarded Shevchenko National Prize (1971) for its design and construction. The building is trapezoidal, twenty-eight meters tall and consists of over 300 rooms. The exterior of the building, which was remodeled in 1996, is characteristic of the sober and functional Soviet architecture of its time. The interiors and equipment of the lobby as well as artistic rooms of the palace "Ukraine" are designed by the architect I. Karakis.{{sfn|Yunakov|2016|p=40}}
Although it was finally built on a former market square on Krasnoarmeyskaya street (present vul. Velyka Vasylkivska), it was originally suggested to be built in the place of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery.<ref>Ruta Malikenaite (ed): ''Touring Kyiv. Guidebook'', p.132 (Baltija Druk 2002).</ref>
On 22 April 1998, the Palace Ukraina received the status of ''National Palace''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/go/343/98|title=Про надання статусу національного Палацу 'Україна'|website=Офіційний вебпортал парламенту України |lang=uk |trans-title=On Granting the Status of the National Palace 'Ukraine'}}</ref> Director of the building until 2010 was Mykola Mozhovyy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.panianka.info/_mikola_mozgovij_artistam_vse_0_0_0_1074_2.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721230630/http://www.panianka.info/_mikola_mozgovij_artistam_vse_0_0_0_1074_2.html|url-status=|title=Микола МОЗГОВИЙ: Артистам все одно за кого співати, – аби гроші платили|archivedate=21 July 2011 |lang=uk |trans-title=Mykola MOZGOVY: Artists don't care who they sing for - just to get paid}}</ref>
On 31 December 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the palace was damaged after a Russian rocket fell nearby.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/news-kyyiv-raketnyy-udar-palats-ukrayina/32202372.html | title=«Летіли шибки»: в Києві внаслідок ракетного удару пошкоджено Палац Україна – ОП | newspaper=Радіо Свобода | date=31 December 2022|lang=uk| trans-title="Windows flew": in Kyiv, as a result of a rocket attack, the Palace of Ukraine - OP was damaged }}</ref>
==Major events== The first major event was the 42nd Miss Europe 1997 pageant, held on 6 September 1997.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/1997/379703.shtml|title=Miss Europe competition in Kyiv marred by scandal and walkout (09/14/97)|website=www.ukrweekly.com|access-date=9 October 2016|archive-date=17 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617063000/http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/1997/379703.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Usually taking place in the Verkhovna Rada building, on 30 November 1999 the venue hosted the presidential inauguration of the newly elected president of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140914220852/http://www.brama.com/news/press/991130kuchmainaugural.html Leonid Kuchma's inauguration speech]. Palace "Ukraine". 30 November 1999</ref> Lana Del Rey, Christina Aguilera, Enrique Iglesias, Luciano Pavarotti and Sofia Rotaru are some of the artists that have performed there.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://palace-ukraina.kiev.ua/new/hist.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917211155/http://palace-ukraina.kiev.ua/new/hist.html|url-status=dead|title=Official website|archive-date=17 September 2008}}</ref>
The arena hosted the 11th Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013, and also hosted the Kiev Major ''Dota 2'' eSports tournament in April 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.junioreurovision.tv/page/blog?id=junior_2013_venue_confirmed |title=Junior 2013 venue confirmed {{!}} Blogs {{!}} Junior Eurovision Song Contest - Amsterdam 2012 |website=www.junioreurovision.tv |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608064402/http://www.junioreurovision.tv/page/blog?id=junior_2013_venue_confirmed |archive-date=8 June 2013}} </ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Kiev Major Dates and Tickets|url=http://blog.dota2.com/2017/02/kiev-major-dates-and-tickets/|website=Dota 2|access-date=16 February 2017}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==Bibliography== * {{Cite book|last=Yunakov|first=Oleg|date=2016|title=Architect Joseph Karakis|publisher=Almaz|isbn=978-1-68082-000-3|language=Russian}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Palace "Ukraine" (Velyka Vasylkivska Street, Kyiv)}} * [http://palace-ukraine.com/ Official website] {{in lang|uk}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041856/http://palace-ukraine.com/palace-ukraine/ History of the building at official website] {{in lang|uk}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20131106041220/http://www.dus.gov.ua/cult_edu.phtml?ai=cult_edu3 Information about the palace at the State Management of Affairs website]
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