Mogilev to build a second ice palace. It will also have the city's first water park
Mogilev is preparing for a large-scale construction project: the gigantic multi-functional sports complex "Aisberg" (Iceberg) will appear in the floodplain of the Dnieper River. It will combine a new ice arena, which will surpass the existing palace in size, and the city's first full-fledged water park. To implement this expensive project, builders will have to change the landscape, and the authorities will have to reduce the protected zones of the St. Nicholas Monastery.
Visualization of the "Aisberg" multi-functional sports complex project. Screenshot from Belarus 4 video
The complex is planned to be located in the Lenin district, next to the existing private development on Padgornaya, Beethoven, and Lomonosov streets and the bridge on Karaleva Street. The customer is the Mogilev Regional Department of Capital Construction, and the general designer is the "Mogilevgrazhdanproekt" institute.
A plot of more than 6 hectares has been allocated for construction. Today, this is a free, but heavily waterlogged territory in the Dnieper floodplain, which is periodically flooded by spring floods and partly used by local residents for gardens.
Visualization of the "Aisberg" multi-functional sports complex project. Screenshot from Belarus 4 video
Visualization of the "Aisberg" multi-functional sports complex project. Screenshot from Belarus 4 video
To place massive buildings on this challenging ground, designers will literally have to change the landscape. The ground level throughout the entire plot will be artificially raised by almost two meters, creating a powerful embankment with concrete slope reinforcement.
The construction of the complex is planned to be funded from the regional budget with an estimated amount exceeding 335 million rubles (about 105 million dollars). Of which, almost 123 million will go towards the construction of the ice arena, and 205 million rubles - towards the water park.
Second Ice Arena
The main part of the complex will be the ice arena with a maximum capacity of up to 5300 spectators. It will be a three-story monumental building.
Visualization of the "Aisberg" multi-functional sports complex project. Screenshot from Belarus 4 video
The facades will be made of modern sandwich panels with decorative finishes. The architecture of the complex as a whole is not very expressive and rather resembles the architecture of an industrial or warehouse building, which they tried to embellish with a wavy stripe made of rhomboid metal panels (including three-dimensional ones) in a mint and black color combination that was fashionable a few years ago.
The arena is multi-functional: it is designed not only for hockey (changing rooms are provided for 16 teams), but also for figure skating, short track, curling, and public skating.
Facades of the "Aisberg" multi-functional sports complex. Screenshot from Belarus 4 video
Visualization of the "Aisberg" multi-functional sports complex project. In the foreground is the parking lot, in the background – the ice arena with the water park. Screenshot from Belarus 4 video
This is already the second ice palace in Mogilev. The first one was opened in 2000 on the other bank of the Dnieper and is the home arena of HC "Mogilev". Its capacity is more modest: the old palace is designed for only 3,048 spectators, and in concert mode, the capacity increases to 4,000 people.
On the first floor of the new ice arena, there will be skate rental and sharpening points, a medical office, specialized halls for choreography, as well as a large engineering and utility block for ice maintenance (ice resurfacers, refrigeration center).
The second floor is entirely dedicated to spectator stands, cafes, and administrative offices. The third floor is a high-comfort zone with four VIP boxes for 100 people, a press center, and additional stands.
First Water Park in Mogilev
The second large object in the complex will be the water park. It will be a multi-story building (from one to three floors), capable of simultaneously accommodating up to 1100 visitors.
In addition to traditional swimming pools and water slides in the aquazone on the first floor, the project includes a bath and thermal complex, a food court, a children's play center, a SPA, and even an aerodynamic tube. A deep-water pool for diving, located on the third floor, should become a unique "feature".
The ice arena and the water park will be connected by a common entrance – a huge stained-glass atrium.
Huge parking lot for 1350 cars at the "Aisberg" multi-functional sports complex.
Visualization of the parking project at the "Aisberg" multi-functional sports complex. Screenshot from Belarus 4 video
Facades of the parking lot at the "Aisberg" multi-functional sports complex. Screenshot from Belarus 4 video
For such a large number of visitors to the complex, a gigantic surface parking lot for 1350 cars is designed. Its architecture also uses the motif of wavy stripes, formed on the facade using vertical metal lamellae of different lengths.
A new four-lane main road will be built leading to the complex, connecting it with Karaleva Street.
Around the complex, sidewalks will be paved with colored tiles, bicycle paths will be laid, and hundreds of trees, including maples, chestnuts, and oaks, and decorative shrubs will be planted. In the center of the square in front of the arena, an artistic composition on a pedestal is planned to be installed.
Historical monuments will have to make way
The construction of a large-scale transport artery to the new complex required adjustments to existing urban planning regulations. As the Telegram channel "Spadchyna" (Heritage) pointed out, the new four-lane main road is expected to cross the Dzebra River and connect with Selyanski Lane.
Project of the new street that will connect the multi-functional complex with Karaleva Street. Photo: from public discussion documentation
This lane passes behind the Holy-Nikolsky Monastery – an outstanding monument of 17th-century Baroque architecture. According to the project of protection zones, approved in 2019, this territory was part of the landscape protection zone, where the laying of new transport communications was prohibited.
Scheme of the Holy-Nikolsky Monastery protection zones project. Green color indicates the landscape protection zone, where changes in relief and laying of new transport communications were prohibited.
To lay the extension of the street to the new multi-functional complex, which encroaches on the monastery's protection zone, the regulations of the protection zones had to be changed.
However, for the sake of implementing the large-scale sports project, in March 2026, the Ministry of Culture introduced changes to the monastery's protection zone project. The new resolution officially allows the laying of transport communications in the landscape protection zone specifically for "extending Selyanski Lane in the south-eastern direction, taking into account protection against flooding of adjacent territories." Thus, the legal obstacle to the construction of the road to the new sports giant was removed.
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