Pinki Hall

Pinki Hall

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Full name	Dom sportova, omladine i pionira "Pinki"
Location	Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia
Owner	Naftna industrija Srbije (49%)
Capacity	5,000
Opened	21 October 1974

Pinki Hall (Serbian Cyrillic: Хала Пинки) is an indoor multi-sports venue located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun, Serbia. The venue has an indoor hall and an indoor swimming pool. Its initial full official name was Dom sportova, omladine i pionira "Pinki" (Pinki, The Hall of Sports, Youth, and Pioneers). The hall has a seating capacity of 2,300 for sports events and around 5,000 for concerts.

Opened on 21 October 1974, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Zemun being liberated from the Nazis and their puppet state Independent State of Croatia, the hall has hosted various basketball, handball, and volleyball teams. It now mostly serves for recreational use. It is the only sports venue in the city of Belgrade not financed by the city government, because Zemun's municipal government headed by the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) in 2000 transformed the venue's controlling entity into a publicly traded company and sold the controlling stake (49%) to Naftna industrija Srbije (NIS) oil company.

The venue is named after Boško Palkovljević Pinki, a prominent Partisan fighter during World War II in Yugoslavia and a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.

Concerts

• 27 April 1975 - Bijelo Dugme (Kad bi bio bijelo dugme Tour)
• 22 March 1977 - Status Quo
• 4 November 1979 - John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Jack Bruce, and Stu Goldberg
• 29 January 1980 - The Ruts
• 21 March 1980 - Ginger Baker
• 2 April 1980 - Wishbone Ash
• 31 December 1981 - Bijelo Dugme (Doživjeti stotu Tour)
• 1 January 1982 - Bijelo Dugme
• 2 January 1982 - Bijelo Dugme
• 20 October 1982 - Wishbone Ash
• 17 January 1985 - Rory Gallagher

References

• Press Online: NA PLAFONU 150 KANTI!, January 16, 2009

See also

• List of indoor arenas in Serbia