Linnahall (, 'Tallinn City Hall') (originally the V. I. Lenin Palace of Culture and Sports) is a multi-purpose venue in Tallinn, Estonia. It is situated in the harbor, just beyond the walls of the Old Town, and was completed in 1980. The venue also features a heliport and a small seaport.
Venue
The 1980 Summer Olympics were hosted in
Moscow. As inland Moscow had no suitable venue at which to stage the sailing event, this task fell to
Tallinn, the capital of the then
Estonian SSR.
[ 1980 Summer Olympics Official Report from the Organizing Committee , vol. 2, p. 243] Apart from the main venue for the sailing event, Pirita Yachting Centre, a number of other sports and entertainment facilities were erected,
[ Tallinn is the Olympic Capital ] among them the V. I. Lenin Palace of Culture and Sport.
[ Estonia: the remarkable afterlife of the Linnahall concert hall, by Andres Kurg] designed by architects
Raine Karp and Riina Altmäe.
The skating rink closed in 2009, followed by the concert hall in 2010. The city sought investors from 2009 to 2015, and in 2015 the city council decided to renovate Linnahall, although the project did not come to fruition.
From June to July 2019, the location served as a stand-in for a Kyiv opera house during the filming of the feature film Tenet.
It is not to be confused with the primary administrative building of the historical municipal government (Raad) of Tallinn, often referred to as the Town Hall.
Noted performers
Heliport
Linnahall Heliport , is a heliport at the Linnahall in
Tallinn,
Estonia. It was used by
Copterline for its flights to Helsinki Hernesaari Heliport in
Helsinki,
Finland. It is the only publicly used heliport in Estonia.
Gallery
File:Linnahall from the city.jpg|Linnahall from the city
File:Linnahall looking towards Tallinn.jpg|Linnahall looking towards Tallinn
File:Fast ferries docked at Linnahall.jpg|Fast ferries docked at Linnahall
File:Linnahall from the west.jpg|Linnahall viewed from the west
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