The 9th edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place in the Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex. It's huge sports and concert complex located on Tsitsernakaberd hill which dominates over the western parts of Yerevan, near the Hrazdan River gorge. The complex consists of two big halls; the concert hall and the sports hall.
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The complex was opened in 1983 but forced to close within a year and a half after a fire in 1985. A renovation process took place until the end of 1987 when it was ready again to host concerts and sport events. The complex was designed by a group of Armenian architects.
On October 31, 2008, exactly after 25 years of its first inauguration, the second opening ceremony of the Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex took place. Song concerts and ice skating shows were included in the ceremony.
The Russian figure skating legend Evgeny Plushenko (who also took the stage with Dima Bilan in the same year and won the Eurovision Song Contest!) was the surprise guest and performer of the day.
The complex has a unique design, an outside view of the whole construction reminds the shape a big bird opening its wings. Its architectural concepts include a turning tribune seating 1200, which can rapidly connect the two big halls to reveal additional seating.