March 12, 2014. Yekaterinburg is now busy running a tender for the design and survey work contract relating to the coordination of the FIFA Festival in Mayakovsky Park, Sverdlovsk Region Minister for Physical Culture, Sports, and Youth Policies Leonid Rapoport said at the first meeting of an ad hoc team who is in charge of coordinating the World Football Championship of 2018. The meeting was chaired by Sverdlovsk Region Government Vice Premier Valentin Gripas.

'It is already clear that most of the jobs will have to do with improvements in the park. I have asked the local Energy and Communal Housing Services Ministry and the Ministry for Construction & Infrastructure to come up with their proposals on the subject. We promise to make the supporters' festival a great event, this is why it is essential for all the organizations involved to cooperate efficiently,' Governor of Sverdlovsk Region's Information Policies Department quotes Gripas as saying.

According to Deputy Mayor of Yekaterinburg for All-Russian & International Events Sergey Tushin, the city's most important park meets the FIFA requirements as well as safety and public order standards that are imposed on large-scale public events.