A meeting of the city council’s exhibition coordinating committee was held in Yekaterinburg on May 29, 2007. The agenda of the meeting covered issues related to the implementation of the International Exposition Center project in the first quarter of 2007, Yekaterinburg Commodities Market Committee reports.

The city is expected to host 179 exhibitions this year altogether; 45 of them have already been organized in January-March 2007. The average number of visitors per exhibition amounted to 8,116 people; the average stand area reached 7.4 square meters; the average number of foreign exhibits and those coming from a different city came to 156.