Yekaterinburg Entitled to Hosting World Cup

October 31, 2013. Russia’s Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko confirmed Yekaterinburg’s status as the city that is supposed to host the World Football Championship 2018, R-Sport reports. ‘I am positive that Yekaterinburg is the city that should host the World Cup, even though the stadium is not quite reconstructed yet. This is a great city and a front gate to Asia. We would like the world to see this place, and we are going to promote it,’ Mutko said at the Russia 2018 Coordination Committee meeting where preparation for the Mundial was the main point on the agenda. Now the list of cities that are

September 2, 2014. National tourist information offices for foreign travelers could appear in the cities that are going to host the world football championship of 2018, RBC reports. According to Russia’s Deputy Minister for Culture Alla Manilova, the introduction of such offices will help create a friendly information environment for the visitors. ‘We expect a large inflow of foreign travelers and would like Russia’s major transportation hubs, airports, and railway stations to get the so-called flagship, that is, national, tourist information offices. They are expected to appear in the World

The cities of Russia that have been chosen to host the World Cup in 2018 have to be united into a single high-speed railway communication network, RIA Novosti quotes Head of Russian Federation Government Vladimir Putin as saying. ‘I believe we need to come up with an improved high-speed railways development program, make sure the facilities get launched sooner, and provide some new routes as well. This also means the cities which will host the world football championship in 2018 have to be united into a single network,’ Vladimir Putin said. The Prime Minister pointed out that high-speed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 22, 2013. The money needed to do the building and assembly jobs in the course of reconstructing Yekaterinburg’s Central Stadium will be allocated from the federal budget, Sverdlovsk Region Minister for Physical Education, Sports, and Youth Policies Leonid Rapoport announced at a recent press briefing. ‘A meeting on the development of sports in Russia was held in Moscow on Thursday; the agenda covered issued relating to the World Cup preparations, among other things. It was announced that an ad hoc committee would be set up under the Russian Sports Ministry to

Yekaterinburg is totally ready to host the world football championship of 2018. Russia’s Sports Minister and Chairman of Russia 2018 Coordination Committee Vitaly Mutko named five cities that are prepared to host this large-scale sports event, the Governor’s PR Department reports. According to the minister, all of the thirteen candidate cities on the application list can be divided into three groups. The first group comprises cities that are fully prepared to host the World Cup 2018. These are: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan, Sochi, and Yekaterinburg. The second group comprises the cities