By Paul Nicholson
November 28 – More details of infrastructure build and budgeted spends are emerging for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. The Samara region is planning to spend more than RUB 77 billion (£1.1billion) in its preparations. While it has been announced that training bases will be set up in 20 Russian cities for national teams – World Cup matches will be played in 11 cities,
The stadium component of the cost is RUB 13.4 billion (£171 million). Located at the entrance to the city of Samara, the 45,000 capacity stadium will be linked to major roads leading to the airport and the nearest city of Tolyatti.
A parking area of 80 hectares will be built, as well as 240m high tower block, a hotel and exhibition centre, and research centers.
Samara’s regional programme is currently scheduled to have 58 events, according to information coming out of a meeting of the regional culture, sports and youth committee.
The money that will be spent on regional projects is RUB 56.4 billion (£690 million), which includes RUB 17.6 billion (£225 milllion) from the federal budget, RUB 28.6 billion (£366 million) from the Samara region and Samara city and RUB 10.2 billion (£130 million) from “non-budget sources” (commercial market investment).
RUB 7.4 bn of the federal budget money will be allocated to the reconstruction of the Kurumoch international airport. Samara and Tolyatti will be linked with a high-speed railway, which will pass through the Kurumoch airport, while Samara will have a city rail, which will connect the city’s areas
2018 stadium news:
The projects for the stadiums in Yekaterinburg and Kaliningrad are being reviewed by central government scrutineers following an agreement to reduce capacities to 35,000 places, according to the general director of ‘Arena-2018’ Aleksey Milovanov. All the other stadium projects are said to have received government approval.
The stadium in Krestovsky Island in St. Petersburg was said to be 60% complete. In Saransk and Volgograd, temporary stands will be installed to increase capacity, which will be removed after the World Cup.
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