Krasnodar Territory will have new sports facilities built for the 2018
World Football Championship, the Governor of Kuban Alexander Tkachev
said in an interview with ITAR-TASS.
Russia will host the championship in 2018. The matches will be held in
Moscow, Podolsk, Saint-Petersburg, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Yekaterinburg,
Samara, Yaroslavl, Nizhniy Novgorod, Saransk, Volgograd,
Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar and Sochi.
The cities will be split into clusters with centers in Moscow,
Saint-Petersburg, Kazan and Sochi.
Krasnodar will build a new 30,000-seater stadium. The international
commission has already viewed the site for the stadium, located in the
hamlet of Lenin. The stadium will be built according to FIFA
standards, with infrastructure covering at least 20 hectares for
parking, evacuation and security.
The new stadium is expected to be better in terms of comfort and
equipment than the one currently operating in Krasnodar called
‘Kuban’. The ‘Kuban’ stadium is considered one of the best stadiums in
Southern Russia.
Krasnodar Territory has concluded reconstruction of 38 central
municipal stadiums.
625 million rubles were provided by the regional budget. This year
work started in 12 stadiums – Yeysk, Vyselkovsk, Dinsk, Caucasus,
Labinsk, Kurgan, Primorsk-Akhtar, Severskiy, Slavyanskiy, Tuapsin,
Uspenskiy and Armavir. Vice-Governor Nikolai Doluda said that the
stadiums will have football fields, racetracks, modern illumination
and reconstructed spectator seats.
