The construction site of the stadium “Samara-arena”

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MOSCOW, March 9. /Offset. TASS Oleg Koshelev/. The construction of a stadium for world Cup 2018 in Samara will be back in the schedule for the summer. About TASS reported Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the organizing Committee “Russia-2018” Vitaly Mutko.

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“There were subjective factors, it was necessary to define the project. Now the project passes examination, the lag associated with this. You need to decide the cost, because a number of works were not taken into account, there are purely technical questions”, – said Mutko .

“They will work very rapidly. Two or three months we will need to enter the chart, no worries shouldn’t be here. We have in may and June on the field to leave the field to begin to plant the grass,” – said Mutko.

The construction of the stadium in Samara within the framework of preparations for the world Cup is in 2014, the facility should be completed by the end of this year. Designed for 45 thousand spectators, the stadium is being built at the entrance to Samara, close to the main highways leading towards the airport and tol’yatti.

The 2018 world Cup will be held in 11 Russian cities in 12 stadiums. The tournament matches will take Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Sochi, Samara, Saransk, Nizhny Novgorod, Volgograd, Rostov-on-don, Kaliningrad and Yekaterinburg. Samara will take six world Cup matches, including the game of the group stage with participation of Russian national team and the quarter-finals.