Uralmash Nears Completion; Saransk Stadium To Be Named Shumbrat Arena

Local reports said that the Uralmash stadium in Yekaterinberg, scheduled to be a training base for the 2018 World Cup, is "80% complete and once landscaping is complete will open this summer," according to Paul Nicholson of INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL. The budgets for the build of training bases for '18 have been cut by 700M rubles ($14M). The Uralmash has cost 500M rubles ($9.6M) and will be allocated a further 94M ($1.8M) from the federal budget to "complete the project." The policy of import substitution of materials to Russian suppliers has "saved costs at the stadium." Built to a capacity of 10,000, the stadium "will eventually become the home venue" for Russian Premier League side Ural. The name for the 45,000-capacity stadium in Saransk has "been chosen by public vote." The stadium, which will go into operation in Dec. '17, "will be called the Shumbrat Arena." The word Shumbrat "means to say hello in Mordovia" (INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL, 5/4).