The management company, general contractor and architectural designers have been selected and begun to work.

(Kazan, March 13, Kristina Ivanova). The international architectural design bureau Populous that jointly with Mosproekt-4 developed the 2014 Winter Olympic Games's architectural concept, will design a stadium for the World Summer Universiade 2013. The Universiade executive directorate general director in Kazan Vladimir Leonov told it to Tatar-inform.

The US-based Populous architectural bureau designed the Olympic stadium in Melbourne and is doing the same in London, for the 2012 Olympics. Besides, Populous will design a stadium for the 17th Asian Games, to be held in South Korea’s Incheon.

According to Vladimir Leonov, the management company for the Football Stadium Kazan project, to be constructed in the Novo-Savinov district of Kazan, will be the Russian firm Inteks, the Bolshoi Theatre reconstruction management company. Inteks is part of a consortium with the large architectural firm Populous. The company has separated from HOK (the firm attending to Sochi 2014) and specialises in sports facilities. The general contractor of the stadium seating 45 thousand will be Tatinvestgrazhdanproekt, while Tsnooprozdaniy will do the design as well.

The Universiade 2013 director said the development and approval of the project’s graphic design would be completed by mid May. The project documents are scheduled to be finalised in late November. “Before the end of 2010, the design of the football stadium will be completed, while the project will be commissioned one year before the Universiade 2013 in Kazan”, noted Leonov. About 5.670 million roubles will be spent to build the stadium.

According to Vladimir Leonov, the stadium will be used to hold the World Student Games 2013 opening and closing ceremonies, which is why it is very important to make it multifunctional. “We are facing the task of making the football stadium a state-of-the-art one in the existing network of football arenas. With that, it should be unique and practical, which is important,” the director enhanced.

The sports facility is designed to seat 45 thousand viewers. The stadium, compliant with the FIFA’s 5-star facilities standard, will allow to hold sports competitions of the highest international ranking, semi-finals and pre-match games at European and world championships.
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