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January 31, 2011

Remote Russian town gets World Cup stadium

  • It is not clear who will use Saransk's 40,000-seat stadium, a dozen new hotels and the upgraded airport after the tournament ends in 2018.

    • SARANSK, Russia (AP) — Dry snow creaks under the feet of Klara Shishkina as she walks to the frozen Insar River, where a half-built bridge from the opposite bank ends in midair over her wooden gingerbread-style home.

    All of the houses in Tambovskaya street are to be torn down to make way for the bridge, one of many construction projects aimed at helping this out-of-the-way city welcome tens of thousand international soccer fans when Russia hosts 2018 World Cup.


     
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