The Football World Cup will be held in the Russian Federation for the first time. The event will unfold from 14 June to 15 July 2018. The matches will take place in 11 Russian cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Saransk, and Sochi.
Saransk will host the matches of the group stage: the national teams of Peru and Denmark will play on 16 June, the teams from Colombia and Japan will compete on 19 June, the teams of Iran and Portugal will meet on 25 June, and the national teams from Panama and Tunisia will play on 28 June.
The Host City Saransk Directorate for preparing and holding the 2018 FIFA World Cup posted video-guides for football fans. These guides are available at the official YouTube channel of the Government of the Penza region.
In addition to announcements of the upcoming matches, these videos are intended to explain to the guests of Saransk how to behave at football matches, what can be brought to the sports arena, how to get there, what can be done after the match and many other things. Some video-guides can be found here:
Regime of citizens’ registration
What to do after the match (in Russian)
What to do after the match (in English)
List of items prohibited at the stadium
Rules of conduct at the FIFA Fan Fest
All the necessary information on the 2018 World Cup, including documents, guides for fans, tourist routes, news, media content, etc. can be found at the following link http://saransk-2018.com/
