- The 2018 FIFA World Cup will be the 21st FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It is scheduled to take place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018,[2] 2018 FIFA WORLD CUP RUSSIA’n’WATERWAYS after the country was awarded the hosting rights on 2 December 2010. This will be the rst World Cup held in Europe since 2006; all but one of the stadium venues are in European Russia, west of the Ural Mountains to keep travel time manageable. - The nal tournament will involve 32 national teams, which include 31 teams determined through qualifying competitions and Routes from the Five Seas 14 June - 15 July 2018 the automatically quali ed host team. A total of 64 matches will be played in 12 venues located in 11 cities. The nal will take place on 15 July in Moscow at the Luzhniki Stadium. - The general visa policy of Russia will not apply to the World Cup participants and fans, who will be able to visit Russia without a visa right before and during the competition regardless of their citizenship [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup].

IDWWS SECTION: Rybinsk – Moscow (433 km) Barents Sea WATERWAYS: Volga River, Rybinskoye, Ughlichskoye, Ivan’kovskoye Reservoirs, Moscow Electronic Navigation Charts for Russian Inland Waterways (RIWW) Canal, Ikshinskoye, Pestovskoye, Klyaz’minskoye Reservoirs, Moskva River 600 MOSCOW Luzhniki Arena Stadium (81.000), Spartak Arena Stadium (45.000) White Sea Finland Belomorsk [White Sea] Belomorsk – Petrozavodsk (402 km) Historic towns: Rybinsk, Ughlich, Kimry, Dubna, Dmitrov Baltic Sea Lock 13,2 White Sea – Baltic Canal, Onega Lake Small rivers: Medveditsa, Dubna, Yukhot’, Nerl’, Kimrka, 3 Helsinki 8 4,0 Shosha, Mologa, Sutka 400 402 Arkhangel’sk Towns: Seghezha, Medvezh’yegorsk, Povenets Lock 12,2 Vyborg Lakes: Vygozero, Segozero, Volozero (>60.000 lakes) 4 19 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 1 2 3 6 7 10 14 15 4,0 MOSCOW, Group stage 1/8 1/4 1/2 3 1 Estonia Petrozavodsk IDWWS SECTION: [Baltic Sea] St. Petersburg – Rybinsk (1.010 km) St. Petersburg SECTION: Moscow – Nizhniy Novgorod (906 km)* 1010 WATERWAYS: Volga-Baltic Canal (1810 –1963 Mariinskaya Navigable Water System) WATERWAYS: Moskva River, Oka River (the part of Moscow «Circumnavigation») Lithuania System of canals, rivers & lakes connecting the Baltic & Caspian Seas N. NOVGOROD Arena Stadium (45.000) Volkhov Velikiy Novgorod It passes through Neva River, Ladoga Lake (Novoladozhskiy Canals), Svir’ River, Onega Historic towns: Kolomna, Ryazan’, Kasimov, Murom Canal, Onega Lake, Vytegra, Kovzha Rivers, Mariinsky Canal, Beloye Lake, Sheksna River, Lock 13,2 Small rivers: Klyaz’ma, Moksha, Osyotr, Pronya 5 Cherepovets Rybinskoe Reservoir from Cherepovets Town 6 1,7 Lock *not part of IDWWS Volga ST. PETERSBURG Zenit Arena Stadium (70.000) 6 15,7 10 3,7 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 1 2 3 6 7 10 14 15 Rybinsk N. NOVGOROD, SCHEDULE (Group stage) 1/8 1/4 1/2 3 1 433 Moscow «Circumnavigation» 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 1 2 3 6 7 10 14 15 Tver’ Kostroma Kazan’ – Samara (425 km) Kama ST. PETERSBURG, SCHEDULE (Group stage) 1/8 1/4 1/2 3 1 473 Volga river, Kuybyshevskoye Reservoir (6.450 sq. km) Moscow Rybinsk – Nizhniy Novgorod (473 km) SAMARA Kosmos Arena Stadium (45.000) Volga River, Gor’kovskoye Reservoir (1.590 sq. km) Kolomna The dierent river yacht regattas take place in this area Nizhniy Novgorod Perm’ A very popular area for recreation and for shing Lock 13,2 Towns: Ul’yanovsk (former Simbirsk), Tol’yatti, Samara 3 1 Oka 906 Rivers: Unzha, Kostroma, Kotorosl’ Rivers: Kama, Cheremshan, Osa, Samara, Chapaevka 4,0 407 Old historial towns: Rybinsk, Tutaev, Yaroslavl’, Kostroma, Lock 12,6 Ryazan’ Kazan’ 4 2 Yekaterinburg Plyos, Kineshma, Yur’evets, Puchezh, Gorodets 3,5 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 1 2 3 6 7 10 14 15 Saransk 15,22,25,28 IDWWS* Naberezhnye 16,19,25,28 Nizhniy Novgorod – Kazan’ (407 km) SAMARA, Group stage 1/8 1/4 1/2 3 1 425 Chelny Ul’yanovsk Voronezh Volga River, Cheboksarskoye Reservoir (2.190 sq. km) Volgograd – Samara (812 km) Ufa Volga river, Volgogradskoye (3.117 sq. km), Saratovskoye (1.831 sq. km) Reservoirs Tol’yatti KAZAN’ Arena Stadium (45.000) Samara Cheboksarskoye Reservoir is most popular shing area Don River Saratov Towns: Saratov, Syzran’, Balakovo, Engel’s, Kamyshin Lock 11,7 Belaya Large bays in valleys of Kerzhenets, Sura, Vetluga Rivers Lock 16,7 Small rivers: Chagra, Maliy Irghiz, Bolshoy Irghiz 5 2 3 1 4,0 812 Towns: N. Novgorod, Koz’modem’yansk, Cheboksary 4,0 Ukraine [Black Sea & Sea of Azov] Rostov-on-Don – Volgograd (575 km) 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 1 2 3 6 7 10 14 15 Don River, Tsymlyanskoe Reservoir (2.700 sq. km), Volga-Don Canal Rostov-on-Don K A Z A N ’, Group stage 1/8 1/4 1/2 3 1 Sea of ROSTOV-on-DON Arena Stadium (45.000) Volgograd [Caspian Sea] Astrakhan’ – Volgograd (491+ km) Lock Azov 575 Towns: Azov, Tsymlyansk, Taganrog 4 16,0 380 Kazakhstan Volga River, Volga-Caspian Maritime Ship Canal 13 3,4 Small rivers: Severskiy Donets, Manych, Tuzlov 2016 [email protected] VOLGOGRAD Pobeda Arena Stadium (45.000) 491 © Black Sea Delta of Volga River (500 channels, 20.000 sq. km) Lock 14,7 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 1 2 3 6 7 10 14 15 INTEGRATED DEEP WATERWAY SYSTEM OF EUROPEAN RUSSIA 4 the part of European Transport Passage North-to-South Towns: Astrakhan’, Akhtubinsk, Kamyzyak 1 3,8 ROSTOV-on-DON, Group stage 1/8 1/4 1/2 3 1 Astrakhan’ 5.500 km of waterways with guaranteed depths Sochi 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 1 2 3 6 7 10 14 15 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 1 2 3 6 7 10 14 15 Distances in km 100 KM Caspian Sea VOLGOGRAD, Group stage 1/8 1/4 1/2 3 1 SOCHI Fisht Arena Stadium, Group stage 1/8 1/4 1/2 3 1 140 *Integrated Deep Waterway System Of European Russia (IDWWS) [Baltic Sea] Kaliningrad (former Königsberg) 4 Approximate traveling time in days Table of distanses VOG KALININGRAD Baltic Arena Stadium (35.000) KGD 1500 Samara - cities of FIFA 2018 Lock Lithuania Pregolya, Deima, Neman, Sheshupe, Lava, Angrapa Rivers, old canals, 13 Number of locks on the way 2890 1237 KZN - IDWWS section Curonian Bay (Curonian Spit National Park), Kaliningrad Bay MOW 1313 2385 2550 13,2 Restriction of dimensions GOJ 906 407 2483 1644 906 - lenght of IDWWS section Baltic Sea 3,4 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 1 2 3 6 7 10 14 15 ROV 2219 3125 1812 4702 575 Kaliningrad Custom control point KUF 1387 832 1738 425 3315 812 - entrance to IDWWS KALININGRAD, Group stage 1/8 1/4 1/2 3 1 LED 2315 3702 1483 1385 1890 1000 3127 4402 2087 700 2919 3825 2512 5402 1275 - Custom control Poland 20 Match day 20 matches at «Luzhniki» Arena Stadium Moscow [MOW], founded 1147 AER population: 12.197.596 AVG 17,5ºC June, 20,4ºC July Sankt-Petersburg [LED], 1703 Volgograd [VOG], 1589 Kazan’ [KZN], 1005 Kaliningrad [KGD], 1255 Nizhniy Novgorod [GOJ], 1221 Rostov-on-Don [ROV], 1749 Samara [KUF], 1586 Sochi [AER], 1838 Moscow is a major political, economic, population: 5.191.690 population: 1.017.451 population: 1.205.651 population: 968.944 population: 1.267.760 population: 1.114.806 population: 1.171.820 population: 389.946 scienti c center in Russia and Eastern AVG 15,7ºC June, 18,8ºC July AVG 21,0ºC June, 23,6ºC July AVG 18,1ºC June, 20,2ºC July AVG 18,1ºC June, 22,2ºC July AVG 17,2ºC June, 19,4ºC July AVG 21,0ºC June, 23,4ºC July AVG 19,7ºC June, 21,5ºC July AVG 20,2ºC June, 23,2ºC July Europe, as well as the largest city entirely City is described as the most Westernized It is 80-kilometer (50 mi) long, north to The Kazan Kremlin is a World Heritage Site. Town is at the mouth of the navigable The world's rst radio receiver by engineer From ancient times, the area around the When the Soviet novelist Vasily Aksyonov Being part of the Caucasian Riviera, on the European continent. Moscow is city of Russia, as well as its cultural capital. south and is situated on the western bank The multi-ethnic city is honored by UNESCO Pregolya River, which empties into the Alexander Popov and the world's rst mouth of the Don River has held cultural visited Samara, he remarked: "I am not it is one of the very few places in often called the port of ve seas. Moscow Visit Hermitage, Peter-Paul's Fortress, of the Volga River. The Volgograd Metro- and famous for Muslims and Christians Vistula Lagoon, an inlet of the Baltic Sea. hyperboloid tower by engineer Vladimir and commercial importance. It was the sure where in the West one can nd such Russia with a subtropical climate, is situated on the Moskva River, in the Isaak Cathedral, Palace Square, Peterhof, tram is a light rail system, most of lines living side-by-side in peace. In 2009 it was Sea vessels can access Gdańsk Bay/Bay of Shukhov were demonstrated at the All- site of Tanais, an ancient Greek colony, a long and beautiful embankment. with warm to hot summers and mild Central Federal District, making Gatchina, Tsarskoe Selo, Kronshtadt, share a surfacelevel right of way with chosen as the "Sports capital of Russia"and Danzig and the Baltic Sea by way of the Russia industrial and art exhibition in Fort Tana, under the Genoese and Fort Possibly only around Lake Geneva". winters. it the world's most populated inland city. Russian Museum, cross 700+ bridges. a previously constructed railway line. it still is referred to as such. Vistula Lagoon and the Strait of Baltiysk Nizhny Novgorod in 1896. Azak in the time of the Ottoman Empire.