Spartak football stadium should be built in Moscow by late 2013

MOSOW. March 25. KAZINFORM The construction of a Moscow football stadium Spartak is planned to complete at the end of 2013, the chief of the technical control department at the Spartak stadium Sergei Dadin said on Thursday.

"The main task is to meet the construction deadline, which was set for us. We can meet it so far. The stadium is to be built by the end of 2013," the official website of the Spartak Moscow football club quoted him as saying. The grass cover will be artificial at a new stadium, but it can be replaced with the natural grass if necessary, Dadin noted.

"The first stage of the zero construction cycle is almost over. We are solving the current problems, mainly related with the expertise," the director general of the Spartak stadium company Andrei Fedun said. Fedun also noted that the situation over the re-mothballing of the Spartak metro station has not been made clear yet. Kazinform cites Itar-Tass. See www.itar-tass.com