Host Cities

Saransk is the capital city of the Republic of Mordovia, just a 1.5 hour flight east from Moscow. The Sports School for Olympic Reserves in Athletics was opened in Saransk in 1995.

The Mordovian mythological bird ‘Inenarmun’ is the symbol of the city, adorned by a traditional Mordovian pattern of red, green and blue to represent arts and crafts and, of course, a football. Saransk is also a university town, attended by 20,000 students from 58 regions in Russia and 57 different countries.