Preparation
The 64 Universiade 2013 sports venues are concentrated in 4 zones across the city of Kazan proper. This is the area of the Pobeda Avenue and the Orenburgsky Trakt where the Universiade Village is located, as well as the Palace of Water Sports, Tennis Academy, Gymnastics Palace. Many sports venues are located downtown of Kazan, and some of them in Novo-Savinovsky District. The fourth zone is Zarechye for training grounds.
These zones are connected by renewed highways with two-level flyovers, including a completed Big Kazan Ring. Also a new bridge over the Kazanka river is building from the Youth Centre to the Baturin street.
The main transport connecting the sports venues with the Universiade Village will be newly built subway.
27 new sports venues are being built for the event and the legacy project of Kazan and should be ready by the end of 2012. At the moment the Universiade's venues and stadiums are given to high schools and universities of the capital of Tatarstan, to children and youth sport schools, and to the Olympic reserve schools. Presently the Universiade Village is integrated into the main campus of the Federal University System.
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