MOSCOW, September 29 (Itar-Tass) —— St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Sochi and Kazan were named on Saturday, September 29, to host the FIFA World Cup 2018.

Other candidates include Moscow, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saransk, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Yaroslavl, and Krasnodar.