The history of Russian football and everything about 2018 FIFA World Cup is presented at the exhibition in the Presidential Library

From May 21 to September 20, 2018 the exhibition "More than a game: to the FIFA World Cup in Russia" is opened in the Presidential Library.

The exposition will be interesting to all fans of the most popular sport in the world. It broadly highlights the major milestones in the history of Russian football, which homeland can be considered St. Petersburg. It was in our city that the first football match took place, and the first football league appeared in the country. Part of the exhibition tells about a man who is called the founder of Russian football, one of the first coaches, the first judge Georges Duperron.

Materials from the Presidential Library collections include the statutes of sports societies, literature about sports, the press, etc., will show how football developed and transformed: the rules, the technique of the game, the equipment of athletes changed, and also the lectures of the famous football historian Yuri Lukosyak.

Among the unique exhibits of the exhibition is the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on the accession of the football section of the All-Union Committee to the International Football Federation (FIFA), dated November 14, 1946, the ball with the autographs of the football players "Zenith", with which they won the USSR Championship in 1984, the official ball of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the mock-up of the new stadium "Saint-Petersburg", executed in the smallest details.

The most part of the exposition is  devoted to 2018 FIFA World Cup, which matches will be held in Moscow, St. Petersburg and nine other Russian cities. Numerous photo and video materials detail how much work our country has done in preparing for the grandiose sports event: how modern stadiums and airports were built, the infrastructure of the city-organizers changed, and much more.

Indispensable helpers in conducting such large-scale sports competitions are volunteers. At the exhibition it will be possible to find out details about the work of volunteers from St. Petersburg and other cities - the organizers of the Championship.

The public movement of sports volunteers in St. Petersburg helped the organizers of the exhibition to select materials related to the forthcoming 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia™ and the Year of the Volunteer held in the Russian Federation.

The exhibition "More than a game: to the World Cup in Russia" will run until August 19, 2018. To visit the exposition, you should first pre-register by phone (812) 334-25-14 or send an email to: excursion@prlib.ru.

Accreditation for media representatives:

Applications for accreditation should be sent in the attached form with the note "Media Accreditation" to e-mail addresses: media@prlib.ru, hudjakova@prlib.ru, Alexandra Khudyakova, tel.: (812) 305-16-21, ext. 167; mob.: +7 981 788-28-08.

The letter should include the full name, date and place of birth, passport data (series, number, place of registration), a list of carry-on equipment, contact numbers, name of the media.

Please, note, that the entrance to the Presidential Library is carried out only upon prior request and upon showing a passport: participants and guests of the event go through entrance № 1, representatives of the media go through entrance № 2.