The Sport Ministry has been tasked by Putin to produce a plan for the team’s preparations for the tournament by the end of March, with the proposal designed to boost the playing time of the host nation’s young footballers.

The Russians will have only next year's European Championships and the 2017 Confederations Cup to provide their team with competitive action ahead of 2018, due to not participating in World Cup qualification matches.

With Russia having exited at the group stage of the 2014 World Cup after two draws and a defeat, the need to develop players to boost their chances of success has been made clear.

"We do have a plan of preparations of the national football team, but we will have to do some extra work adjusting it to the presidential instructions," Mutko told the Russian news agency TASS.

"We were spared some time, we will work on it and think about it jointly with the football clubs and the Russian Football Premier League.

"The instructions’ sole purpose is to successfully prepare the team, we will definitely do this and we have a set of measures currently under the implementation."

Mutko, who is head of the Organising Committee for the tournament and a FIFA Executive Committee member, had claimed earlier this week that eight-year suspensions handed to FIFA President Sepp Blatter and UEFA chief Michel Platini will have no effect on Russia staging the tournament.

Blatter, who will step down from his role at next year’s FIFA Congress, had claimed an agreement was in place to give Russia the 2018 World Cup before the vote took place.

Russia was successful in its bid after winning 13 votes in the second round, beating Portugal and Spain’s joint effort, which garnered seven votes.

The Netherlands and Belgium polled four votes in the first round, which saw England knocked out with just two.

Both the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bid processes are being investigated as part of a widespread probe into corruption within world football’s governing body.

Preparations for the tournament have supposedly met praise for being ahead of schedule, with reconstruction work at the Luzhniki Arena in Moscow, which is expected to host the tournament’s opening match and final, on course to be completed by December 2016.

The stadium had been scheduled to be completed by April 2017,  with the work boosting the capacity of the venue to over 81,000 seats in readiness for both the Confederations Cup and the World Cup a year later.

As part of the changes to the stadium which hosted the Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics, the athletics tracks will be removed and the number of tiers will be increased up to 16.

A total of 11 cities - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Kazan, Saransk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and Samara - will stage matches at the World Cup, which is due to run from June 14 to July 15.

Meanwhile, the city Government of St Petersburg also told TASS that they plan to commission training grounds for the World Cup in early 2017, while accommodation will be built at Petrodvorets, Zelenogorsk, Pushkin and Zenit.