The Paralympic Sports Centre will boast an athletics stadium, swimming pool and fencing hall.

"The Centre will include several modern buildings," the City Government said in a statement on its website.

"In one of them, there will be a demonstration centre with a big show room for 1,500 spectators that will be divided into four parts with movable partitions for competitions in different sports."

The complex will also hold medical facilities and a hotel capable of housing 200 people.

Ufa, which began as a fortress built on the orders of Ivan the Terrible nearly 450 years ago, is located in Republic of Bashkortostan, which has a record of pioneering disabled sport in Russia and contains the first centre in the country specially designed for Paralympic athletes, which opened in 2011.


Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said last summer that similar facilities would be built in all 83 regions of the Russian Federation as part of the legacy of Sochi 2014, which will be the first occasion on which the country has hosted the Winter or Summer Paralympics.