Nikolskaya Ulitsa in Moscow became a meeting place for thousands of football fans during the 2018 FIFA World Cup and a monument is planned to commemorate the occasion ©Getty Images

A new monument to help commemorate the success of the 2018 FIFA World Cup is being planned for an area in Moscow where fans used to gather to meet during the tournament.

Nikolskaya Ulitsa is normally a quiet street near Red Square but during the World Cup thousands of fans from around the world used to gather to party and mix with local Russians.

Now, sculptor Salavat Shcherbakov has been commissioned to design a $90,000 (£69,000/€83,000) statue, which will be five metres tall, to mark the occasion, the Moscow Times reported. 

Shcherbakov's best known work is a monument to Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of the AK-47 gun. 

Salavat Shcherbakov's best-known work so far is a monument he designed in honour of Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47 gun, and which is located in Moscow ©Getty Images
Salavat Shcherbakov's best-known work so far is a monument he designed in honour of Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47 gun, and which is located in Moscow ©Getty Images

Shcherbakov told the Moscow Times that the monument would include “a ball spinning around the globe” and the names of the 32 national teams that competed in the tournament inscribed on its trail.

The monument will also feature stands with the names of the 11 Russian cities that hosted the FIFA World Cup, Shcherbakov added.

"It will be a small complex where people will be able to meet and take pictures," Shcherbakov told the Moscow Times. 

The World Cup monument is expected to be unveiled on Nikolskaya Ulitsa sometime in 2020, Shcherbakov said.