first floor, with communal offices on the second. Located at 2 Balachninskaya Street in the center of Volgograd. In addition to regular religious services, it also hosts a soup kitchen, a Jewish day school and an overnight children's camp. As of 2022, the community is led by Rabbi Zalman Yoffe. Education Higher education facilities include: Volgograd State University Volgograd State Technical University (former Volgograd Polytechnical University) Volgograd State Agriculture University Volgograd State Medical University Volgograd State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering Volgograd Academy of Industry Volgograd Academy of Business Administration Volgograd State Pedagogical University Sports Volgograd was a host city to four matches of the FIFA World Cup in 2018. A new modern stadium, Volgograd Arena, was built for this occasion on the bank of the Volga River to serve as the venue. The stadium has a seating capacity for 45,000 people, including a press box, a VIP box and seats for people with limited mobility. Notable people Nikolay Davydenko, tennis player Sasha Filippov, spy Oleg Grebnev, handball player Yekaterina Grigoryeva, sprinter Larisa Ilchenko, long-distance swimmer Yelena Isinbayeva, pole vaulter Lev Ivanov, association football manager Yuriy Kalitvintsev, association football manager Elem Klimov, film director Egor Koulechov professional basketball player Alexey Kravtsov, jurist Vladimir Kryuchkov, statesman Tatyana Lebedeva, jumper Maxim Marinin, figure skater Maksim Opalev, sprint canoeist Aleksandra Pakhmutova, composer Denis Pankratov, Olympic swimmer Evgeni Plushenko, Olympic figure skater Yevgeny Sadovyi, Olympic swimmer Natalia Shipilova, handball player Yelena Slesarenko, high jumper Leonid Slutsky, football coach Yuliya Sotnikova, 400m athlete Yulia MacLean Townsend, classical opera singer Igor Vasilev, handball player Oleg Veretennikov, association football player Natalia Vikhlyantseva, tennis player Vasily Zaytsev, Soviet sniper and a Hero of the Soviet Union International relations Volgograd is/was twinned with: Coventry, United Kingdom (1944-2022) Ostrava, Czech Republic (1949–2022) Kemi, Finland (1953) Liège, Belgium (1959-2022) Dijon, France (1959) Turin, Italy (1961, renewed 2011, renewed 2020) Port Said, Egypt (1962) Chennai, India (1967) Hiroshima, Japan (1972) Cologne, Germany (1988) Chemnitz, Germany (1988) Cleveland, Ohio United States (1990) Jilin City, China (1994) Kruševac, Serbia (1999) Ruse, Bulgaria (2001) Płońsk, Poland (2008-2022) İzmir, Turkey (2011) Chengdu, China (2011) Olevano Romano, Italy (2014) Ortona, Italy (2014) Yerevan, Armenia (2015) Several communities in France and Italy have streets or avenues named after Stalingrad, hence Place de Stalingrad in Paris and the eponymous Paris Métro station of Stalingrad. Climate Volgograd has a cold semi arid climate (Köppen: BSk) with hot summers and