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By Victoria Moiseyeva

The National Sea Park in Baku is undergoing several changes ahead of the first European games.

To this end, new areas would be made in Baku Boulevard's both directions in the seaside park.

It is necessary to note that after the expansion in both directions, the length of the park would be 15 kilometers.

Due to the fact that a large number of people will arrive in Baku during the games, every cafe and restaurant will have post-terminals in the park, and there will be a man speaking a foreign language, especially English in every cafe, restaurant.

Wi-Fi services will be available at all sites within the park. The new infrastructure will be used to provide continuous Wi-Fi services in the future as well.

Deputy Chief of the Seaside Boulevard Office, Nazim Majidov said that after the expansion of the park's territory, the pedestrian crossings would be changed, too. Presently, the passenger boats ply around the State Flag Square and the "Crystal Hall", but after the expansion their route will run along the entire park.

Majidov said that the newly opened areas may have different forms of illumination, benches and so on. According to him, the route of the electric vehicles will also change after the expansion of the park.

"Approximately 50 percent of employees have passed an English language course before the "Eurovision" contest and most of them currently continue to work in the Seaside Park. Therefore another part of employees are expected to be trained. Security officers will continue their English language courses", he said.

Baku 2015 will be the first ever European Games, an exciting and new multi-sport event for the continent that will take place from June 12 until June 28, 2015.

There will be a total of 19 sports at Baku 2015: 16 Olympic sports and three non-Olympic sports. The Baku Games' program includes: aquatics, archery, athletics, badminton, basketball 3x3, beach soccer, boxing, canoe sprint, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, judo, karate, shooting, table tennis, taekwondo, triathlon, volleyball and wrestling. More than 6,000 athletes are expected to represent their nations.

Venues for the games will include the iconic Crystal Hall, which hosted Eurovision 2012, the new Baku Aquatics Centre and a modern, multi-purpose 65,000-seat Olympic stadium. The new Athletes Village near the Olympic stadium is ready to receive the guests from around the Europe.

Baku has already hosted a number of major international sport events in taekwondo, gymnastics, wrestling, volleyball, football, fencing, tennis, judo and road cycling.