%0 Journal Article %T Status of the NICA/MPD project %A V. I Kolesnikov %A A. I. Zinchenko %J Physics %D 2013 %I arXiv %X A general-purpose detector for studying heavy-ion collisions at the NICA facility is under construction at JINR. The NICA/MPD physics program, basic design requirements, and the MPD experimental setup will be described. Results of detector simulation and the expected performance for selected observables will be presented %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1091v1