The event started yesterday with the blitz tournament to determine the places of the players and the pairings. Mamedyarov won with 7.5 points out of 9.
Some blitz games
The pairings of the 1st round
Svidler-Kramnik
Nepomniaschij-Tomashevsky
Aronian-Gelfand
Giri-Anand
Mamedyarov-Li Chao
Official site (in Russian).