Kazan
Kazan is the capital and largest city of Tatarstan, Russia.
Kazan is the capital and largest city of Tatarstan, Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering an area of 425.3 square kilometres, with a population of over 1.3 million residents, and up to nearly 2 million residents in the greater metropolitan area. Kazan is the fifth-largest city in Russia, being the most populous city on the Volga and within the Volga Federal District.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Kazan Kremlin
The Tatar fortress here was destroyed by Ivan the Terrible when he captured the area in 1551.
- 02Natural History Museum
Has fossils, minerals, stuffed animals and interactive displays.
- 03Kul-Sharif Mosque
Hours as for Kremlin, but mind prayer-times.
- 04Kazan Hermitage
Petersburg, with changing exhibits of material that can't be displayed there.
- 05Warrior Spirit
- 06Suyumbike Tower
Söyembikä (various spellings, usually Suyumbike in English; in Cyrillic Сөембикә) was a Tatar princess, and regent of Kazan 1549-1551 during the minority of her son.
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Things to do
Kazan offers a lot of various events you can visit during your stay here - international opera and ballet festival, different types of music festivals, popular singers concerts and many other interesting things to do. A must-see event in Tatarstan is a national holiday Sabantuy - Tatar summer festival, which is celebrated in the beginning of June.
- 01Kazan Arena
The home ground of FC Rubin Kazan, who play in the Russian Premier League.
- 02Kyrlay
- 03Victory Park
- 04Galiaskar Kamal Theatre
- 05Drama Theatre
- 06Opera and Ballet Theatre
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Where to eat
Self-caterers can find a large supermarket (one of the Bakhetle chain) in the TsUM building across from the Mirage Hotel. Please note that the Tartarian cuisine has a lot of meat to offer. It is not always easy to find fish or vegetarian food. Dobraya Stolovaya (shown on Google Maps as "soup restaurant"). 07:30-21:00. Chain of very cheap self-service cafeterias. Food is everyday Russian style.
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Getting to Kazan
- Airports
- Kazan (KZN), 24 km · Kurumoch (KUF), 264 km
- Samara → Kazan294 km · quickest by road, 6h 49m · ₽1,320–1,760
- Saransk → Kazan309 km · quickest by air, 6h 32m · ₽5,170–8,020
- Nizhny Novgorod → Kazan323 km · quickest by road, 7h 37m · ₽1,440–1,910
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Kazan
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kazan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get in{{go | name | url | address 55.606667 | long | phone | fax | price Kazan International Airport | image Q47151 |lastedit Serves many cities in Russia and operates charter flights from destinations like Turkey, Serbia,Egypt, Thailand, India, Spain, UAE.
- Get inArriving in Kazan by bus is somewhat less common, unless you travel within Tatarstan, where buses and minibuses are by far the main mode of transportation.
- Get inMost routes are nowadays served by private-run ("unofficial") buses and minibuses that may terminate in different places, for example, at the train station (Kazan-1), at ploschad Tukaya, at Sovetskaya Sq.
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