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Kazan
Capital city of Tatarstan, Russia

Kazan

Kazan is the capital and largest city of Tatarstan, Russia.

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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.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Kazan Kremlin

    The Tatar fortress here was destroyed by Ivan the Terrible when he captured the area in 1551.

  2. 02
    Natural History Museum

    Has fossils, minerals, stuffed animals and interactive displays.

  3. 03
    Kul-Sharif Mosque

    Hours as for Kremlin, but mind prayer-times.

  4. 04
    Kazan Hermitage

    Petersburg, with changing exhibits of material that can't be displayed there.

  5. 05
    Warrior Spirit
  6. 06
    Suyumbike 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.

Do

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.

  1. 01
    Kazan Arena

    The home ground of FC Rubin Kazan, who play in the Russian Premier League.

  2. 02
    Kyrlay
  3. 03
    Victory Park
  4. 04
    Galiaskar Kamal Theatre
  5. 05
    Drama Theatre
  6. 06
    Opera and Ballet Theatre
Eat

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.

How locals move

Getting around Kazan the local way

  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Kazan, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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