Kazan

Kazan Казань
City
Left to right, top to bottom: Spasskaya Tower, Söyembikä Tower, Qol Sharif Mosque, Farmers' Palace, Epiphany Cathedral, view of Kazan
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Kazan
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Coordinates: 55°47′47″N 49°06′32″E / 55.79639°N 49.10889°E / 55.79639; 49.10889
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Tatarstan
Founded	1101(see text)
Government
• Body	City Duma
• Mayor	Ilsur Metshin
Area
• Total	425.3 km2 (164.2 sq mi)
Elevation	60 m (200 ft)
Population  (2010 Census)
• Total	1,143,535
• Estimate  (2025)	1,329,825 (+16.3%)
• Rank	8th in 2010
• Density	2,700/km2 (7,000/sq mi)
Administrative status
• Subordinated to	city of republic significance of Kazan
• Capital of	Republic of Tatarstan
• Capital of	city of republic significance of Kazan
Municipal status
• Urban okrug	Kazan Urban Okrug
• Capital of	Kazan Urban Okrug
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK )
Postal code(s)	420xxx
Dialing code(s)	+7 843
OKTMO ID	92701000001
City Day	30 August
Twin towns	Jūrmala, Antalya, Jeddah, Istanbul, Brunswick, Bryan, College Station, Hyderabad, Urbino, Astana, Astrakhan, Krasnoyarsk, Chelyabinsk, Verona, Arkadag
Website	www.kzn.ru

Kazan (Russian: Каза́нь, IPA: [kɐˈzanʲ]; Tatar: Казан) is the capital city of Tatarstan and one of Russia's largest cities. It is a major industrial, commercial and cultural center, and remains the most important center of Tatar culture. Kazan lies at the meeting of the Volga (İdel) and Kazanka (Qazansu) rivers in central European Russia.

Name

The origin of the name is unclear. The literal translation of Tatar qazan is a boiler or cauldron. Or, it may have come from qazğan, Tatar for dug [ditch].

Qazan is originally a name for a special cooking pan, like a wok, but heavier. It was believed that the city of Kazan is named after this object because of its geographical similarity with a "qazan"-pan; namely the city is in a U - shape lowland.

Another, more romantic legend tells a story of a Tatar princess Söyembikä, who dropped a golden dish (golden qazan) into the river on which the city is located while washing it.

Nevertheless, Chuvash legends refer to Bulgarian prince Khusan (Chuvash rendering of Muslim name Hassan) and Chuvashes call this city Хусан after the name of this prince.

History

In 2021, nine people were killed in a mass shooting.

Images

• 
  One of the first (wooden) houses in Kazan
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  Kremlin and City center, as seen from the State University

References

Other websites

Media related to Kazan at Wikimedia Commons

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