Kazan
Kazan Казань | |
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City of republic significance | |
 Left to right, top to bottom: Spasskaya Tower, Söyembikä Tower, Qol Sharif Mosque, Farmers' Palace, Epiphany Cathedral, view of Kazan | |
 Flag .svg) Coat of arms | |
Location of Kazan  | |
  Kazan Location of Kazan  Kazan Kazan (Tatarstan) | |
| Coordinates: 55°47′47″N 49°06′32″E / 55.79639°N 49.10889°ECoordinates: 55°47′47″N 49°06′32″E / 55.79639°N 49.10889°E | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Tatarstan |
| Founded | 1005(see text) |
| Government | |
| • Body | City Duma[1] |
| • Mayor[2] | Ilsur Metshin[2] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 425.3 km2 (164.2 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 60 m (200 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 1,143,535 |
| • Estimate (2018)[5] | 1,243,500 (+8.7%) |
| • Rank | 8th in 2010 |
| • Density | 2,700/km2 (7,000/sq mi) |
| • Subordinated to | city of republic significance of Kazan |
| • Capital of | Republic of Tatarstan[6] |
| • Capital of | city of republic significance of Kazan |
| • Urban okrug | Kazan Urban Okrug |
| • Capital of | Kazan Urban Okrug |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (MSK  [7]) |
| Postal code(s)[8] | 420xxx |
| Dialing code(s) | +7 843[9] |
| OKTMO ID | 92701000001 |
| City Day | 30 August[10] |
| Twin towns | Jūrmala, Antalya, Jeddah, Istanbul, Brunswick, Bryan, College Station, Hyderabad, Urbino, Nur-Sultan, Astrakhan, Krasnoyarsk, Chelyabinsk |
| Website | www |
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 confluence of the Volga (İdel) and Kazanka (Qazansu) rivers in central European Russia.
Name[change | change source]
The origin of the name is unclear. The literal translation of Tatar qazan is a boiler or cauldron. Alternately, it may have been derived from qazğan, Tatar for dug [ditch].
"Qazan" is originally a name for a special cooking pan, a variant of a wok, but more solid and 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 situated 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.
Images[change | change source]
One of the first (wooden) houses in Kazan
Kremlin and City center, as seen from the State University
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Official website of Kazan. Kazan City Duma Archived 4 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Official website of the Mayor of Kazan Archived 3 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
- ↑ площадь собственно города, Федеральная служба государственной статистики Archived 15 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1" [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
- ↑ http://tatstat.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_ts/tatstat/resources/653e220044e2e011afb9afde4cdebdf4/%D0%9C%D0%9E%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB2018.pdf.
- ↑ "Welcome to the Republic of Tatarstan". tatarstan.ru. Archived from the original on 16 September 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ↑ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- ↑ "Kazan Russia - a thousand-year Russian city travel guide". aboutkazan.com. Archived from the original on 28 August 2007. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ↑ "Current Local Time in Kazan, Russia". www.timeanddate.com. Archived from the original on 9 February 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ↑ "ARCHIVED COPY". Archived from the original on 8 December 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
Other websites[change | change source]
Media related to Kazan at Wikimedia Commons
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