About Kazan

Kazan-2013. Universiade

Kazan was announced the capital of the World Summer Universiade of 2013 in May, 31 2008 in Brussels.
At present there are 28 objects in Kazan that after some modifications can be used for conducting competitions of the World Students Games. All in all, 64 sports objects are planned to be used during the Universiade.

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The Kazan Kremlin

The Kazan Kremlin is a unique historial and cultural monument, which preserved elements of 3 epochs: tatar, russian and european. Architectural traditions of Bulgar, Golden Horde, Medieval Kazan-Tatar, Italian and Russian culture are interlaced here.
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Kremliovskaya street

This central street was initially called Spasskaya (after the name of Spasskaya Tower of Kazan Kremlin), afterwards Voskresenskaya street.

The current name Kremlin street received in 1996. Nowadays the street runs from Kazan Kremlin to Kazan State University...
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Peterburgskaya street

The grand ceremony of opening the street with the participation of Saint-Petersburg’s governor V.I. Matvienko was held in August, 2005. This event was timed to the celebration of Kazan’s 1000 anniversary.
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The Cathedral of Annunciation

The Cathedral of Annunciation of the Kazan Kremlin is the most ancient of other preserved historic architectural monuments left in. The cathedral, built aside the destroyed palace of Khan and the demolished mosques, is a masterpiece of the ancient Russian architectural tradition of cross-domed churches. Initially, it was the stone five-domed and three-apsed church supplemented in the end of the 16th century with two attached side-chapels in honor of SS. Boris and Gleb and Miracle-Workers of Murom. The ancient church had helmet-shaped domes. Within the 16th and 17th centuries its interior was decorated with frescoes, the fragments of which are left preserved in the western part of the temple in spite of many fires that happened in 17th and 19th centuries...
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The mosque Kul-Sharif

October, 1552. The capital of Kazan khanate is in charred ruins. Ah exhausting siege and fierce bloody fighting of the main strong point – Kazan Kremlin is taking place… The unequal battle lasted for several days, until all its defenders were fallen…
A prominent Tatar scientist, enlightener, philosopher Sh. Margjani wrote in his research, that in the Kremlin was the main (conciliar) eight-minaret mosque, headed by a respectable, honoured religiousman, scientist, poet, diplomat Sharifcol....
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The Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul

The Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul of Kazan is undoubtedly the most valuable architectural monument and the one of the spiritual symbols of Kazan. It stands on a rising ground and attracts one’s attention with its magnificent majesty and peculiar decoration...
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Catholic Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

The new catholic church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, situated in the intersection of Ostrovskiy and Aidinova streets, opposite the basket-hall was hallowed in August, 29, 2008.
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Convent of Kazan Icon of the Mother of God

The history of the convent of Our Lady of Kazan is inseparably linked with finding, glorifying and honoring the miracle-working icon of Our Lady of Kazan in Russia. This icon is one of the most honored ones esteemed in Russian Church. Among the other icons of Our Lady, the Kazan image has the greatest number of miracle-working copies, which are worshipped in Russia. In pre- Revolutionary period a name of Kazan, the principal town of a province was mainly associated by the Russian mentality with the miracle-working icon of Our Lady that was kept at the convent of Our Lady of Kazan....
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Holy Dormition Monastery of Sviyazhsk

The town of Sviyazhsk (nowadays a village on the island with the same name situated at the mouth of the Sviyaga River) was founded in 1551 as a fortress and a military base of the Russian troops during the war with the Kazan...
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