Information about the city of Kazan
Status: a city of regional subordination, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Kazan is situated on the left bank of the Volga River, at the confluence of the Kazanka
River, 797 km of Moscow.
Phone code: +7 (843) *******
Economy.
The main industries of the city are mechanical engineering, chemical and
petrochemical industries, fuel and electrical energy, light and food industries.
Main enterprises:
- Kazan Optical Mechanics Plant
- Kazan Motors Building Production Association
- Kazan Heat Devices Plant (Teplokontrol)
- Kazan Medical Apparatus Plant
- Scientific Production Association "Elecon" (electronic industry)
- Kazan Aircraft Production Association n.a. Gorbunov
- Kazan Helicopters Plant
- "Tatarstan" Air Company
- Kazan Department of the Gorkovskaya Railway
- Corporation "Tatavtotrans" OJSC
- "Tatflot"
- "Kazan Urban Telephone Network" OJSC
- Kazan State Governmental Powder Mill
- Kazanorgsintez
- "Tatenergo" Production-Operating Association
- Kazan Soap Plant (Nefis Cosmetics)
- Kazan plant of General Mechanical Rubber Goods ("KVART" OJSC)
- "Melita" OJSC
- "Spartak" OJSC
- "ZARYA" Confectionery Plant
- State Unitary Enterprise of the Republic of Tatarstan "Tatspirtprom"
- "Tatarstan Meat Industry" OJSC
- Kazan Brewery ("Krasny Vostok")
Agriculture: plant growing and animal husbandry for meat and dairy
industry, poultry farming, horse breeding, bee keeping.
Culture.
Theatres: Tatar Academical Theatre n.a. G. Kamal, Opera and Ballet Theatre n.a. M. Dzhalil,
Russian Legitimate Drama Theatre n.a. V.I. Kachalov, Young Spectators Theatre,
Tatar Theatre of Legitimate Drama and Comedy n.a. K. Tinchurin, Youth's Experimental
Theatre, Ekiyat - Puppet Theatre.
Kazan Film Studio, Tatar Film Center of the Moviemaker Union of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Tatar State Philarmonics n.a. G. Tukai, Kazan City Philarmonics. Big Concert Hall of the Republic of Tatarstan (on the site of Conservatory).
Circus. Palace of Sports.
Museums: National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan; Fine Art Museum;
Hermitage-Center Kazan; Archeological, Ethnographical, Geological, Zoological,
Botanical Museums of the Kazan University; Museums of Gorky and Shalyapin, G. Tukai,
V.I. Ulianov-Lenin, S.Saidashev, Baratynsky, Museum-Flat of M. Dzhalil, Sh. Kamal;
Museum of Islam (in the Kul-Sharif Mosque). On the right bank of the Volga River,
on the contrary of Kazan, in the Pechishchi village - Museum of J. Kupaly.
City sights: Blagoveshchensky Cathedral, Watch Tower Syuyumbike,
Governor's Palace, Peter and Paul Cathedral, Square of Freedom, City Hall, Kazan
Opera Theatre, Complex of Buildings of Kazan University, "Millenium" bridge.
The Kul-Sharif, Al-Mardzhani, Nurulla, Azimovskaya, Sultanskaya, Burnaevskaya,
Apanaevskaya Mosques. Zilantov-Uspensky, Kazansky Bogoroditsky, Kizichesky
Vvedensky, Kazansky Ioanno-Predtechensky Monasteries.
Monuments under UNESCO protection: Kazan Kremlin, the Virgin Monastery of Raifa,,
Sviyazhsk (not far from Kazan).
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