Kazan! Kazan! - You are my Favourite city

when chose a place for the city, addressed for council

to the sorcerer. He told: "Build the city where by itself vryty to the earth a copper with water" will begin to boil. Long looked for such place. At last where Bulak-rechka fell into Kazanka, the copper began to boil itself, without fire. Here also founded the city. From here also the name Kazan ("cauldron" in Tatar means "copper") went.

Минниханов On March 25, 2010 Rustam Nurgaliyevich Minnikhanov became the president

of our Republic of Tatarstan

… On a legend, function which on ancient beliefs were carried out by a dragon, were reduced to three tasks: protection of borders, harvesting, people protection in all affairs. Similar legends it is known much, and in everyone it is told about this picturesque being, something reminding fossil flying pangolin.

are a lot of monuments…

and youth sports competitions of 2013 took place in our

city from July 6 to July 17. On the most large-scale Summer University games-2013 more than 350 sets of medals on 27 sports among representatives more than 170 countries that became a record of University games were played. For the first time among University games "Cultural University games" with dated by the most large-scale in the republic and the country the main Tatar national holiday Sabantuy, the international festivals and other actions in the field of culture and art were in parallel carried out: theater, cinema, classical and modern music, ballet, fine arts, national dance, song, ремесёл, etc.

сияет грань, В сердцах хранимая, Неповторимая, Стоит красавица, моя Казань...

In the region of big lakes and the deep rivers,
Where a half moon, the side shines,
In a fit of temper stored, Unique, there is a beauty, my Kazan...