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Kazan [a] is the largest city and capital of Tatarstan, Russia.The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka Rivers, covering an area of 425.3 square kilometres (164.2 square miles), with a population of over 1.3 million residents, [14] and up to nearly 2 million residents in the greater metropolitan area.
Tatarstan, [a] officially the Republic of Tatarstan, [b] sometimes also called Tataria, [c] is a republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe.It is a part of the Volga Federal District; and its capital and largest city is Kazan, an important cultural centre in Russia.
The Kazan Kremlin (Russian: Казанский кремль, romanized: Kazanskiy kreml; Tatar: Казан кирмәне) is the chief historic citadel of Russia, situated in the city of Kazan. [2] It was built at the behest of Ivan the Terrible on the ruins of the former castle of Kazan khans. It was declared a World Heritage Site in 2000.
Kazan metropolitan area is one of the largest metropolitan areas located in Russia which metropole includes the cities and districts of Tatarstan and Mari El republics: Cities: Kazan, Zelenodolsk, Volzhsk; Districts (rayons) of Tatarstan: Atninsky, Verkhneuslonsky, Vysokogorsky, Zelenodolsky, Laishevsky, Pestrechinsky;
The Khanate of Kazan [a] was a Tatar state that occupied the territory of the former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552. The khanate covered contemporary Tatarstan, Mari El, Chuvashia, Mordovia, and parts of Udmurtia and Bashkortostan; its capital was the city of Kazan.
All Russian cities with at least 1 million people, labelled Federal subjects of Russia by population density. This is a list of cities and towns in Russia and parts of the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine with a population of over 50,000 as of the 2021 Census.
Kazan Governorate, together with seven other governorates, was established on December 29 [O.S. December 18], 1708, by Tsar Peter the Great's edict [1] on the lands of the Khanates of Kazan, Sibir, and Astrakhan, with addition of some lands from the Nogai Horde. These were the areas historically governed by the Kazan Palace's Prikaz. As with ...
Kirovsky City District (Russian: Кировский район, romanized: Kirovsky rayon; Tatar: Киров районы, IPA: [ˈkirəf rɑjuˈnə]) is a city district of Kazan, [1] the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. It occupies the western part of Kazan. Its area is 108.79 square kilometers (42.00 sq mi). [2]