KAZAN - A DAY IN THE LIFE / WHAT DOES THE THIRD CAPITAL OF RUSSIA HIDE? REPUBLIC OF TATARSTAN

0:00 - intro
0:15 - From a provincial town to the third capital of Russia
01:01 - Kazan Kremlin
02:41 - Tower of Pisa
03:37 - Palace of the Kazan Kremlin
04:12 - Qol Sharif Mosque
05:12 - Palace of Agriculture
06:09 - REGISTRY OFFICE
06:32 - Kazan Cathedral
07:56 - Pedestrian Embankment
08:41 - National Museum of the Republic
9:25 - Let the clumsy pedestrians run through the puddles and the water flows along the asphalt.
10:00 - Bauman Street
12:09 - Millennium Park
13:29 - Streetcar
14:08 - Lake Kaban
16:01 - Puppet Theater
17:15 - The End

Kazan, a city with a parasitic history from a ruling city to the third capital of Russia, yet the city has a thousand-year history.
In 2018, Kazan ranked third in the ranking of the most popular tourist cities in the country.
Eastern and Western cultural monuments, Orthodox churches and mosques easily coexist here. The city's architecture and monuments often feature the symbol of the kazan, as well as the zilant, a dragon-like creature from Tatar fairy tales.
Many places in Kazan are associated with legends. For example, at the bottom of Lake Kaban, according to legend, the ancient khan's treasures are hidden. And the very emergence of the city is associated with a legend, according to which a sorcerer advised to establish a city where a cauldron dug into the ground ("kazan") with water boils by itself.
The Kremlin is the calling card of the capital of Tatarstan. Incidentally, the word "Kremlin" itself is of Tatar origin and means "fortification" in Russian. To compare, the Moscow Kremlin is 200 years younger than the Kazan Kremlin.
The Kremlin has intricately combined Tatar and Russian styles of architecture. The Kremlin was built from the 10th to the 16th centuries on the bank of the Kazanka River. In 1556-1562 Pskov masters have erected powerful walls of white stone on the site of the old Tatar fortress, leaving only fragments of its walls. In the first half of the XVIII century there was a reconstruction of the fortress. In particular, the Spasskaya tower was added - there were added two tiers with clocks and bells.
The dimensions of the Kremlin are impressive: its area is more than 15 hectares, height of the walls is 12 meters, thickness of the stone walls is up to 6 meters. Eight towers have survived to this day. On the territory of the Kremlin there are many places of interest: burial of Crimean khans of the 15th century, falling tower of Suyumbike, Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery, Kul Sharif Mosque, cannon yard, residence of the President of Tatarstan.
On the territory of the Kremlin there is its own Leaning Tower of Pisa - it is the Tower of Suyumbike. It has the third highest angle of inclination among the "falling" towers of the world: its summit deviated from the vertical by 2 meters due to the foundation destruction. The 58-meter tower was built at the beginning of the 17th century on the highest point of the Kremlin hill. By its appearance Suyumbike reminds much of the Borovitskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin.
There are many legends about the tower. According to one of them, it was named in honor of the Tatar queen Suyumbike. She agreed to marry Ivan the Terrible on the condition that the tallest tower in the city would be built in 7 days. The Russian tsar complied, but before the wedding feast the tsarina climbed to the top, and not wanting to leave her native city, she threw herself down. The tower was in fact built much later.
Suyumbike Tower is closed to tourists, but next to it there is an observation deck with a beautiful view of the city, especially at sunset.
The palace is located on the territory of the Kazan Kremlin. The building, which resembles the Winter Palace, is the residence of the president of the republic. The palace is also called a governor's palace, because before 1917, the military governor of Kazan sat here. The palace was built in the mid-19th century on the site of the destroyed palace of the Khans of Kazan by personal order of Tsar Nicholas I. The construction was supervised by the famous architect Konstantin Ton - the author of the project of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Architectural style of the building is neo-Byzantine with clear symmetry of all elements. You can see Kazan's White House only from outside - through the openwork lattice of the entrance gate.
It is the newest construction in the Kremlin - the mosque was built in 1996-2005. The white elegant building seems to come down from the pages of oriental fairy tales. It is especially beautiful at night in the light of spotlights.