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      Tatar food: from echpochmak to chak-chak

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 4📍 7 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A tasty walk from the Kremlin to the Old Tatar Quarter: pastries from a bakery-deli, chak-chak with tea, kystybyi at Tubetey and dinner by Kaban.

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        ☕️ Tatar Kulinaria café
        Кремлёвская ул., 11
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        Start with elesh and peremyach; they are hot in the morning
        🍴 An inexpensive café-bakery by the Kremlin with a display of Tatar pastries and a souvenir shop. What to order: elesh, peremyach, kystybyi, a sour-cream cake and tea.
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      3. 2
        🚶 Bauman Street
        от площади Тысячелетия до площади Тукая
        Kazan's main pedestrian street: merchant houses, the Chaliapin monument, Catherine II's carriage and cafés with Tatar pastries at every step.
        Along Bauman Street, past Catherine II's carriage
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        Bauman Street
        © Vyacheslav Kirillin · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • One of Kazan's oldest streets: in the khanate era it was called the Nogai Road.
        • After the assault of 1552 it was nicknamed Prolomnaya ("the Breach") after the breaches in the Kremlin walls.
        • It has borne the name of the revolutionary Nikolai Bauman since 1930.
        • It became Kazan's first pedestrian zone in 1996.
        • A tram ran here until 1935, and a horse tram until 1899.
        • The street has monuments to Chaliapin, the Kazan Cat and Catherine II's carriage, in which she visited Kazan in 1767.
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      5. 3
        ☕️ Chak-Chak & Echpochmak bakery
        ул. Баумана, 40
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        Chak-chak with tea in the tea room
        🍴 A bakery-patisserie with Tatar pastries and a separate tea room. What to order: chak-chak, echpochmak, elesh and tea; chak-chak in gift boxes is sold here too.
      6. 🚶 on foot
      7. 4
        ☕️ Tubetey on Bauman · 🧸 play area
        ул. Баумана, 47/9
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        Kystybyi and tokmach noodle soup
        🍴 Tatar fast food from a Kazan chain: quick, filling and with a kids' room. What to order: kystybyi, echpochmak, tokmach noodle soup or the signature kystyburger.
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      9. 5
        🏛 Epiphany Cathedral Bell Tower
        ул. Баумана, 78
        A red-brick bell tower from 1897, the tallest in Kazan; through its arch you can see the cathedral courtyard where Chaliapin was baptised.
        A breather by the 1897 bell tower
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        Epiphany Cathedral Bell Tower
        © Vyacheslav Kirillin · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Epiphany Cathedral Bell Tower
        © R. Sieben · CC BY 3.0
        • It is the tallest bell tower in Kazan and one of the tallest Orthodox bell towers.
        • It was completed on 17 August 1897 with money bequeathed by the merchant Ivan Krivonosov.
        • Almost two million bricks went into its construction.
        • In 1901 lightning struck the bell tower and the beams under the big bell caught fire.
        • Fyodor Chaliapin was baptised in the Epiphany Church on 2 February 1873.
        • Since 2001 the Chaliapin chamber hall has operated in the bell tower.
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      11. 6
        🖼 Chak-Chak Museum
        ул. Парижской Коммуны, 18А
        🎟 ticket
        A private museum in a wooden house: the life of a well-off Tatar family around 1900, which you can touch, and the story of the Tatars' best-known sweet.
        The story of the best-known Tatar sweet and a tasting in the shop
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        • The museum opened in September 2014, funded by Dmitry Polosin and Raushaniya Suleymanova from their own money.
        • It recreates the life of a well-off Tatar home of the late 19th and early 20th century.
        • Almost everything in the exhibition can be touched and tried out.
        • In the museum shop you can taste and buy chak-chak, baursak and kat-tosh made to an old recipe.
      12. 🚶 on foot
      13. 7
        🍽 Gus restaurant
        ул. Шигабутдина Марджани, 10
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        Dinner by Kaban: goose dishes and house-made fruit liqueur
        🍴 A village-cuisine restaurant by Kaban; from the second-floor balcony you can see the lake. What to order: goose dishes (smoked goose salad, stuffed cabbage rolls) and house-made fruit liqueur.

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