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      The Old Tatar Quarter and Lake Kaban

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Tatar Kazan of the 18th–19th centuries: mosques with minarets on their roofs, merchant mansions, chak-chak and the new boardwalks over Kaban.

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      1. 1
        🏛 Tukay Square ("the Ring")
        ул. Пушкина, между Баумана и Петербургской
        The main crossroads of the centre, where two pedestrian streets meet; locals still call the square "the Ring".
        Start at the clock on "the Ring"; it is a 15-minute walk from here to the quarter
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        Tukay Square ("the Ring")
        © Денис Петьовка · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Tukay Square ("the Ring")
        © Artem Murugov · CC BY 3.0
        • The square is named after the poet Gabdulla Tukay.
        • The nickname "the Ring" comes from the tram loop where trams once turned around.
        • It used to be called Rybnoryadskaya, Kooperativnaya and Kuybyshev Square.
        • In ancient times this was a hollow with a small lake and a bog.
        • The last tram passed through the square on 7 July 2011.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🖼 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 life of a Tatar home that you can touch; the shop sells chak-chak and kat-tosh
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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.
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      5. 3
        🏛 Mardjani Mosque
        ул. Каюма Насыри, 17
        🆓 free entry
        Kazan's first stone mosque after 1552: Baroque decoration, Tatar ornament and a minaret on the roof.
        The first stone mosque after 1552; women will need a headscarf
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        Mardjani Mosque
        © A.Savin · FAL
        Mardjani Mosque
        © A.Savin · FAL
        • The mosque was built in 1766–1770 with personal permission from Catherine II, granted during her visit to Kazan.
        • It is the first stone mosque built in Kazan after 1552.
        • The money, 5,000 rubles, was raised by 62 parishioners.
        • Petersburg Baroque decoration is combined here with Tatar ornament.
        • The mosque is named after Imam Shihabuddin Marjani, who served in it.
        • For more than two centuries it was Kazan's main congregational mosque.
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      7. 4
        🍽 Tatar Usadba restaurant
        ул. Шигабутдина Марджани, 8
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        Lunch: wood-fired oven pastries, echpochmak and kystybyi
        🍴 A national cuisine restaurant on the Kaban shore with a log-cabin hall and pastries from a wood-fired oven, modelled on old Tatar ones. What to order: echpochmak, kystybyi and oven-baked pastries.
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      9. 5
        🖼 Gabdulla Tukay Literary Museum (Shamil's House)
        ул. Габдуллы Тукая, 74
        🎟 ticket
        A museum of the great Tatar poet in a "castle" mansion with bay windows and a turret, a wedding gift to Imam Shamil's daughter-in-law.
        A "castle" house with a turret; the museum is closed on Mondays
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        Gabdulla Tukay Literary Museum (Shamil's House)
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Gabdulla Tukay Literary Museum opened in this house in 1986.
        • The mansion was built around 1863 for the millionaire merchant Ibrahim Apakov.
        • In 1884 the house became a wedding gift to the merchant's daughter, who married General Muhammad-Shafi, son of Imam Shamil.
        • Its look draws on medieval Europe: bay windows, machicolations and a turret with a weathervane.
        • In 2016–2017 the building's historic appearance was restored.
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      11. 6
        🏛 Apanaev Mosque
        ул. Каюма Насыри, 29
        The merchants' "Bai" ("Rich") mosque with a restored minaret, one of the most ornate facades in the Old Tatar Quarter.
        A merchant mosque with a restored minaret
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        Apanaev Mosque
        © A.Savin · FAL
        • The mosque is named after the Apanaev merchants who lived in this parish, hence its second name, "Bai" ("Rich").
        • In 1930 it was closed, the minaret and vaults were destroyed, and the building became a kindergarten.
        • The minaret was rebuilt during the 2007–2011 restoration.
        • The look is a mix of Moscow Baroque and Tatar ornament.
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      13. 7
        🌳 Lake Kaban Embankment
        ул. Шигабутдина Марджани, Старо-Татарская слобода
        A 5 km loop around Lower Kaban: wooden boardwalks over the water, views of the Old Tatar Quarter and the new Kamal Theatre building.
        Go down to the boardwalks over the water; this section opened in late August 2026
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        Lake Kaban Embankment
        © Vyacheslav Kirillin · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Lake Kaban Embankment
        © Engelberthumperdink · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The first phase of the new embankment opened in summer 2018, in time for the football World Cup.
        • The second phase along Marjani Street, with the monument to Shihabuddin Marjani, opened in late summer 2020.
        • The last section opened in late August 2026, closing the five-kilometre loop around the lake.
        • The highlight of the new section is a 1.3 km wooden deck over the water.
        • The "Elastic Ribbon" concept was devised by the Russian-Chinese consortium Turenscape+MAP.
        • The new section has a 1,250-seat amphitheatre and three "quiet zones" with log furniture.

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