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      Black Lake, the university and Lyadskoy Garden

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 2📍 6 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A green walk through the old centre: a park on the site of a filled-in lake, the university colonnade, the quiet Lyadskoy Garden and dinner next to it.

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        ☕️ Tubetey on Kremlyovskaya · 🧸 play area
        Кремлёвская ул., 21
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        A snack before the walk
        🍴 A café of a Tatar chain by Black Lake park with a kids' room and a summer veranda. What to order: echpochmak, kystybyi, tokmach noodle soup; breakfasts from 8 a.m.
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      3. 2
        🌳 Black Lake Park (Chyornoye Ozero)
        ул. Дзержинского
        🚪 entrance from Dzerzhinsky Street
        A shady park in a hollow behind Kremlyovskaya Street: a pond with fountains and the Lovers' Arch, with a skating rink in winter.
        Walk through the Lovers' Arch in the eastern part of the park
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        Black Lake Park (Chyornoye Ozero)
        © Alaexis · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The park is named after a lake that turned to marsh and was finally filled in by 1889.
        • In 1890 the All-Russian Scientific and Industrial Exhibition was held here, and the plantings made for it became the basis of the park.
        • A cast-iron fence was put up around the park as early as 1847.
        • In the western part there is a pond, where a skating rink with skate rental is flooded in winter.
        • The garden in the eastern part is entered through the Lovers' Arch.
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        🏛 Kazan University, main building
        Кремлёвская ул., 18
        A white neoclassical building with a colonnade on Kremlyovskaya Street; in front stands a monument to the young Lenin, who studied here.
        Pyatnitsky's colonnade and the monument to the young Lenin
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        Kazan University, main building
        © OmniaInsomnia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The university was founded on 5 (17) November 1804 by a charter of Alexander I.
        • The main building with its colonnade was built by the architect Pyotr Pyatnitsky in 1822–1825.
        • The mathematician Nikolai Lobachevsky joined the building committee in 1822.
        • The Anatomical Theatre of 1836 was placed exactly on the axis of the main building.
        • In 1838 Mikhail Korinfsky built an astronomical observatory at the university.
        • In 1887 Vladimir Ulyanov entered the law faculty, but in December he was expelled for taking part in a student gathering.
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        🌳 Lyadskoy Garden
        между улицами Горького, Щапова, Муштари и Гоголя
        A small 18th-century garden with a fountain of a girl and a monument to Derzhavin, a quiet spot among old mansions.
        The girl fountain marking the first water supply
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        Lyadskoy Garden
        © Vyacheslav Kirillin · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Lyadskoy Garden
        © Тара-Амингу · CC0
        • The garden was laid out by General Alexei Letsky next to his estate; locals changed "Letsky" into "Lyadskoy".
        • In 1798 Emperor Paul I stayed at Letsky's estate.
        • The fountain of a girl with a jug was installed to mark Kazan's first water supply in 1874.
        • The spherical fountain of the 1970s is nicknamed "the apple" by locals.
        • In 2003 a monument to Derzhavin, a copy of a lost 19th-century monument, was erected at the entrance.
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      9. 5
        🖼 Boratynsky Museum
        ул. Горького, 25
        🎟 ticket
        The Boratynsky family's town estate: a museum of a poet of Pushkin's era, with a White Hall and a family archive.
        The Boratynsky estate, on Gorky Street, by the garden
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        Boratynsky Museum
        © Bogdanov-62 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum opened on 21 March 1977 as a school museum at Kazan School No. 34; it became a state museum in 1981.
        • Since 1991 the museum has been in the Boratynsky family's town estate.
        • From 1932 the estate housed a music school for a long time, where Sofia Gubaidulina studied.
        • During the war a bomb fell on the estate and destroyed a wall of the house.
        • The main house was restored in 2012–2015, and in 2026 the outbuilding reopened after restoration.
        • The collection includes the poet's lifetime editions and personal belongings, works by Fechin and a portrait of Leo Tolstoy made in his lifetime.
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        🍽 Marusovka restaurant
        ул. Щапова, 37
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        Dinner or a late breakfast; the kitchen is open from morning until 1 a.m.
        🍴 A restaurant by Lyadskoy Garden with a veranda and breakfasts until evening; named after Kazan's old Marusovka district. What to order: unagi eel tartare, horse tenderloin with pickled fennel, coffee ganache.

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