Kazan

Kazan Казань
City
Left to right, top to bottom: Spasskaya Tower, Söyembikä Tower, Qol Sharif Mosque, Farmers' Palace, Epiphany Cathedral, view of Kazan
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Location of Kazan
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Coordinates: 55°47′47″N 49°06′32″E / 55.79639°N 49.10889°E / 55.79639; 49.10889
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Tatarstan
Founded	1101(see text)
Government
• Body	City Duma[1]
• Mayor[2]	Ilsur Metshin[2]
Area [3]
• Total	425.3 km2 (164.2 sq mi)
Elevation	60 m (200 ft)
Population  (2010 Census)[4]
• Total	1,143,535
• Estimate  (2018)[5]	1,243,500 (+8.7%)
• Rank	8th in 2010
• Density	2,700/km2 (7,000/sq mi)
Administrative status
• Subordinated to	city of republic significance of Kazan
• Capital of	Republic of Tatarstan[6]
• Capital of	city of republic significance of Kazan
Municipal status
• Urban okrug	Kazan Urban Okrug
• Capital of	Kazan Urban Okrug
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK [7])
Postal code(s)[8]	420xxx
Dialing code(s)	+7 843[9]
OKTMO ID	92701000001
City Day	30 August[10]
Twin towns	Jūrmala, Antalya, Jeddah, Istanbul, Brunswick, Bryan, College Station, Hyderabad, Urbino, Astana, Astrakhan, Krasnoyarsk, Chelyabinsk, Verona
Website	www.kzn.ru

Kazan (Russian: Каза́нь, IPA: [kɐˈzanʲ]; Tatar: Казан) is the capital city of Tatarstan and one of Russia's largest cities. It is a major industrial, commercial and cultural center, and remains the most important center of Tatar culture. Kazan lies at the meeting of the Volga (İdel) and Kazanka (Qazansu) rivers in central European Russia.

1. ↑ Official website of Kazan. Kazan City Duma Archived 4 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Official website of the Mayor of Kazan Archived 3 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
3. ↑ площадь собственно города, Федеральная служба государственной статистики Archived 15 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine
4. ↑ Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
5. ↑ "26. Численность постоянного населения Российской Федерации по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2018 года". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
6. ↑ "Welcome to the Republic of Tatarstan". tatarstan.ru. Archived from the original on 16 September 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
7. ↑ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
8. ↑ "Kazan Russia - a thousand-year Russian city travel guide". aboutkazan.com. Archived from the original on 28 August 2007. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
9. ↑ "Current Local Time in Kazan, Russia". www.timeanddate.com. Archived from the original on 9 February 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
10. ↑ "ARCHIVED COPY". Archived from the original on 8 December 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)