NEWS
The partner of the International airport "Kazan" – Aeroflot airline will continue to perform direct regular flights along a way Kazan – Frankfurt am Main – Kazan in the winter timetable.
Flights will be performed twice a week on Mondays and Fridays. The departure from Kazan will be performed at 10:00, and an arrival to Frankfurt at 13:20. In the backward the plane will go at 14:55 with arrival in the International airport "Kazan" at 19:55 (for each airport local time is specified). Airbus A320 crafts will serve a way.
In the honor of the 10th anniversary the fan club of historical technique “AutoRetroClub21” will conduct the motor rally “Kazan-Elabuga’Naberezhnye Chelny” in September. The event dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the production of the Soviet automobile GAZ-21 “Volga”. According to the old tradition in the frame of the race the exhibition of hystorical auto and mototechnique was also organized.
It is planned that the retro-auto column will arrive in Elabuga on the 16th of September. The column includes about 20 pieces of equipment and 50 participants of the rally. Rally participants will be solemnly greeted at the SEZ "Alabuga". Exhibition of retro cars as well as the excursion through the plant «FordSollers» will be organized for participants of the rally.
September 1, the Knowledge Day, the Museum of Natural History of Tatarstan turns 8 years old. Guided tours, meetings with interesting people, interactive programs, environmental festivals and competitions - many important events were held in the museum. More than 500 000 people had chance to enjoy the exhibition: visitors saw how minerals glow in the dark, learned what kind of them exist in our republic, touched real meteorites, photographed with the mammoth and saber-toothed tiger, looked at the skeletons of dinosaurs, cave bear and other creatures that lived long before a man appeared. The museum is presented as a kind of a time machine, allowing to make a trip to millions years back and discover a very different Earth with its mysterious inhabitants.
Natural History Museum of Tatarstan has prepared the celebration program for its birthday:
11.00 – 16.00 entertaining quest “Go on into the past!”
11.00 – 13.00 origami master-class “Funny animals”;
14.00 – 16.00 postcards master-class “Happy Birthday, Museum!”
Mysterious excursion through the Center “Ermitazh-Kazan”
September 1st the museum staff will present new interactive museum and educational classes for the first grade pupils. One of these classes will be “All started with a wheel” which tells about the history of different types of wheeled vehicles; “Duck in the hand and on the leash” tells about the history of irons, and “Violin Clef or How Music arose” which shows the variety of traditional music instruments on the territory of Middle Volga.
Besides, children will see the abundance of fauna at the lecture called “Marvels of the nature”. And the lecture “History of things” tells unusual stories about common things and tells the history of writing and lighting instruments and great variety of household items. All they belong to the holdings of the National museum of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Entrance for first grade pupils is free during the whole day.
On the City Day in Kazan against the Kremlin walls there will be held the show “Kazan City Racing”. More than 30 drifters, stunt drivers and motorcycle stunts will give performances to citizens and guests of Kazan. One of the most awaited participants are going to be British record-breakers – stunt driver Terry Grant and motorcycle stunt Lee Bowers. Local pilots Timur Timerzyanov and Taras Shatov will also give performance in the drift show to citizens of Kazan, as well as pilots of the Russian series of closed-circuit races Irek Minnakhmetov, Marat Sharapov and Maxim Simonov will demonstrate their spectacular program.
The famous Russian pilot Maxim Tvardovsky will represent the international drifters’ crew “FailCrew”. Lithuanian pilot Povilas Yankavichus is going to give performance with new class of compact racing cars “Mitjet 2L”. Performances of the motorcycle stunt riders crew “Legend Stunt Team” headed by Marat Kankadze, road-circuit motorcycle racing team “RWT-motorsport” with Sergei Krapukhin, Grigoriy Markov from the team “B.K.E. Stunt Show” are also awaited.
The route “Kazan City Racing” will pass through historical central part of the city, along the Millennium Square. Total distance of the route makes 800 meters. One can get into event on the City Day from side of the Bauman and Tashayak streets, Kremlin quay and from side of the Central stadium. Warmup races will start at 11.00 and main program will start at
From 23rd till 25th of August the Chairman of the State Committee of the Republic of Tatarstan for Tourism Sergei Ivanov had a working visit to the Czech Republic. Working meetings with Czech tour operators and negotiations about including of the Republic of Tatarstan in tourist routes made for locals were held within the trip. There was also a visit to the city of Brno of the South-Moravian region where the meeting with hetman of the region Mikhail Hasek and representatives of the Centre for tourism development, Brno international airport and local tour operators was held. Issues of mutual promotion of tourist resources of two regions including organization of advertising and informational tours for tour operators and journalists, participation in regional specialized exhibitions and leading advertising campaigns in mass media were discussed.
It is to be recalled that there is a direct flight connection between the Republic of Tatarstan and Czech Republic, Czech Airlines perform two flights in a week (flight time 3,5 hours) what makes our destination affordable and attractive for travelling.
South-Moravian region is the second best place for attendance after Prague in Czech Republic. It is a region of hospitality and winemaking with living folklore. Capital is the city of Brno which is well located not far from big cities of Europe – 110 km from Vienna, 120 km from Bratislava, 200 km from Prague. There are seven UNESCO monuments within a radius of 100 km from Brno, in addition to that they preserved folklore traditions at the good level – men’s national dance “Slovak verbunk” is included in the nonmaterial heritage list of UNESCO. Wine tourism and bicycle touring is well developed.
On 26th of August in the National Gallery of Art “Khazine” there will be opened the exhibition “Artists of Tatarstan: icon of Syuyumbicke – the last tsaritsa of Kazan Khanate on the eve of 500th anniversary of her birthday”.
Exhibition from collection of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan and paintings of Tatarstan artists is dedicated to the Day of the Republic of Tatarstan.
As noted at the museum, the exhibition represents the legendary icon of Syuyumbicke in unified display area. The icon of Syuyumbicke is a kind of theme which closely related to ideology both under the Tsarist Russia and Soviet times.
Addressing to the icon of Syuyumbicke nowadays is passing through the prism of conditional postmodern language of the so-called “Muslim avant-garde”, abstractionism, conceptualism, primitive methods and aesthetics of shamail art.
Exhibition will be open till 26th of September.
On 30th of August, on the Republic and City Day, the event “Invaluable chapters of history” will take place in the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan. Interactive museum classes from the cyclus “History of simple items”: “Violin clef or how the music was born”, “It started everything with the wheel”, Duck in the hand, on the leash…” are waiting for the young visitors.
Kazan artist M. Nurullina is going to held a master class in painting “Flowers of my republic” for those who always wanted to learn drawing or wish to develop their present skills. Creative master classes in lace-making, bead weaving, puppets fabrication, calligraphy and scenery preparation for insta-pictures will be held as well. Lovers of sweets will be able to prepare ice-cream on their own by visiting master class from the creative group “Just”.
Concert program “My city, I’m singing of you…” participating the State Institute of Culture of Kazan, ensemble “Red hill”, musical ensemble “MINchausen” and master classes from the percussion school «EtnoArt» is prepared for the holiday.
Theatricalized costumed excursion “Reanimated exposition” will immerse you in the history of the famous epochs of the Volga Bulgaria and Golden Horde, Kazan Khanate and Kazan region and lead into the governing epochs of Peter I and Catherine II, get you acquainted with heroes of Napoleonic wars and World War I.
Kazan became TOP-5 the most visited places by foreign tourists in Russia - reported Executive Director of the Tour Operator Association Maya Lomidze on the RIA News press conference.
«Kazan this year has burst into the most five visited places by foreign tourists in Russia», – she mentioned.
Moreover, in summer 2016 Saint Petersburg, Moscow and other cities of the Golden Ring have got into the number of the directions in-demand by foreigners.
Kazan for the 10th year gathers admirers of retro machines for a great event, which demonstrates unique exemplars of automobile industry of the beginning and mid 20th century. This year the program will last 3 days during which festival participants can get the brightest experiences and take part in a plenty of extreme competitions. During this time motor-racing track «Kazanring» will transform into the atmosphere of real man drive, varoom and engines’ power. Two days festival participants will compete in the competitions “Autosabantuy” and the third day will start a gorgeous and spectacular retroauto parade. The races of Kazanring will be also a part of the program, where participants will be able to demonstrate a virtuoso race cars driving. For those who are for the first time in Kazan an unforgettable night excursion will be organized.