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"For the first time" is the real key word for the exhibition "Turks, Moors, Tatars - Moslems of Prussia and Germany", which opens in the Museum of Islamic Culture of the open-air Museum "the Kazan Kremlin" on June 23, at 11:00.

This is the first exposition, being presented as a part of the long-term international research project "Tatar materials in foreign archives", which is developed by the Institute of History named after Sh.Marjani of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan. Exhibits from eight institutions in Germany: museums, archives, libraries and private collections are displayed in the Open-air Museum for the first time. Curators of the exhibition are Dr.Stefan Taylig, Director of the Brandenburg-Prussian Museum (Wustrau) and Dr.Miste Hotop-Rikke, director of the Institute of Caucasian, Tatar and Turkestan Studies (ICATAT) from Magdeburg.

Sergey Ivanov, the Chairman of the State Committee of the Republic of Tatarstan for Tourism, with his deputy, Arthur Abdrashitov, took part in the startup of a new sight-seeing tour in Kazan on the Retro tram. The sight-seeing route is an adaption of the really existing tram route that passes through the historic town center, starting from the railway station to the river port and back. This tour gives the opportunity to everyone to get acquainted with the history of Kazan; an audio guide tells a story about famous personalities, who used to live in houses located along the route of tram.  It’s possible to select one of 7 languages for the tour. In addition, during the tour you can try the national cuisine of the Republic of Tatarstan. Duration of the tour is 40 minutes. You can take a tram at the railway station at Privokzalnaya square, 1.

The Republic of Tatarstan has prepared an excellent surprise for all fish lovers! The gastronomic fish week FISHKA takes place from the 16th till 22nd of June in the city of Kazan. It is interesting that fish, presented at the festival, is exclusively home born. The “stars” of the event will be sterlet, carp and trout.

On the 16th of June, near the Family Center “Kazan” there will be a scene, fish rows, a children's playground, photo areas and much, much more. In the non-stop mode 10 best restaurants of the city and 5 representatives of street food will surprise their guests with a variety of their own recipes for cooking the fish soup, and will indulge the visitors with just a huge assortment of fish dishes.

Analytical agency TurStat ТурСтат has named the Russian smallest towns, which are popular for travelling in the summer vacation period of 2017.

The rating included the smallest towns with population less than 10 thousand people.

Top-10 of the smallest Russian town during summer vacations include Bolgar (Tatarstan), Plyos (Ivanov region),Kirillov (Vologda region), Myshkin (Yaroslav region), Vesyegonsk (Tver region), Teberda (Karachayevo-Cherkesiya), Zadonsk (Lipetsk region), Pravdinsk (Kaliningrad region), Verkhneuralsk (Chelyabinsk region), Solvychegorsk (Arkhangelsk region).

The rating has been made by the results of analysis presented by the tourist offices and on-line booking of accommodation systems.

Summer project “Hospitable Kazan” has started on June 1. It is being realized annually by the “Assembly of Tourist volunteers of the Republic of Tatarstan” NPO with the support of the State Committee of the Republic of Tatarstan on Tourism.

The project is aimed at informing the tourists of the places of interest and objects of tourist infrastructure, as well as the increase of tourist attractiveness in the city of Kazan.

Each information site presents a geo-cupola pavilion in the form of a football ball and organized in the Visit Tatarstan style. There are three volunteers working inside each pavilion in two shifts from 10.30 a.m. to 02.30 p.m. and from 02.30 p.m. to 06.30 p.m.; they are located in 5 places of the town: the Old-Tatar Settlement, Kamal theatre, «Chaliapin Palace Hotel», hotel «Nogay», Kazan Kremlin. These information sites provide tourists with free map of the city, as well as the official guide «Tatarstan: 1001 pleasure», issued especially for the start of the summer tourist season and Confederations Cup 2017, in 5 languages: Russian, English, German, Spanish and Chinese. Tourist guide was developed by the “Center of Tourism development of the Republic of Tatarstan” NPO. This year the project “Hospitable Kazan” will be supported by 200 volunteers, who are the students of Kazan universities.

The museum exposition is based on the modern multimedia solutions, like those applied in the European museums. During the visit to the museum large screens will picture the history of the unique Kazan Tatars’ society establishment from the XVI to the XIX century. The visitor will thumb through the pages of history on the interactive touch panels, try on the national costumes in the virtual fitting room, study the architecture and biography of famous persons turning the building models and 3D sculptures at a large screen, learn the traditional Tatar tea ceremony, visit an antique and souvenirs shop and even ride the sledges “Barabus” across the Old-Tatar settlement in virtual reality glasses.

The Forum «Zdravnitsa -2017» made a decision for the Association “Tatarstan Sanatoriums” of joining the National Resorts Association (NRA). NRA and the Association signed a Contract on Accession on June 1, 2017. The National Resorts Association is a non-profit organization uniting the RF health-resort and spa institutions and associations.

Free webinar “Have a holiday in Tatarstan” with information about the sanatoriums of the republic will be held on June 9, 2017 for the representatives of tourist agencies. The Association «Sanatoriums of Tatarstan» invites representatives of tourist companies to join the event. This is a third webinar out of the planned five ones.

Representatives of the sanatoriums “Aznakayevskiy”, “Dzhalilskiy”, “Vita”, “Izhminvody”, “Gazovik”, and “Vasilyevskiy” will demonstrate their medical and preventive programs and resources, living conditions as well as tell about the infrastructure of the objects.

We remind, that the “Unified Transportation Company”, ANPO established by the Russian Ministry of Transport on behalf of the Russian federation Government together with the “Russian Railways” JSC and with the support of the “Aeroflot” PSC and other domestic airlines, is realizing the project of passenger transportation from the mainland territory of the Russian federation to the Crimea peninsula by the entire ticket. It was arranged for improvement of transportation accessibility and promotion of tourist opportunities in the Crimea peninsular.

On June 6, 2017 the Russian Association of Business Tourism (АБТ-ACTE Russia) will hold a Third Annual Conference in Kazan in the hotel RELITA-KAZAN. The theme of the event will be dwell on the “Modern business travel and MICE”.

The first block will be dedicated to travel policy. Here, Ekaterina Alexandrova, the АБТ-ACTE Russia Acting Director, is going to name the main stages and details of business trip organization. Managers of the Corporate Services Department EY will dwell on the topic of the key issues in travel policy construction. What kind of questions fail the attention of the corporate buyers? This is to be discussed by the specialists from the City Travel and Zelenski Corporate Travel Solutions.