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Main article: Tatarstan
City Administration
- Municipality of Kazan
- Executive Committee of Kazan
- Office of Information Technology and Communications
- Committee of Land and Property Relations of the Executive Committee of the Municipal Formation of Kazan
- Department of Food and Social Nutrition of Kazan
- Chamber of Control and Accounts
Economy
Power
- Kazanskaya TETs-2 (JSC Tatenergo)
- Kazanskaya TETs-3 (JSC TGC-16"")
Transport
2025: The emergence of smart pedestrian crossings that fine drivers and pedestrians
In the capital of Tatarstan, the first intellectual pedestrian crossing has been installed, equipped with a system for automatic control of traffic violations. The complex is located on Bolshaya Krasnaya Street and allows you to reduce the risks of road accidents by up to 80%, as well as increase capacity by up to 20% compared to regulated pedestrian crossings. This was reported in the city administration in July 2025. Read more here
2023: A cable car will be built from Kazan to Innopolis for 23 billion rubles
In Tatarstan, the construction of a cable car will begin, which will connect Kazan, Verkhny Uslon and Innopolis. Director of the scientific and production organization "Gulliver" Damir Altynbaev in September 2024 presented the main stages and parameters of the project. The project is estimated at ₽ 23 billion and will be implemented in three stages. The cable car will become an important element of the region's transport infrastructure, providing convenient and fast communication between cities and the district. Read more here.
1967: The opening of the suburban traffic pavilion at the railway station
Fedorov Viktor Kronidovich. Genus. 1940, Honored Artist of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Monumental and decorative composition "Kazan - the capital of Soviet Tataria" on the outer wall of the suburban traffic building of the railway station. 1967 Concrete, pebbles, ceramics, glass; sgraffito, mosaic, stained glass window. Kazan S. M. Bubennov and V. K. Fedorov - authors of mosaics and sgraffito, R. A. Kildibekov - author of stained glass windows in narrow high windows.]]
Tourism
Kazan Tourism Development Committee
2024: Tourist numbers reach 4.5 million
Kazan Mayor Ilsur Metshin at the end of January 2025 announced the achievement of a tourist flow of 4.5 million people by the end of 2024, which brings the city closer to the strategic goal of 5 million tourists annually.
According to Prime, according to SberAnalytics, tourists in 2024 made payments in the capital of Tatarstan in the amount of almost ₽31 billion, actively using the services of museums, shops, restaurants and hotels.
More than a quarter of expenses fall on catering points, which are visited by almost 80% of tourists. This was announced by the director of the committee for the development of tourism of the city Daria Sannikova. According to her, the average check of guests in Kazan amounted to 1025 rubles. Spending of guests is also growing in accommodation facilities, shops, entertainment centers.
It is noted that in 2024 73.6% of tourists came from the regions of Russia (+ 8.6% by 2023). Most often, guests from neighboring and metropolitan regions of the country came to Kazan. The popularity of travel to the capital of Tatarstan and among residents of the Urals, a number of regions of the Central Federal District, the Southern Federal District, the Nizhny Novgorod and Kirov Regions is growing.
Over the past two decades, the number of guests of Kazan has increased 8-10 times. In 2005, when the city celebrated the millennium, about 500 thousand tourists visited it, and the hospitality sector was at the initial stage of development.
The city's development strategy, adopted in 2015, planned to reach 5 million tourists by 2030. However, the mayor of the city expressed confidence in achieving this goal in the next two years in the absence of unforeseen circumstances.[1]
Digitalization
2025: Allocation of ₽930 million for digitalization of municipal government
As it became known in September 2025, the Kazan administration will allocate ₽930,2 million from the city budget for the implementation of the program "Digital Transformation of the Municipal Administration of Kazan" in the period from 2026 to 2028 with an even distribution of funds of about ₽310 million annually. The customer of the program is the information technology and communications department of the executive committee of the capital of Tatarstan, and the corresponding draft resolution is undergoing anti-corruption examination. The initiative is aimed at modernizing municipal management using modern information and communication technologies.
The program provides for the introduction and development of digital technologies in local governments in Kazan. The document defines specific targets that are planned to be achieved by the end of the program in 2028. Financing will be carried out exclusively at the expense of the city budget without attracting federal or republican funds.
By 2028, the program provides for the achievement of the following quantitative performance indicators:
- Provision of backup data transmission channels for Internet access to at least 50% of local government units;
- Providing all employees of municipal bodies with Internet connections with a speed of at least 5 Mbps;
- Modernization of at least 20% of jobs in the structure of local government;
- Complete provision of departments with information protection tools and a set of information security documents in accordance with the current requirements.
The implementation of the program includes several key areas of technological development. The priority is to ensure uninterrupted access to high-speed Internet for all structural units. It is planned to organize professional support for information systems and achieve a high level of digitalization of administrative processes.[2]
Education
- Kazan (Volga) Federal University
- Kazan State Medical University
- Kazan State Energy University
- Kazan State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
- KNITU-KAI - Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev
- Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev
- Kazan Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the russian
- Kazan State Institute of Culture
- Kazan State Conservatory named after N.G. Zhiganov
- Volga State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism
- Kazan Innovation University named after V.G. Timiryasova (IEUP)
- Russian State University of Justice - branch in Kazan
Theaters
Main article: Theaters in Russia
Museums
Organizations in Kazan
History
1912
1911
Notes
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