Aerial photography of Kazan reveals the history of the city, which received the official status of the third capital of Russia. The video shows the key sites: the Kul Sharif Mosque, the Spasskaya Tower, the Kazan Kremlin, the shoreline of the Kazanka River and the monastery complexes, telling about the 1017-year history and industrial importance of the city.
- Duration
- 23 min 52 s
- Start
- Kul Sharif Mosque
- End
- National Cultural Center Kazan
- Stops
- 2
- Channel author
- НАД ГОРОДАМИ
Timestamps and places
- — Intro: Flying over Kazan
- — Kazan city overview
- — Kazan history and age (1017 years old)
- — Kazan Khanate and Moscow conflicts
- — Sviyazhsk fortress
- — Tatar Socialist Soviet Republic
- — Kazanka River and Volga River
- — Kazan State Circus
- — Millennium Square
- — Kazan Kremlin (UNESCO World Heritage Site)
- — Kul Sharif Mosque (Kremlin monuments: Spasskaya Tower, Kul Sharif Mosque, Annunciation Cathedral,…)
- — Presidential Palace
- — Kremlin Embankment and Palace of Farmers
- — Cathedral of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God
- — Church of Cyprian and Justina
- — Trinity-Sergius Monastery and Savior-Transfiguration Monastery
- — Saint Basil's Cathedral (Moscow reference)
- — Kul-Sharif Mosque details (1996 construction)
- — Kazan fortress history (Pugachev's rebellion)
- — Cities founded by Catherine the Great
- — Palace Square and Kazanka River embankment
- — National Cultural Center Kazan
- — Center of Family Kazan
Route on the map
OVER KAZAN. THE THIRD CAPITAL OF RUSSIA?