The city is situated on the left bank of the Volga river, at the point where the river Kazanka flows into it. The population nearing 1.2 million made up of 77 different ethnic groups. It is one of the biggest and most important cultural and industrial centres in the Volga region. There are museums: State Joint museum of the Republic of Tatarstan, Tatarstan State museum of the Fine Arts, and Kazan University ethnographic museum. Museums of famous people: Gabdulla Tukai, Baratynsky, Musa Dzhalil, Salikh Saidashev, Sharif Kamal, and Maxim Gorky. Exhibitions of the city are Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists, National cultural centre, Vassiliev exhibition gallery, and Kazanskaya Fair exhibition centre. Theatres of Kazan are Dzhalil Tatar opera and ballet theatre, Kamal Tatar theatre, Kachalov Bol'shoi Russian drama theatre, Tinchurin State drama and comedy theatre, Kazan youth theatre, State puppet theatre, Bol'shoi concert hall, and the Circus.

Annunciation (Blagoveshchenskyi) cathedral 
Apanaev mosque 
Cathedral of the Epiphany (Bogoyavlenskyi sobor) 
John the Baptist (Ioanno-Predtechenskyi) monastery  
Kul-Sharif mosque
Nikolo-Nisskaya cathedral church
Mardzhani mosque
Peter and Paul (Petropavlovskyi) cathedral 
Polish Roman Catholic church (Kostel) 
Cathedral (Sobornaya) mosque 
Kazanskyi sanatorium
Livadia sanatorium 
Lokomotive beach and beaches on the Lenin Dam  
State nature reserve "Blue Lakes"  
The International modern music festival "Europe-Asia"
The International Rudolf Nuriev Ballet Festival
The International Shalyapin Opera Festival
The piano music festival "Pianoforum"
The Tatar song festival "Tatar zhyry"
The Republican Karim Tinchurin Theatre Festival
"Ekijat" Tatar State Puppet Theatre
Concert Hall of Tukay Tatar State Philarmony
Jalil Opera and Ballet Tatar State Academic Theatre
Kachalov Kazan Academic Russian Bolshoi Drama Theatre
Kamal Tatar State Academic Theatre
Kazan Kremlin
Kazan State Circus
Kazan State Theatre of Young Spectator
Kazan Tatar State Theatre of Young Spectator
National Cultural Centre KAZAN
Saydashev State Grand Concert Hall
State Ansemble of Song and Dance
Tinchourin Tatar State Drama and Comedy Theatre
Ethnographical museum at Kazan State University
Millennium Park
Museum of A. Arbuzov and B. Arbuzov