The authors of this book - local historian Renat Bikbulatov and writer Rafael Mustafin - talk about the formation of Kazan in the light of the history of its numerous and now almost forgotten settlements: Sukonnaya, Admiralteyskaya, Igumnova, Yagodnaya, Krasnaya, Mokra and dozens of others. The history of the capital of Tatarstan has not been considered in this regard for the last 100 years. The book is intended for high school students, young local historians, and anyone interested in the history of their native city. The book uses old photo postcards from the personal collection of philocartist-local historian Hadji Abdulla Dubin.

< p>Contents: Kazan grew with settlements. A medieval city. The capture of Kazan by the troops of Ivan the Terrible. Zabulachye. Starotatarskaya settlement. New Tatar settlement. Tatar settlements. Zirat.Tatar town hall, mosques and churches.Hay market.Formation of national architecture.Spread of education.First steps of the national theater.Development of crafts and trade.From horsecars to trams.Memorable places of the Tatar settlement.Russian part of the city.Who are bolders and bobyli?Yamskaya settlement. Podluzhnaya settlement. Wet settlement. Red settlement. Theater square. Fedorovskaya and Zasypkinskaya settlements. Kazan Bogoroditsky monastery. What is Bishbalta? Cloth settlement. Admiralty settlement. Yagodnaya settlement. Igumnova settlement. Powder settlement. Alafuzov Empire .Zarechye.First horse-drawn railway. Old Moscow highway. Why do we need a road if it does not lead to the temple? Kizicheskaya Sloboda. God-forgotten settlements (Grivka and Kozya). Arkhangelskaya Sloboda. Hospital Sloboda. Academic Sloboda. “Shining Kazan.”