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Kazan

Travel Guide Europe Russia Volga Region Kazan

Introduction

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Kazan is the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan in the Russian Volga Region. The city is the 6th biggest in Russia with a little over 1 million inhabitants.

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Neighbourhoods

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Sights and Activities

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Events and Festivals

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Weather

Kazan has a humid continental climate with warm summers and cold winters. From June to August, the average daytime temperatures are 22-25 °C with an alltime high of around 38 °C. Nights are around 13-15 °C. Winters from December to February see average highs of -6 °C to -8 °C, while nights plummit to average temperatures of -12 °C to -15 °C, while the alltime low stands at a freezing -47 °C. Average annual precipitation is around 550mm with most of it falling during the warmer summer months. Snow is common in winter.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg Max	-9.3 °C	-7.9 °C	-1.4 °C	9 °C	18.9 °C	22.7 °C	24.8 °C	22.7 °C	15.9 °C	6.7 °C	-1 °C	-6.3 °C
Avg Min	-16.4 °C	-15 °C	-8.6 °C	0.8 °C	8 °C	12.3 °C	14.8 °C	12.7 °C	7.5 °C	0.9 °C	-5.7 °C	-12.4 °C
Rainfall	33 mm	28 mm	27 mm	36 mm	37 mm	73 mm	70 mm	69 mm	52 mm	47 mm	44 mm	38 mm
Rain Days	10	8	7	7	6	9	9	8	9	10	10	10

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Getting There

By Plane

Kazan International Airport (KZN) has flights to Moscow, Frankfurt, Ufa, Krasnodar, Surgut, Dushanbe, Istanbul, St. Petersburg, Tashkent, Tel Aviv, Yerevan and Samarkand, among several other regional cities.

By Train

Kazan has regular train connections to Moscow and Yekaterinburg.

By Car

By Bus

By Boat

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Getting Around

By Car

By Public Transport

By Foot

By Bike

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Eat

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Drink

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Sleep

Property	Address	Type	Popularity
Bulgaru Hostel	Universitetskaya 4/34 , apt 8	Hostel	68
Grand Hotel Kazan	Petersburg 1	hotel	-
Hotel Gulf Stream	2ya Azinskaya 1 G	Hotel	-
I&I Hostel	23 Zhukovskiy st.	HOSTEL	84
Dream-Hostel	ul. Zhubovsky 28A-5, (coutyard entrance)	Hostel	66
Hostel Zebra	18 A, F. Amirkhana pr.	Hostel	-
Hostel Tatyanas Day	Suleimanova,5	Hostel	-
Gorky 6 Hostel	Gor'kogo St. 6	Hostel	86
Oranjin Hostel	Pravo-Bulachnaya 19	HOSTEL	-
Vhostele	54a Volkov Street	HOSTEL	-

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Work

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Learn

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Keep Connected

Internet

Phone

Post

Russian Post is the national postal service of Russia. It's English version is currently under construction, but mainly involves the track&trace system. The domestic post is reasonably reliable, and sending international mail is fairly reliable but slow, taking at least a few weeks to European countries, longer to the USA or Australia for example. The delivery of mail sent from abroad to Russia is highly unreliable, and people or companies tend to use foreign adresses, from where a private carrier sends it to Russia. Alternatives like poste restante are non-existent with Russian Post. Most cities and large towns in Russia have a Central Post Office (Glavpochtamt), which also sells stamps and envelopes, and usually has fax services and Internet availability, though the latter mostly not in smaller places. Also, many hotels have postal services, including mail boxes. Post offices tend to keep long hours, usually from 8:00am or 9:00am until 8:00pm or 9:00pm Monday to Friday, and closing earlier during weekends. The main central post offices in the biggest cities keep even longer hours. For sending parcels, you can also try services by DHL Russia and FedEx Russia. For all mail you can use the regular alphabet, though maybe include the country's name in Cyrillic. For sending post to Russia (or trying to receive it) note that addresses should be in reverse order: Russia, postal code, city, street address, name.

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