• finishing a Suduko between breakfast and Kazan
  • where do these roads lead?
  • the outskirts of Kazan, the most color we have seen on the trip
  • a city of 1.1 million across the Kazanka River
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  • the Soviet apartments are unchanging
  • the beautifully restored train station
  • Kazan, capital of the Tatarstan Republic
  • Turkic  warriors decorate the station
  • the station front on ul Said Galieva
  • typical young Russian ladies
  • national museum entrance
  • we were greeted at the Kremlin with costumed girls and native snacks
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  • Kazan Kremlin corner guard tower
  • National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan
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  • Kul Sharif mosque
  • 16th and 17th century wall from the inside
  • the Kul Sharif mosque was constructed on the site of a mosque destroyed in 1552 by Ivan the Terr
  • the Kremlin is a Unesco World Heritage site containing parks and government buildings
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  • historic Kremlin entrance gate
  • the slightly leaning, 59 meter Syuyumbike Tower
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