Kazan

I got to work in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tartarstan for a few days. It's a beautiful city of about 1 million people but the traffic of 10 million people. (Moscow is a city of 10+ million and the traffic of 100 million people, just they way Russia is.) The people here speak Russian ant Tartar and this republic is a part of Russia. I found it interesting that this is an Islamic area but I didn't see anyone dressed at Islamic people traditionally do - maybe like Guinea there are "modern Muslims" here. I didn't too too much here as I met a team of people from PwC who lived and work in Kazan so they all had stuff to do at night. One night I met an expat there for dinner and walked around a bit, but no big dinners or sight seeing.


A picture of the Kazan Kremlin and the river:

A mosque within the walls of the Kazan Kremlin:
The "Stary Arbat" of Kazan. In Moscow there's a street called Stary Arbat which is a walking street, a famous place to visit. I'm not sure which was first, the one in Kazan or the one in Moscow.