|Kazan's symbol is Zilant| |Founded||by Volga Bulgarians |Time
zone||UTC +3| |City Day||30 August| |Dialling code||+7 843|
Kazan (Tatar Qazan, Казан, Russian Казань) is the capital city
of Tatarstan and one of Russia's largest cities. It is a major
industrial, commercial and cultural center, and remains the most
important center of Tatar culture. Kazan lies at the confluence
of the Volga (İdel) and Kazanka (Qazansu) rivers in central
European Russia. The origin of the name is unclear. The literal
translation of Tatar qazan is a boiler or cauldron. Alternately,
it may have been derived from qazğan, Tatar for dug [ditch].
"Qazan" is originally a name for a special cooking pan, a
variant of a wok, but more solid and heavier. It was believed
that the city of Kazan is named after this object because of its
geographical similarity with a "qazan"-pan; namely the city is
situated in a U - shape lowland. Another, a more romantic legend
tells a story of a Tatar princess Söyembikä, who dropped a
golden dish (golden qaza