Yaña Sawin City District, Kazan — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Yaña Sawin City District?

The Family Center "Kazan" is the signpost. Its cauldron-shaped hall rises above the bank, and the observation deck at its crown opens the widest view over the water toward the old town. Sport fills the rest.

The Aquatics Palace draws swimmers to its competition pools, while the Ak Bars Martial Arts Palace stages the fights and the Riviera resort runs its own aquapark beside the memorial to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War.

What is the history of Yaña Sawin City District?

The ground here is older than the borough. Yaña Sawin City District drew its administrative lines in 1994, yet the earth beneath it holds the cultural layer of the Kizich Sloboda, the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century settlement whose remains are protected in the soil of this part of Kazan. The memorial to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War records the twentieth century that followed.

Sport and leisure grounds, from the Aquatics Palace to the Riviera resort, came later still.

Where is Yaña Sawin City District?

Yaña Sawin City District covers roughly 21 square kilometres along the near bank of Kazan, a low riverside spread in a temperate climate where the Family Center "Kazan" marks the waterline.