Historic and Architectural Complex of the Kazan Kremlin
World Heritage
Russian Federation
🎧 Listen to Introduction
The Kazan Kremlin was built on ancient ruins dating back to the Muslim period of the Golden Horde and the Khanate of Kazan. In 1552, Ivan the Terrible conquered Kazan and made it a Christian diocese in the Volga region. The Kazan Kremlin is the only surviving Tatar fortress in Russia and an important pilgrimage site, consisting of a group of outstanding historical buildings dating from the 16th to the 19th centuries, incorporating remains of earlier buildings from the 10th to the 16th centuries.
# Historic buildings
# Ivan the Terrible
# Khanate of Kazan
# Golden Horde
# Volga region
# Tatar Fortress
Poem of the heritage generated by AI
Intangible culture related to the heritage
China tourist attractions related to the heritage
World heritage related to the heritage
Show more related heritage
Information extracted from Wikidata
| start time | 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z |
| native label | Казанский кремль |
| World Heritage criteria | World Heritage selection criterion (ii) |
| World Heritage criteria | Larousse Encyclopedia online |
| permanent duplicated item | Zhao Mausoleum |
| country | Russia |
| image | http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%20%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BB%D1%8C.%20%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0%20%D1%81%20%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B0%20%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B7%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F.jpg |
| located in the administrative territorial entity | Kazan |
| executive body | Kazan Kremlin |
| IPA transcription | 2032687 |
| office held by head of the organization | http://g.co/kg/m/06qpj9 |
| Commons category | Kazan Kremlin |
| coordinate location | Point(49.106998 55.796759) |