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addition to Saint Petersburg to Kazan is the former capitals of Russia. Now the city is courting more tourists

Ingo Petz
miracle is it in this place many, here on the outskirts of Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan. Here, where the old Lenin monuments still work strangely fresh, rusty but the children's playgrounds and dilapidated. Here, where the Volga is wide as a lake and its water glistens in the sun like satin. Here, where Christians and Muslims, Russians and Tatars are so tolerant and harmonious living together that was said to be cool even Hillary Clinton very impressed. The nicest surprise, however, lies in the musty rooms of Manzuk. The wiry man in slippers and shorts is the helper of the miracle healer, philosopher, architect and artist Ildar Chanow, himself the former Head of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, is said to have liberated from hemorrhoids. The master had no time today, had said Manzuk in greeting. He had many visitors who come to him to be cured of it - "with good words." After all, every disease is a disease of the soul. Manzuk is therefore in this sultry, stuffy room that is fully provided with all sorts of trinkets and Tinnef. In a dusty shelf are nothing but glasses, filled with dry earth. Guests bring Manzuk earth from their homes with. "Here," he says, holding ein kleines Glas in die Höhe, "diese Erde stammt aus dem Grab, in dem George W. Bush beerdigt werden wird." Rechts fällt der Blick schließlich auf ein großes Poster der Mutter Teresa, links auf ein Ölbild, auf dem der Pop-Star Madonna zu sehen ist, in Strapsen und lasziver Pose. "Das sind die Frauen, die mich in meinem Leben am meisten inspiriert haben", sagt Manzuk und lächelt, als er selbstgebrannten Kognak und schwitzigen Käse reicht. Man zweifelt keinen Moment an diesem Satz, so natürlich wirkt das Nebeneinander von Madonna und Mutter Teresa. Schließlich yes theme is the juxtaposition of the building, which houses Manzuks curious room. From the outside, the building looks crooked with his stained glass windows, turrets and minarets like a fairytale castle. The Cathedral of the religions is a perpetual construction site. It arises since 1994, when Chanow should have of Jesus Christ himself got the job, take a spade and establish the foundation for a church of all religions. Since then, pilgrims tourists, the curious and people who seek the advice and help of Chanow, to Kazan. Where does the money come for the mighty works? "Ah! Geld", raunt Manzuk. "Freunde und Bekannte schenken uns Baumaterial. Und sie schenken uns ihre Arbeitskraft und ihr Wissen." So ist das im Land der Tataren, das einem während eines viertägigen Aufenthalts tatsächlich wie ein kleines Paradies vorkommt. Was natürlich auch daran liegt, dass die Reiseführer darauf bedacht sind, das in Tourismus-Kreisen noch weitgehend unbekannte Reiseziel mit einem Sinn für das Märchenhafte anzupreisen. Der legendäre Mintimer Schamijew regierte die Republik seit 1991. Er war einer der Schwergewichte unter den russischen Provinzfürsten, einer, dem managed to win by his good relations with Moscow for his republic and maintain maximum independence. Probably also because the Kremlin has a vested interest in Tatarstan. Finally, the Republic is rich in oil. That is why the country is populated by over 3.5 million people, as comparatively wealthy. You can see the daring of new buildings as a shopping center in the shape of a pyramid or the Hotel Riviera, an unsightly skyscraper on the banks of Kazanka you want with its sandy beach and its lying well conjure up a little Italian flair of nouveau riche. You can tell from the huge Kul Sharif Mosque was projecting that its dome and four minarets of the Kremlin over the city enthroned and consecrated after eight years of construction 2005th You can tell from the many construction sites in the 1.1 million inhabitants, as well as the construction projects that will realize the Republic: A new airport terminal, new roads, hotels, a new station to her.

addition, the handlebar Kazan of the opinion that the deep sleep for their 1000 year old city was to be finally over. Kazan, the home of the Russian football champion Rubin Kazan and the famous icon of Our Lady of Russia has had, as a destination a little more attention deserves. Therefore is properly the drum for the Tatar capital, stirred with slogans such as "Kazan where Europe meets Asia", "The three main cities of Russia: Moscow-St. Petersburg-Kazan "or minted on the ethnic and cultural diversity of the city:" The whole world is in Kazan.
Whether Kazan future to the mandatory destination of travelers is east of Moscow, is still in the stars of the Eastern European level. Reasons for this but there is all. Finally, the city at the confluence of the Volga Kazanka and a turbulent history. In the 10th Century, founded by the Volga Bulgars, the city was the center of the Mongol Khanate of Kazan, the Ivan the Terrible, could win only after numerous assaults. Thus, Kazan architecture today, especially Russian and Soviet-dominated. Only in the former Tatar part of the river beyond the Bulak find an older wooden houses and mosque, decorated with ornaments Tatar.

We drive in the small Tatar village Kora Hodja ("black ruler"), which is nestled between rolling hills and lush meadows and fields. Small wooden houses with wild orchards, ornamental fences and gates are lined up along the unpaved roads. It is Sabantuy ("Festival of the Plough"), the summer festival, which dates back to the time of the Volga Bulgars, and is now celebrated as a colorful festival with folklore shows and competitions in the sack race or eggs run. Women in colorful costumes sing and dance to the accordion-playing of a little man with gold teeth and tanned skin.

Back in Kazan falls again, how young the city. Young couples stroll through the pedestrian zone, women in high heels, the men with handbags. One in three people will be under 30. More than 100,000 students studying at 15 universities. As once Lev Tolstoy and Lenin. The center is burning in the summer sun. You eat ice cream, can run cool water over the face. The calm seems to have found their home in Kazan. And even though the pedestrian zone is under constant sonication. Slogans, Russian Popschnulzen, Europe's "Final Countdown" droning on that summer Sunday by Kazan. And no one seems to . Disturb Even this may be a miracle.

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arrival

Lufthansa flies from Frankfurt to Samara to Kazan .

Holidays

There are many hotels in Kazan in different categories. The modern Chaliapin Palace Hotel is located in the center, rooms from 90 €. www.shalyapin-hotel.ru

Sabantuy

The Tartar summer festival takes place at the beginning of the summer (21 June) instead. There is a central Sabantuy hard near Kazan, many towns celebrate their own festivals.

information

www.gokazan.com

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SPIEGEL

14/09/2009

Russia

In the kingdom of the Tartars

From Thomas Heinloth

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Thomas Heinloth

The mosque is located next to the Cathedral: living in the autonomous republic of Tatarstan in Russia for centuries, a multicultural population mix, with which it takes its origins not as accurate: "If we were properly washed, we are all Mongolians. " It is the one day each year on which shakes the desert in the south of Zelenodolsk, the day shivering in the grass and the sun burned the dry birch , to the dust opaque to the race track and field mice flee shod Hooves at a gallop. Two dozen sweaty riders on horses, deep in the saddle, drew the Tubetejka cap over his forehead, on the hunt for an embroidered handkerchief. Who in the wild ride from the branch breaks is a hero for at least a day and that day is long in Zelenodolsk, if not the longest of all.

It is the day of the plow-resistant, Sabantui to celebrate with the Tartars, that the seeding is now done and you can wait for the harvest. And to show the Tatars Sabantui what they are: a great horse people. However, can be found at any one ridden saddle to a pulp Piece of raw beef. The steak tartare, the legend, so came to his delicacy, invented by the French. The real

Tartar steak is usually a kebab on the other hand, fist-sized pieces, mounted on a meter-long spear. They turn now to hundreds of charcoal, and in the plume is mixed grill, the smell of cotton candy, beer and toasted almonds.

Since the late morning, people pour forth from the cement-gray mountains of Zelenodolsk. A steady stream of visitors poured in a celebratory mood in the direction of track, to where rotating carousels and ticket sellers roar.

long since they are not all farmers here, but Sabantui is always a peasant feast was, therefore, is one of the administrative head of the city in his opening speech agricultural excellence, praises cooperatives, which were higher than the plan , and orders distributed to the men and women of Zelenoldolsk who have distinguished themselves particularly in the field at the diet of the Tatar population of maize and wheat. The audience is Luba Feldman and says: "The speech I've known since my school days."

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Luba grew up in a square of machines for living far from the racetrack, "Khrushcheva" says Luba. To sort this the generations of prefabricated housing in the cities of the Sputnik-periphery - to the Communist Party secretaries and presidents, could build them. The latest generation is called "Putinka" towering red brick blocks, even with noise-proof windows. The Brezhnev silos are popular because of its loggias, the Stalin buildings because of their notorious Außenklos. "Khrushcheva is the worst," says Luba, "Thin walls, poor heating.

The thin plate of Zelenodolsk she has long left behind, now lives on the German teacher an hour: in Kazan, Tatarstan where the heart beats. Not far from the ancient University, has studied Lenin and Tolstoy, she lives with her boyfriend in a two-room apartment. A representative residential community: Luba is Russian and Orthodox, and Muslim Tatar her boyfriend. "Is pretty much the average population," says Luba, "but is relative. Tatarstan has always been a multiethnic state. Here were the Volga Bulgarians, Turks, Russians, Ugrofinnen. This has been mixed over the centuries. And when we are washed properly, we're all Mongolians. "

It's not important who goes where in the Russian autonomous republic, where Orient and Occident meet. No Orthodox priests complained, as in the Kazan Kremlin next to the beautiful Annunciation Cathedral three years ago, the Kul-Sharif Mosque was built: an imposing building, turquoise tiled and lined with marble from the Urals and designed with carpets Iran, dominated by five huge minarets.

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men and women pray here in the same room, because Islam Tatarstan is a relaxed, non-dogmatic and thus unveiled. No Imam would start here armed for a few grams of vodka or a glass of "Red October". And remain the Soviet star on the Kremlin's Spassky Tower must. "Nobody wanted to decide if we replace it with the cross or crescent," says Luba, "so we can hang him better." half Europe and half Asia Kazan will be, and again the city of culture, in the spiritual life is founded times Islamic and Orthodox Christian times. Everywhere the smell of fresh paint and cement, in the Tartar district get new plaster minarets, in the streets around the university, where more Russians live, scaffolding towers available around onion. And the secular face of the city on the Volga is being freshly painted: the magnificent facades of the houses at the Bauman-Boulevard, art nouveau and classical, light mint and cream. The downtown area around the Kremlin and the City Hall swept.

on weekends Luba accompany groups of tourists here - only her German, she seldom does. "The shops in the West are already there: McDonald's, Starbucks, Body Shop," she says, "only the people are still missing."

hardly a Russian tourist from Western Europe to find its way here, and the main task Ministry of Tourism is to declare that Kazan has nothing to do with Kazakhstan. Tatarstan is situated off the beaten Russia itineraries and not to the trans-Siberian railway. "But for it," says Luba, "we are situated on the Volga".

Mother ensures all

Matuschka, mother, called here the river, for the Volga provides the Tatars, it makes the desert green, brings fish and ships. Without the Volga Bulgarians would not come here to found a city without the big port Kazan would not become rich, first as a trading base, then with oil.

The Volga Tatars, the Kazan and accompanied by the seasons: in summer they are in the fine sand on the beach baths and watch the fishermen, piled up in the fall the October storm huge waves on the sea Kuibyschewschen as where the Volga meets the Kama and you see even on clear days, no more bank opposite can. And in winter they make road signs onto meter-thick ice for the truck, which then do not need bridges.

"At best, however," says Luba, "is the spring. When the last ice floes across the coastal pastures. And you know that the cold time now is rum. "Then turning soon as the Ferris wheel in Shurale Park again, in Kazan's pedestrian zone around the Bauman Boulevard set the gardener in the hanging baskets the petunias. And on the fields around Zelenodolsk tear the farmers in the still half-frozen ground, put corn and wheat and are counting the days until Sabantui if it smells like cotton candy and back of burnt kebab, and the dust opaque ü about the race track.

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