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Here's where I stand as of now:
Moscow ✔️
Moscow Oblast' ✔️
Saint Petersburg ✔️
Leningradskaya Oblast' ✔️
Vladimirskaya Oblast' ✔️
Yaroslavskaya Oblast' ✔️
Ivanovskaya Oblast' ✔️
Krasnodarskij Kraj ✔️
Tulskaya Oblast' ✔️
Tatarstan Republic ✔️
Which means I'm at 10/85. Still 75 to go! Hopefully a lifetime will be enough ⚠️
And indeed, this was my first time in the Republic of Tatarstan. I was bored in Moscow a few evenings ago and I just wondered how the prices looked like for flying on Pobeda at this time of the year, and curiously enough, the times and prices for flying to Kazan AND BACK on the same day were extremely convenient!
So I found myself the following day on a taxi taking me to Moscow Vnukovo to board my flight to Kazan. I had never been to Kazan nor the Republic of Tatarstan before, so I was so up for it and definitely excited! I was also looking forward to go to visit a federal subject in Russia where the majority of the population was Muslim.
The flight went smooth and upon landing I was met with a horrific realisation: it was SOOOOO COLD IN KAZAN! -10 degree weather, snow all over, I definitely wasn't expecting this scenario, but luckily I wasn't completely unprepared as I had gloves, a nice sexy hat and a really practical scarf. The cold surely wasn't going to phase me!
Although it did and I constantly had to enter shops or cafés to find shelter from the atrocious weather conditions. That being sad, the sun was actually shining so up in the sky that, if not for the cold, it was the perfect for filming and taking pictures.
I first walked along Baumana Street (Baumana ulitsa), the main street of Kazan. It is a nice touristy street where most restaurants and souvenir shops are located, at the end of which people can find the most popular landmark of Kazan: its notorious Kremlin with the famous mosque in blue and white colours.
For me standing there was absolutely fascinating. I had been reading about this mosque, I had been watching videos and had seen pictures from friends, and I was so looking forward to seeing this building person. I would argue that outside of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, this might be the landmark in Russia that is most known in the West!
I even had the chance to go inside the museum and the praying room, but I didn't include any footage of that on the video because I thought it would be disrespectful (although you're allowed to take pictures). But trust me and take my word on it: it was amazing.
On the edges of the Kazan Kremlin, a World Heritage Site, was a viewpoint from where tourists could admire the longest river in Europe: indeed, Kazan is one of the cities that the Volga flows through throughout its course from Tverskaya Oblast all the way to the Caspian Sea. If you love geography, and I've always been fascinated with it since my school years, you cannot not be fascinated with the Volga. Throughout history it played such a huge part for civilisation, and the sheer thought of it crossing so many different landscapes and latitudes would have made me travel to Kazan just for that. It usually freezes for three months every year, but it wasn't frozen yet at the time of my visit! Maybe next time.
Lastly but not least, I had to go and buy my souvenir for the collection! I fortunately found a statue of my favourite landmark of Kazan.
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