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Pages of history
Big cities never appear suddenly, they grow from small settlements. The area occupied by the place where The ancient settlement grew on a place where the Kazanka river flows into the A lot of Volga Bulgarian people came to these lands in the Bronze Age. Men were hunters, women took up primitive farming. In the Bronze Age several settlements appeared on the territory of the present They built a settlement on the Kremlin hill, which grew into the modern city o This state was an important centre of international trade. Bulgar leather goods of high quality, furs, wool were bought not only in the countries of the East, but also in Towns with beautiful palaces and schools, stone and wooden houses, buildings with central heating and other structures were built at that time. Science, philosophy and literature were also developing. The culture of the Golden Horde influenced the Tatar people greatly. Lots of villages and towns were burnt during the Mongolian invasion in 1236-1240. Soon they were reconstructed. From the second half of the 13th century hard times began for the city. The country became a part of the territory of the Golden Horde. Some Bulgars moved to another place. It became the centre of a new independent state. Its development began in the second half of the 14th century. It attracted migrants and merchants. In 1399, It took the role of the former state of Volga In its Golden Age Kazan occupied the territory of In the early 16th century the peaceful life of the town ended.
The life of the
In summer and autumn 1552 Ivan the Terrible, the Russian tsar, attacked thousand army, led by Ivan the Terrible, took became a trading and administrative centre of the region. In the middle of the 17th century The reforms of Peter I opened a new period in the history of In July 1774 clouds of dust appeared from the side of Arskoye Pole. They were parts of In the early 19th century there were many big and small enterprises and handicraft shops. In 1874 the water supply system began to work. The streets were lit with gas. There was electricity in some houses. In 1875 the first line of the horse railway was built. In 1899 the first electric train appeared in the streets. There were more than 5 000 houses and 237 streets in At the end of the 19th century In the 20th century
At the beginning of the 20th century were very important. In 1919-1920 an epidemic of typhus began. Many people died, thousands of people migrated from the city. Later the enterprises were reconstructed, a new bridge across the Kazanka river was built. The city radio started working. New clinics were opened. New parks and workers' clubs were organised. There were great changes in the cultural life. Famous Tatar composers, painters, architects began their work. With the beginning of the Second World War life in the city changed. In the 1950s new public buildings appeared: the Opera and Ballet Theatre, lots of houses of culture and cinemas: Druzhba, Pobeda, Mir, Zvezda. In 1959 the At the end of the 20th century together with the whole country In the 21st century great investment projects are to be introduced in
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