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| | Kazan - a thousand-year city with surprising and brilliant history |
 | | This is Kazan, one of the most important industrial and cultural centres of the Volga region, in whose history from time immemorial the influences of the civilisations of East and West have fused and interwoven. |
 | | Kazan, which like Rome stands on seven hills, is the capital of an ancient people and country whose names, though familiar, are shrouded in misconceptions. |
 | | The Tatars have their own language, their own culture, their own age-old traditions and festivals, their own faith, but their past has been and remains intertwined with the history of Russia in the most dramatic and sometimes fateful way. |
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