Kazanka (Volga)
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Kasanka Каза́нка, Казансу (Qazansu) |
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 The Kazanka in Kazan |
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| Water code | RU : 11010000112112100003182 | |
| location | Tatarstan ( Russia ) | |
| River system | Volga | |
| Drain over | Volga → Caspian Sea | |
| source | about 20 km northeast of Arsk 56 ° 15 ′ 41 ″ N , 50 ° 6 ′ 36 ″ E |
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| muzzle | in Kazan in the Kuibyshev reservoir Coordinates: 55 ° 47 '12 " N , 49 ° 4' 34" E 55 ° 47 '12 " N , 49 ° 4' 34" E
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| length | 142 km | |
| Catchment area | 2600 km² | |
| Drain at the mouth |
MQ |
880 l / s |
| Left tributaries | Kismes , Kinderka , Kanderka , Noksa | |
| Right tributaries | Sula , Solonka | |
| Reservoirs flowed through | Kuibyshev reservoir | |
| Big cities | Kazan | |
| Small towns | Arsk | |
| Navigable | about 4 km on the lower reaches in Kazan | |
 The Kazan Kremlin |
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 "View of the Kazanka River" by Lev Lvovich Kamenev |
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The Kazanka ( Russian Каза́нка ; Tatar Казансу / Qazansu) is a 142 km long left tributary of the Volga in the Republic of Tatarstan in the European part of Russia .
description
The Kazanka rises in the northeast of the Autonomous Republic of Tatarstan near the village of Kazanbash and initially flows in a south and south-west direction. In Arsk it turns in a more westerly direction and flows through the eastern Tatarstan.
It flows in wide curves through the agricultural landscape and finally reaches the outskirts of Kazan . In Kazan, the backwater of the Kuibyshev reservoir on the Volga begins , into which the Kazanka finally flows.
Sights and culture
Which lies at the mouth of the Volga Kasanka in Kazan Kremlin , seat of the government of Tatarstan and architectural as an important example of the connecting elements of the Christian Orthodox - Russian and Muslim - Tatar architectural styles since 2000 part of the UNESCO - World Heritage Site .
In 2005 the Millennium Bridge (Russian Мост Милленниум , tatar. Милленниум күпере / Millennium Küpere) was opened in the course of celebrating the 1000th anniversary of Kazan .
A painting by the Russian landscape painter Lev Lwowitsch Kamenew from 1875 is entitled View of the Kazanka River ( Вид на реку Казанку ).
Kazanka is the title of a well-known Russian folk song and dance.
Web links
- Kasanka in the Encyclopedic Dictionary Brockhaus-Efron (russ.)
- Text of the folk song "Kasanka" with German translation
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Article Kasanka in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ a b Kazanka in the State Water Register of the Russian Federation (Russian)
- ↑ Kasanka ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Small Encyclopedic Dictionary Brockhaus-Efron, quoted in. on Yandex (russ.)
