Kazan (disambiguation)

Kazan is the capital city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.

Kazan may also refer to:

Airports in Kazan, Russia

• Kazan International Airport, 25 km southeast of Kazan
• Kazan-2 Airport, older airfield now in the northeastern part of the city
• Kazan-Borisoglebskoye, alternative name of Borisoglebskoye airfield, an experimental airfield north of the city

Places

• Kazan Urban Okrug, a municipal formation which the city of republic significance of Kazan in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia is incorporated as
• Kazan, Ankara, a suburb and a metropolitan district of Ankara, Turkey
• Kazan River, a river in the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut, Canada
• Kazan Region, the part of the Canadian Shield located in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan, with parts in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut
• Great and Small Kazan gorges, part of the Iron Gates gorge of the Danube River
• İske Qazan, "Old Kazan", a historic town in modern-day Tatarstan

People

• Emperor Kazan (968–1008), Japanese emperor
• Abraham E. Kazan (1889–1971), American trade union activist
• Elia Kazan (1909–2003), American theatre and film director
• Frances Kazan, English-born author
• Lainie Kazan (born 1940), American actress
• Lucas Kazan (born 1965), Italian director and producer of porn
• Molly Kazan (1906–1963), American dramatist and playwright
• Nicholas Kazan (born 1950), American writer, producer, and director
• Rabia Kazan (born 1976), Turkish journalist
• Steven Kazan, American attorney
• Vangelis Kazan (1936/1938–2008), Greek character actor
• Watanabe Kazan (1793–1841), Japanese politician and painter
• Zoe Kazan (born 1983), American actress and playwright

Fiction

• Kazan, a character from Cube, the 1997 movie
• Kazan (novel), 1914 book by James Oliver Curwood
• Kazan, a manga by Gaku Miyao

Historical formations

• Khanate of Kazan (1438–1552), a medieval state in Europe
• Kazan Governorate (1708–1920), a division of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the early Russian SFSR
• Kazan Principality, a principality within Volga Bulgaria and the Golden Horde

Other uses

• Our Lady of Kazan, Orthodox icon of the Theotokos
• Kazan (cookware), Turkic term for a boiler and especially a cooking pan
• FC Rubin Kazan, a Russian football club based in the city of Kazan (Tatarstan republic).
• Russian submarine Kazan (Yasen class)
• Kazan Helicopters, a Russian helicopter design bureau and manufacturer
• Kazan Wildland Park, a provincial park in Alberta, Canada

See also

• Kazanka (disambiguation)
• Kazansky (disambiguation)
• Kazan Cathedral (disambiguation)
• Kazon, fictional race in the Star Trek universe
• Qazan (disambiguation)
• Gazan (disambiguation)
• Ghazan (1271–1304), 13th century Mongol leader of the Ilkhanate
• Kāsān, alternative name of Kesar, a village in Gilan Province, Iran