One of the busiest places in the city.

It seems that everything has calmed down after the culinary event, now we can continue the story about Kazan.
This is my most beautiful morning glorious city was on Teatralnaya Square near the Theater named after. Kamala.

You know, this is probably what a square should look like for people in our cities - beautiful, with places where you can sit and chat. There are flowers and fountains all around.

Beautiful? Of course :) Then we turn a little and see Bulak.

And here is the theater named after. Kamala. Quite an interesting building.

As it turned out, in Kazan performing arts its development began at the beginning of the 19th century. The first Tatar play “Bichara kyz” (“Unhappy Girl”) was written in 1886 by Gabdrakhman Ilyasi (1856-1895). The emergence of a professional Tatar theater is associated with the Tatar Academic theater named after Galiaskar Kamal. The birthday of the TGAT named after Kamal is considered to be December 22, 1906, since it was on this day that the first public performance in the Tatar language took place. The first professional Tatar troupe, which became the embryo of TGAT, was “Sayar” (“wanderer”, “traveler”).

The building itself, in the form in which it exists now, was built in 1986, and Grand opening carried out in early 1987. Those. the theater is practically the same age as me) I couldn’t find any information about the design of the building, why it is what it is. I have strong associations with dostarkhan :)

There are many fountains in the square. They say that the backlight worked in them. I only managed to find signs prohibiting swimming, because it could cause electrocution. But it's still beautiful.

So I’m writing and thinking, why did I like the square so much? And the thought ripened in my head: “Because there are no stupid yellow-green fences here, like in Moscow.” Here's my honest word. They just rip out your eyes. If you noticed, there is also no cool Moscow coloring, all the fences are of a normal dark color. Near the Pyramids, near the Ice Arena, and just along the streets along Bulak - all the fences are beautifully forged and simply gray-black, damn it! You can’t even imagine how positively this affects the perception of the world around you. The eye simply rests and snatches something beautiful from the landscape when this yellow-green ugliness is not poked at it!

Well let's go back to Theater Square. There is a very interesting sculptural composition here:

We look at the sign - “Riddles of Shurale”, a gift from Megafon.
I must say that the comrades from Megafon love to give cities such gifts :) In our Saransk there are probably only about five of his monuments, there is even a whole bridge of wishes, I’ll show you later :) And it seems to me that this is not a bad tradition) Let them continue;)

In the Vakhitovsky district of the city. One of the newest and most comfortable squares and attractions of the city. One of popular places recreation for citizens and one of the stopping places sightseeing tours tourist buses.

The square is oriented along an axis from northeast to southwest and is located between the beginning of the main Tatarstan street and the northern end of Lake Nizhny Kaban from Marsel Salimzhanov street to Mardzhani street. The Tatar Theater is located on the square. Kamala, behind which and Mardzhani Street is the Staro-Tatarskaya Sloboda. In front of the square, across Marcel Salimzhanov Street, there is Tukay Square and then the central city Tukay Square.

Story

On the site of the square there was a poorly preserved low-rise building that did not have much architectural and historical value, unlike some other streets and areas historical center cities. According to General plan 1969 in the first half of the 1970s. it was demolished, and for a decade and a half, this place was occupied by a simple open space and one of the city’s three long-term construction projects - the new building of the Kamala Theater, which was not completed due to the stench from the lake.

By 1986, the lake was cleared, the theater was completed and put into operation, and the current section of the square and the shore of the lake near the theater were landscaped with large square concrete slabs. Then it was planned to increase the area of ​​the square by one and a half times due to the site opposite across Tatarstan Street, connecting both sites with an underground pedestrian crossing, and also give the new large area a name Arts Square. However, this was not carried out due to the extremely high complexity of underground construction in the presence of groundwater and the proximity of reservoirs, and on the site behind Tatarstan Street, for a long time a former wasteland, by 2004 the main building of the Tatar Humanities and Pedagogical University (TGGPU) was built.

The beginning of the square and Tatarstan Street were built on the site where the southernmost Tatarsky Bridge through the Bulak canal, under which in past centuries boats and small vessels passed from Bulak to Nizhny Kaban.

Objects and meaning

For the city's Millennium in 2005, the square was seriously redeveloped. Decorative tiles and granite slabs were laid there, including the terraced levels of the lake shore, as well as on the adjacent Marjani Street, and lamp posts and audio broadcast horns were installed. Two cascades (4 in each) of light and musical fountains were installed on the square, operating from May to October. The fountains of the row closest to the lake are oriented along the axis of the square, the fountains of the row closest to Tatarstan Street are located across and have green areas and benches around. IN winter time year, the fountains are covered with planes on which openwork structures of multi-colored night lighting are installed.

At the shore of the lake on its water surface there is an illuminated dark time day with directed rays of a high-rise water fountain, and there is also a pier for a water pleasure station, where in the late 1990s-2000s. there was also a departure point for small ships plying along Nizhny Kaban.

Under the square there is a technical floor. Below it, at the beginning of the square and Tatarstan Street, there is a drainage system connecting Lake Nizhny Kaban and the Bulak Canal.

At any time of the year, until late in the evening, the square is crowded with vacationing townspeople. The square traditionally hosts the celebration of Nauruz and the Day of the Republic and the City on August 30, Days and Years different countries in Russia and Tatarstan, some official events at outdoors on the occasion of the presentation of republican awards and professional holidays(ceremonial meetings of which are held in the theater), theatrical, musical, literary, circus and other performances and cultural events (during Nauruz, congresses of Turksoy, theater associations, etc.), as well as political rallies and meetings on the main site and terrace levels of small national and religious associations, parkourists, skaters and other informal communities.

Despite the lack of pedestrian communications, the visual continuation of the square on the other side of Tatarstan Street is the site also well-equipped by the TSGPU with a monument to the composer Saidashev and the site at the southern end of the Bulak canal with a large and spectacular green sculpture of the winged leopard Ak Bars - the symbol of Tatarstan located on the coat of arms. The pedestrian continuation of the square is directly adjacent to it the landscaped embankment of Mardzhani Street and the green embankment of Marsel Salimzhanov Street along the lake.

The closest trolleybus and bus stops to the square (as well as trams until 2011) are the Kamala Theater on Tatarstan Street from the Staro-Tatarskaya Sloboda side and Tukay Square on Pushkin Street from the city center. Tourist buses make a stop along Tatarstan Street. Behind the Kamala Theater there is a parking lot for its visitors.

Russia

Kamal Theater Square(tat. Kamal isemendage theaters maydany) - a square in the historical center of Kazan, in the Vakhitovsky district of the city. One of the newest and most comfortable squares and attractions of the city. One of the popular holiday destinations for city residents and one of the stopping places for sightseeing tours of tourist buses.

The square is oriented along an axis from northeast to southwest and is located between the beginning of the main Tatarstan street and the northern end of Nizhny Kaban lake from Marsel Salimzhanov street to Mardzhani street. The Tatar Theater is located on the square. Kamala, behind which and Mardzhani Street is the Staro-Tatarskaya Sloboda. In front of the square across Marcel Salimzhanov Street there is Tukay Square and then the central city Tukay Square.

Story

On the site of the square there was a poorly preserved low-rise building that did not have great architectural and historical value, unlike some other streets and sections of the historical center of the city. According to the 1969 General Plan, in the first half of the 1970s. it was demolished, and for a decade and a half, this place was occupied by a simple open space and one of the city’s three long-term construction projects - the new building of the Kamala Theater, which was not completed due to the stench from the lake.

By 1986, the lake was cleared, the theater was completed and put into operation, and the current section of the square and the shore of the lake near the theater were landscaped with large square concrete slabs. Then it was planned to increase the area of ​​the square by one and a half times due to the site opposite across Tatarstan Street, connecting both sites with an underground pedestrian crossing, and also to give the new large square the name Arts Square. However, this was not carried out due to the extremely high complexity of underground construction in the presence of groundwater and the proximity of reservoirs, and on the site behind Tatarstan Street, which had long been a wasteland, by 2004 the main building of the Tatar Humanitarian Pedagogical University (TGPU) was built.

The beginning of the square and Tatarstan Street were built on the site where the southernmost Tatarsky Bridge through the Bulak canal, under which in past centuries boats and small vessels passed from Bulak to Nizhny Kaban.

Objects and meaning

For the city's Millennium in 2005, the square was seriously redeveloped. Decorative tiles and granite slabs were laid there, including the terraced levels of the lake shore, as well as on the adjacent Marjani Street, and lamp posts and audio broadcast horns were installed. Two cascades (4 in each) of light and musical fountains were installed on the square, operating from May to October. The fountains of the row closest to the lake are oriented along the axis of the square, the fountains of the row closest to Tatarstan Street are located across and have green areas and benches around. In the winter season, the fountains are covered with planes on which openwork structures of multi-colored night lighting are installed.

At the shore of the lake, on its water surface, there is a high-rise water fountain, illuminated at night by directed rays, and there is also a pier for a water pleasure station, where in the late 1990s-2000s. there was also a departure point for small ships plying along Nizhny Kaban.

Under the square there is a technical floor. Below it, at the beginning of the square and Tatarstan Street, there is a drainage system connecting Lake Nizhny Kaban and the Bulak Canal.

Celebrating Great Britain Days in the Square

At any time of the year, until late in the evening, the square is crowded with vacationing townspeople. The square traditionally hosts celebrations of Nauruz and Republic and City Day on August 30, Days and Years of different countries in Russia and Tatarstan, some official outdoor events on the occasion of the presentation of republican awards and professional holidays (ceremonial sessions of which are held in the theater), theatrical, musical , literary, circus and other performances and cultural events (during Nauruz, congresses of Turksoy, theater associations, etc.), as well as political rallies and meetings on the main platform and terrace levels of small national and religious associations, parkour dancers, skaters and other informal communities.

Despite the lack of pedestrian communications, the visual continuation of the square on the other side of Tatarstan Street is the site also well-equipped by TGGPU with a monument to the composer Saidashev and the site at the southern end of the Bulak canal with a large and spectacular green sculpture of the winged leopard Ak Bars - the symbol of Tatarstan located on the coat of arms. The pedestrian continuation of the square is directly adjacent to it the landscaped embankment of Mardzhani Street and the green embankment of Marsel Salimzhanov Street along the lake.

The closest trolleybus and bus stops to the square (as well as trams until 2011) are the Kamala Theater on Tatarstan Street from the Staro-Tatarskaya Sloboda side and Tukay Square on Pushkin Street from the city center. Tourist buses make a stop along Tatarstan Street. Behind the Kamala Theater there is a parking lot for its visitors.

Links

• 3D views of the square of the Kamala Theater and the embankments of Lake Nizhny Kaban on the website “Virtual tour of the city of Kazan”