Kazan City Hall
   Photo: Kazan City Hall

Kazan City Hall, located in the central part of the city, at Freedom Square. Nearby is the building Concert Hall. S.Saydasheva and Opera and Ballet Theatre. Jalil.

The building of the town hall was built in 1854. The author of the project was the architect MP Corinthian. It was a two-storey building with an attic.

The building was intended to Kazan Noble Assembly. Noble Assembly was in the town hall before the 1917 revolution. It was about elite urban society. The building held receptions in honor of the distinguished guests, as well as concerts, which were Chaliapin and Rachmaninoff, read poems Mayakovsky.

After the Revolution, the building was visited Peasants Assembly, the Palace soldiers and the home of the Red Army. For a long time in the Soviet period, the building was the House officers.

The last restoration of the town hall held to the millennial anniversary of Kazan. The modern town hall - a four-storey-house. During the restoration again made luxury moldings decorating the ceilings and walls of the building. Newly built and laid patterned parquet floor and marble decoration of the interior parts of the building.

On the ground floor of the town hall is a large room for events of an official nature and the hall, which displays gifts made by the city. On the second floor there is the Hall of Columns. During the restoration work it was fully restored its unique acoustics. On the third floor there are two halls for various activities and offices. The superstructure of the dome floor is a hall, where the official events. Dome superstructure crowned spire.

The town hall is a branch of the Museum of the 1000th anniversary of Kazan.

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