Monument Musa Jalil, Tatar poet and patriot, is located at the main entrance of the Kazan Kremlin, near the Spassky Tower. The sculpture is installed in 1966. The authors of the monument are sculptor and architect L.G.Golubovsky V.E.Tsigal.

The monument is a complex consisting of a granite platform trapezoidal, raised above ground level, the sculpture of the poet and a granite wall. From the Millennium Square at the monument raised granite staircase. In the center of the composition is the flower bed, and next to it there are benches made of polished granite stone. On a bronze monument to the poet's facsimile signature. On the granite wall stylized images of swallows and quotes from poems Jalil. One of the lines is particularly well known: "My life is a song ringing in the nation, Death is my fight song sound".

Jalil (Zalilov) Musa Mustafovich born February 2, 1906, executed in the prison Plettsenzee 08/25/1944 In 1956 he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously).

In the years 1914 -1919 the poet studied at the Kazan madrassas, in 1919 -1924 years - in Orenburg in the Tatar Institute of Education. In 1925 - 1927 years Moussa worked as an instructor of the Komsomol district committees. From 1927 to 1931 he studied at Moscow State University and has worked in children's magazines published in his native Tatar language. In 1933 Musa charge of the department of literature in the newspaper "Communist". In 1935 he worked as head of the literary section in the Tatar Opera Studio, which was located in Moscow. Already in these years began to emerge collection of his poems in Tatar. He writes lyrics and popular songs. He is the author of the libretto of the opera "Altynchech", which in 1948 was awarded the USSR State Prize.

From 1931 to 1941, Musa is the executive secretary of the Union of Writers of Tatarstan. In 1941 he was called to the front of the second correspondent Shock Army, which was called the "Courage". In 1942, he was seriously wounded and captured. He passed through the concentration camps in the Baltic States, Poland and Germany. In German captivity, he organized a group of Tatar prisoners of war who fought subversion against the fascists. In the camps in Moabit prison in Berlin, he continued to write poetry. August 25, 1944 he, along with his teammates on the underground was executed. This happened in Nazi prison Plettsenzee.

Miraculously, through Belgium and France, reached two of his notebook with poems written in captivity. They had 93 poems. Notebooks are called "Moabit". During this cycle of poems Musa Jalil in 1957 he was awarded the Lenin Prize.