Kazan (disambiguation)

Kazan is the capital 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, large airfield north of the city

Places

• 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
• Kazan, a village in Doğubayazıt, Turkey
• Great and Small Kazan gorges, part of the Iron Gate gorge of the Danube River

People

• Emperor Kazan (968–1008), Japanese emperor
• Ghazan (1271–1304), 13th century Mongol leader of the Ilkhanate
• Watanabe Kazan (1793–1841), Japanese politician and painter
• Abraham E. Kazan (1889–1971), American trade union activist
• Elia Kazan (1909–2003), American theatre and film director
• Lainie Kazan (born 1940), American actress
• Nicholas Kazan (born 1950), American writer, producer and director
• Zoe Kazan (born 1983), American actress and playwright

Fiction

• Kazan (character), from the 1997 movie Cube
• Kazan (novel), 1914 book by James Oliver Curwood
• Kazon, fictional race in the Star Trek universe
• Kazan, a manga by Gaku Miyao

Historical formations

• Khanate of Kazan, a medieval state in Europe
• Kazan Governorate, within the Russian Empire
• İske Qazan, an historic town in modern-day Tatarstan
• 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 (Graney class)
• Kazan Helicopters, a Russian helicopter design bureau and manufacturer

See also

• Kazanka (disambiguation)
• Kazansky (disambiguation)
• Qazan (disambiguation)