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
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