Tag Archives: Kazan
Part II: «Казань – ленинская» [Lenin’s Kazan’] Posted by josefina on May 10, 2010
«Казанский государственный университет» [Kazan’ State University] is since 1925 and still today «имени Владимира Ильича Ульянова–Ленина» [named after Vladimir Il’ich Ul’yanov-Lenin]. And in front of the university’s main building we have a very young «Володя Ульянов» [Volodya Ul’yanov] – aged seventeen and not yet aware of his imminent expulsion from the university… In August 1887…
Part I: « Казань – историческая» [The Historical Kazan’] Posted by josefina on May 9, 2010
This post is about the city of Kazan’, the capital of Tatarstan, which is a republic of the Russian Federation.