Old story of the city

“Kazan is preparing for the demolition of a number of monuments - architectural structures of the republican and federal levels. Buildings age from 200 to 300 years under the protection of the law may be destroyed very soon. "NG" (Nezavisimaya Gazeta – Independent Newspaper) has received such information from a source in the government of Tatarstan. Monuments that are being prepared for the destruction are located in the center of Kazan, where land is very expensive. Land freed after demolition is going to be used for building new facilities”, part of an article from a newspaper of 2^nd of December 2010.

This is whole true. Kazan is being torn down, especially in the center of the city. It used to be composed of many architectural monuments approximately 20 years ago, and now they are being destroyed. The reason is that those old buildings are owned by private persons and they suppose to look after those buildings, but usually they say that there is not enough funding or resources to look after or to reconstruct. Those people start to do appropriate actions but then stop in the middle of a process because of “not enough funding”. After what government of Republic decides that building is not a monument anymore because of decrepitude of it. After what building is being destroyed.

People of Kazan think that those buildings have to be reconstructed and restorated for future uses and generations, for saving them as historical monuments of the city with a 1000 year history which are making the face of the city.

For example there is a building – the oldest civilian two-storey house made of stone in the middle of XVII century which used to be a tea serving fabric and was a monument till nowadays – is going to be demolished  because it is staying near a new road which has to be build before Kazan Universiade of 2013 and area under that building is planned to be used as parking.