Kazan International Airport
City bus
Kazan International
Airport is located 26 kilometers from the city centre. It is a hub for
Tatarstan Airlines and Kazan Air Enterprise and hosts 11 air companies.
Airport is connected with city by bus route #97. There is also the Kazan
Borisoglebskoye airfield, home to Kazan Aircraft Production
Association, a major aircraft factory, famous in the past as "Aircraft
Plant 22" ("22nd Zavod"). Adjacent to it lies huge aircraft engines
plant ("16th Zavod"). Currently it produces versions of Tupolev 204 and
214 aircraft, rather unsuccessful version of Boeing 757 single-aisle
aircraft. In the past an Ilyushin-62, four-engine Russian mainliner,
Typolev-160 "Black Jack" supersonic strategic bomber and Tu-22M tactic
bomber were also produced here. Both these plants and adjacent workers'
housing make a whole city district known as "Aviastroitelny" ("Aircraft
Builders").
Railways
Kazan is connected with Moscow, Ulyanovsk, Yoshkar-Ola and Yekaterinburg by railways.
Main
railway station Kazan�Passazhirskaya is located in the city centre and
includes main building (built in 1896), commuter trains terminal, ticket
office building and some other technical buildings. Station serves
thirty-six intercity trains and more than eight million passengers per
annum. The Second terminus called "Kazan-2" is situated in the northern
part of city. Kazan has also nineteen platforms for commuter trains.
Riverside station
Station
serves intercity ships and commuter boats. Pneumocushion boats are used
in winter time. Daily passenger turnover reaches 6 thousands.
Bus stations
There
are two bus stations in Kazan � Central and Southern. Bus routes
connect Kazan with all districts of Tatarstan, Samara, Ufa,
Tolyatti, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk, Cheboksary, Sterlitamak,
