Kazan events through May 2027

BRICS Construction Week combines discussions about the industry’s development with exhibitions where visitors can explore offers from developers and suppliers. It is relevant to people working in property, construction, design and building services, as well as visitors comparing residential developments.

ETM Forum is for people who work with electrical equipment and building services systems and want to see solutions in action. It combines an exhibition with conferences and practical sessions, allowing visitors to explore products and discuss their applications with specialists.

TEMP brings together industrial equipment and the people who develop and supply it. The exhibition covers metalworking, mechanical engineering and welding, while the business programme explores technological solutions. For engineers, production managers and procurement specialists, it is a chance to combine time at the stands with professional meetings in one trip.

The Congress of Traumatologists and Orthopaedists is a professional gathering for doctors, researchers and heads of specialist centres. In Kazan, participants can discuss approaches to diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation for people with musculoskeletal conditions.

Kazan Agro offers a reason for a business trip if you work in agriculture and are looking for equipment, technology or partners. The exhibition brings together different stages of agricultural production, from crop and livestock farming to processing, packaging and the food industry.

Energoprom brings electricity-sector professionals together for a business programme alongside an exhibition of equipment and technology. It makes sense to arrive with a specific work objective: explore solutions for your company, discuss industry developments or meet partners.

Russian Venture Forum brings together people developing technology projects, seeking investment or looking for business solutions. For visiting professionals, it combines a chance to discover startups with conversations about how projects can grow.

KazanForum focuses on economic cooperation between Russia and countries of the Islamic world. It offers a business reason to visit Tatarstan for meetings, introductions to projects and partnership discussions. Entrepreneurs, company representatives, industry organisations and delegations are its main audience.

Atmosfera brings together people who create and develop places for leisure: hotels, restaurants, cafés, countryside resorts and tourism projects. The forum-festival is relevant both to established businesses and to people planning their first venture.

At City of Fallen Letters, a letter becomes more than a sign: it turns into a house, a monument or a tangled city district. Tiny characters inhabit Ivan Yazykov’s graphic worlds, with stories hiding among everyday details. This exhibition suits visitors who enjoy looking at a drawing for a long time and discovering things they missed at first.

The Sofia Gubaidulina festival explores the variety of twentieth-century orchestral music. CONCORDIA’s November programme brings together Ligeti’s sound worlds, Bartók’s piano writing, Khachaturian’s violin music and Prokofiev’s symphonic work. Choose an evening around your musical interests or compare two different programmes.

Absolute Light explores how landscape becomes a story about colour, twilight and radiance. The Tatarstan Museum of Fine Arts presents works by Arkhip Kuindzhi from the Russian Museum’s collection alongside paintings by his pupils. It is a choice for an unhurried museum day in Kazan: look at the paintings from a distance, then move closer to explore the details.

The Hermitage-Kazan exhibition tells the story of the last imperial family through objects: uniforms, dresses, toys and furnishings from palace rooms. Behind the formal portraits, everyday life, family habits and the children’s world come into view. It suits visitors who enjoy exploring historical details alongside a chronology of events.

A delegation arrives in a small village in the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic to congratulate a local woman on her hundredth birthday. The celebration unexpectedly becomes an inquiry that changes how people see the past. The Bridge / Küper is Kamal Theatre’s premiere of Rail Safin’s debut play, with questions of guilt, memory and human connections behind an apparently simple incident.

A pair of gold-embroidered shoes disappears, setting off a comic story with romantic and dramatic consequences. Slippers combines Jawdat Fayzi’s music with a libretto by Tazi Gizzat. Choose this evening if you enjoy musical comedy and want to discover Tatar theatre.

Elena Vaenga’s solo concert offers an evening devoted to one voice and a recognisable performance style. The official ticket announcement focuses on her own songs and emotional storytelling on stage. Make it the musical part of a short visit to Kazan.

The Blue Shawl offers an introduction to Tatar theatre through a work long established within its tradition. Karim Tinchurin’s melodrama combines dramatic action with music, aria-like monologues and choruses. Follow the story while hearing how the stage language expresses a sense of freedom and attachment to the homeland.

I Love You, Life! brings a symphony orchestra together with soprano Hibla Gerzmava. Vladimir Spivakov conducts the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia. The evening combines song with large-scale orchestral music and may appeal to listeners with different musical tastes.

Grigory Leps’s music brings together pop, rock and chanson, with his expressive voice at its centre. The Kazan concert can appeal to listeners who want to hear familiar songs in a large hall and make live music part of a weekend in the city.

Turetsky Choir’s anniversary concert centres on vocal harmonies and changes of musical style. Classical excerpts, international popular music, folk songs and the ensemble’s own repertoire meet in one evening. It offers a choice for listeners who enjoy varied vocal sounds.

Denis Matsuev Among Friends presents two different symphonic evenings in Kazan. The pianist performs with the Tatarstan State Symphony Orchestra under Alexander Sladkovsky. Your choice changes the musical experience: one concert focuses on Shostakovich, the other on Grieg.

Sergey Trofimov’s concert offers an evening of his own songs and stories about familiar human experiences. The venue’s announcement focuses on love, encounters, separation and memories. Choose it if you want a musical evening built around repertoire that matters to you.

In Forever, Polina Gagarina creates a stage story from different periods of her career. Songs come together with lighting installations and a large live sound. Choose this concert if both her vocals and the visual side of a pop show interest you.

Alex Lim is known for covers in different languages and his own songs. His Kazan concert is for listeners interested in expressive vocals and a combination of familiar melodies with the artist’s original material.

Kemal collects objects connected with his beloved Füsun, as though they could preserve a lost happiness. In the stage version of Orhan Pamuk’s novel, love becomes a story about time, memory and the cost of personal choices. Kamal Theatre’s production may appeal to readers of Pamuk and visitors who enjoy psychological drama.

Iakinf tells the story of Nikita Bichurin, a scholar of Asian cultures and traveller who took the monastic name Iakinf. His life connects Kazan, Beijing and Saint Petersburg. Visitors to Tatarstan can discover a figure from the former Kazan Governorate through contemporary ballet.

Kazan’s Swan Lake brings Tchaikovsky’s music together with Vladimir Vasilyev’s personal interpretation. The 2025 production revisits Odette and Siegfried’s story through different choreography and stage space. It offers an evening for visitors who enjoy narrative ballet and comparing interpretations of familiar works.

Andrey Beburishvili brings his solo stand-up programme Udobny to Kazan. If you enjoy his storytelling style, you can make the performance part of a trip with friends.

In It All Comes from Childhood, Ivan Abramov looks at adult life through childhood memories and familiar reactions. This solo stand-up show turns recognisable experiences into a conversation with the audience. It can appeal to people who enjoy his way of joking about everyday life.

Hermann loves Liza, but the secret of three winning cards increasingly takes over his life. In The Queen of Spades, personal feeling confronts a desire for wealth, while reality gradually mingles with delusion. Choose Tchaikovsky’s opera for an evening of large-scale drama, orchestral music and singing.

The tenth Abyazov Festival explores the diversity and traditions of music among Russia’s peoples. Kazan’s La Primavera Chamber Orchestra invites audiences to discover different musical languages within one festival programme. Choose a concert for a cultural trip and hear how tradition meets chamber performance.

Lyube’s music combines a rock sound with folk influences, with Nikolay Rastorguyev’s voice remaining a recognisable part of the band’s identity. The Kazan concert can appeal to listeners who want to hear this repertoire in a large hall alongside other fans.

This Nutcracker brings together figure skating, ballet and Tchaikovsky’s music performed by a live symphony orchestra. The familiar New Year story moves into a different space: dance takes to the ice, while the orchestra remains part of the action. The show may interest families, skating fans and visitors looking for a festive musical evening.

Stas Piekha’s solo concert offers an evening devoted to one performer and his songs. The Kazan announcement includes both familiar compositions and new material, so it can appeal to regular fans and listeners who know only a few of his songs.

In Nagasaki, the young Cio-Cio-San marries the American officer Pinkerton and believes he will return to her. The marriage becomes her destiny, while he sees it differently. Puccini’s opera explores love, waiting and two conflicting ideas about the future.

Choose MakSim’s solo concert for songs connected with personal memories and a whole period of popular music. Trudny Vozrast and Znaesh Li Ty are two examples of her repertoire that you can explore through her official music videos before travelling.

Tatar Zhyry is a festival of Tatar popular music, where traditional musical expression meets contemporary arrangements. Visitors to Kazan can discover a living part of Tatarstan’s popular culture, while fans can hear familiar repertoire in a large concert setting.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs offers children an introduction to ballet through a familiar fairy tale. Kazan Choreographic School students dance every role to a recording of Karen Khachaturian’s music. The Brothers Grimm story becomes a stage world of colourful costumes, scenery and dance.

Disco Legends is an evening of 1980s and 1990s dance-pop that you can add to a New Year visit to Kazan. The organiser brings several acts to one stage, making it a large shared show rather than a solo concert.

Piknik combines rock music with an unusual stage world of imagery, lighting and visual stories. The band has announced its Eternal Motion programme in Kazan. Choose this concert if the theatrical side of a performance matters to you as much as its sound.

Songs from the Outskirts brings Garik Sukachev’s familiar songs from different years into musical stories about life, love and freedom. It can appeal to listeners who enjoy both the rock-and-roll energy and the lyrical side of his work.

Include Philipp Kirkorov’s solo concert in a holiday visit to Kazan: spend the day in the city, then head to Tatneft Arena for the late afternoon. It is an option for fans of Russian pop who want to hear him live.

Uralskiye Pelmeni brings its Best Of programme to Kazan. It is a chance to see the comedy team familiar from television live on stage, with sketches, characters and interaction with the audience. Fans of the group’s humour can add the evening to a trip with friends.

Symphonic Kino presents Viktor Tsoi’s familiar music through the combination of guitar and a full orchestra. Yuri Kasparyan, Kino’s guitarist, performs on stage. Choose this evening if you want to rediscover the songs as well as hear how their sound changes in a symphonic arrangement.

Add an Ak Bars home game to your trip for a favourite team or for hockey itself: rapidly changing attacks, battles around the goal and the atmosphere of a large arena. November’s programme lets you choose an opponent and date without building the whole visit around one evening.

Make volleyball a separate part of a visit to Kazan: follow how rallies develop, serves change and the team responds to opponents’ attacks. Zenit-Kazan has announced November home games against Yaroslavich, Belogorye and Kuzbass. Choose an opponent and evening that fits your plans.

A basketball evening in Kazan offers a chance to see UNICS at home and choose a game by its opponent. The announced programme includes a November fixture against Yenisey and a December game against CSKA. One suits an autumn visit; the other can become part of a New Year trip.

Rubin hosts Saint Petersburg’s Zenit in a Russian Premier League match. Visitors to Kazan can watch the local club at home, support either team and spend part of a Saturday at the stadium. Combine the football evening with plans in the city before kick-off.

Kazan Marathon offers a reason to spend the May holiday weekend in the city around a major running event. In 2027, the main distances take place on separate days: choose the 10km race, half marathon or full marathon. The trip can suit participants and visitors supporting family or friends.