R. Minnikhanov and I. Metshin visited the exhibition center “The Panorama of the City”

(KZN.RU, December 25). Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of Tatarstan, visited the exhibition center “The Panorama of the City” this morning. Olesya Baltusova, the assistant of the President of the RT, Asgat Safarov, the head of the Office of the President, Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, Airat Sibagatullin, the Minister of Culture of the RT, Irek Faizullin, rgw Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing of the RT, and others took part in the exhibition center tour.

The exhibition center is located in Kazan (the street Dzerzhinsky, 7), the exposure of Kazan development is located here, the stages of development of the city and its architecture and history are presented.

Acquaintance with the exposition begins in the lobby of the first floor: there is a screen, which provides information about the main areas of the exhibition center, as well as demonstrated a video about Kazan. Olga Valeeva, the director of the “The Panorama of the City”, gave explanations during the inspection.

The exhibition “Kazan labyrinth” is placed on the second floor. You can get acquainted with the life of the Staro-Tatarskaya Sloboda of Kazan, archival photographs and other documents are presented in showcases.

The attraction “Flying over the city” is located in the next room: the eight-meter screen (video wall) shows pictures of Kazan panoramic shooting from bird's-eye view. The screen is controlled with a joystick: you can find and look closer to the details in 3D mode of any place in the city.

The video-panorama circular room is located here as well: short animated films on the history of the city will be shown on the screen, occupying all 360˚. Rustam Minnikhanov and others were shown an animated film about the old history of Kazan and the appearance of the snake Zilant on the emblem of the city, which is the guardian of Kazan, according to legends.

One of the premises of the second floor is styled as an old tram: there are benches, puppet-conductor, and the panorama of the old city in the windows.

A part of the space on the second floor is the area with sofas and tablets, so that visitors can sit down and read information about Kazan on their own.

City models occupy the third floor. This is a full-scale model of modern urban construction in the scale of 1:320, the XVIII century historical model of the city in the scale of 1:400 and the model of the city with surrounding territories of the Kazan Khanate times in XV-XVI centuries in a scale of 1:1000.

Thus, the model of the central part of the modern Kazan area exceeds 170 square meters. More than 7,000 buildings with all infrastructures placed on its surface. All models of the houses are an exact copy of their originals. 6000 miniature street lighting lamps installed to illuminate the model.

There is the attraction “Augmented reality” in the exhibition center: visitors can make pictures of themselves with historical characters, which alternately succeed each other on the display wall. A screen with an interactive quiz on the Kazan history installed here, you can choose an easy task and more difficult questions in the quiz.

All visitors will receive at the entrance the tablets, audio guides with individual headphones for self-guided tours on the exhibition. Cafes and a children's area will operate. The complex is designed for the simultaneous visit of 120 people.

All expositions are created using modern digital technologies.

Historical material is presented in very interesting way, said Rustam Minnikhanov, estimating a tour of the exhibition center. He asked when the center will be open to everyone, and suggested to the organizers to consider the possibility of opening already during the winter school holidays. This will be especially interesting for children, said Rustam Minnikhanov, they will find a lot to see and learn.

It is expected that many tourists, guests of Kazan will visit the exhibition center “The Panorama of the City” in the future. Guided tours will be organized for students of the municipal districts of the republic, reports the press-service of the President of the RT.