(KZN.RU, December 17, Alena Miroshnichenko). From December 29, 2018 to January 7, 2019, the winter festival “KyshDaKar-Fest” will take place on the central pedestrian streets of Kazan: Bauman and Peterburgskaya. There will be a festive fair with Christmas decorations, gifts, handmade souvenirs and fresh products from local farmers. Daria Sannikova, the director of the Tourism Promotion Committee, announced this today at the Business Monday.
She said that 20 fair houses will open for Kazan citizens and guests of the capital at the “KyshDaKar-Fest”. Along with souvenirs and gifts at the festival, you can purchase the best dairy products from farms, for example, Brie and Camembert cheese, cheese with truffle and paprika, bread by Kazan baker Farit Zagidullin. One of Kazan cheese-makers will delight visitors with a show about the conversion of milk into cheese. The fair will also feature natural meat delicacies, the well-known kasylyk, a dried horse meat cooked according to old Tatar recipes, pork and turkey products.
“The main idea of the event is to create festive city activities for existing flows of people, not to organize them in order to attract the audience”, notes D. Sannikova.
“The New Year's Fair adorns the city and, of course, creates the New Year's holiday mood. This year it will bright in a new way. I hope the festival will resonate with the expectations of residents. We glad that in addition to catering, our farmers are joining us. This is our contribution to the small and medium-sized businesses, in the promotion of their goods. In general, all events are held for Kazan residents in order to create a festive mood”, concluded Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan.
The fair will be open from 29 to 31 of December from 12 pm to 9 pm near the underpass on Peterburgskaya. From 2 to 7 of January, it will move to Bauman Street behind the building of the Academy of Sciences of the RT.