Kasan


Kasan:

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, city (1989 est. pop. 1,094,000), capital of Tatarstan, E European Russia, on the Volga. It is a major historic, cultural, industrial, and commercial center. Manufactures include chemicals, explosives, electrical equipment, building materials, consumer goods, and furs.
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Kasan

 

a city (prior to 1972, a kishlak, or hamlet), the center of the Kasan Raion, Kashkadar’ia Oblast, Uzbek SSR. Located on the river bank of the Kashkadar’ia River, on the Karshi-Bukhara highway, 4 km from the Kasan railroad station (on the Kagan-Termez line) and 30 km northwest of Karshi. Population, 24, 000 (1972). Kasan has two cotton mills, a porcelain factory, a brickworks, a brewery, and a vegetable-oil extraction plant.