Iske-Kazan State Historical, Cultural and Natural Museum-Reserve

In 45 km to the north-east of modern Kazan, near the villages of Tatar Aisha, Kamaevo, Russian Urmat of the Vysokogorsky district of the Republic of Tatarstan, on the sacred place throughout the Order, there is a whole complex of unique historical, cultural, archaeological and natural sites, now included in the protective zone of the Iske-Kazan State Museum-Reserve (IKGMZ). "Iske Kazan" translated into Russian means "Old Kazan" (plainland of the Kazanka River).

Iske-Kazan is a large and bright link of the Bulgarian and Kazan-Tatar material culture. Among the most valuable finds in the museum, it is necessary to include the Giuchid coins of the XIV - XV centuries, unique exhibits are 2 bronze mirrors of the VI century BC, found near the Kamaev settlement, the Hun cauldron of the V century AD, 2 tombstones: 1281/1282 and 1494. This category also includes iron balls-core and clay hollow ball XIII-XV centuries.

Rich and ethnographic collection of the museum, relating to the end of XIX - early XX centuries. It presents the main forms of occupation of the Kazan Tatars, agriculture and livestock, crafts and crafts, as well as their clothes and jewelry, interesting complexes of various social strata of the rural population. Visitors can get acquainted with a collection of decorative woven towels, napkins, sleeves, made within the framework of ornamental and technological traditions, samples of Tatar woven paths and a tool for their manufacture - a loom. Rich collection of jewelry women's jewelry: cholps, bracelets, rings, brooches. In the areas of Zakazania have long lived no less skillful masters in the manufacture of leather patterned shoes. Leather ichigi will surprise visitors with the juiciness of flowers, thoroughness of embroidery of connecting seams. Walking through the exhibition and ethnographic hall, you can get acquainted with the interior of a peasant Tatar hut, the life of a wealthy Tatar family, the corner of a madrasah (rural school), the corner of a craftsman, etc.