Birds of Kazan Millennium Park

Before the park was created, Poperechno-Georgievskaya Street and Uzenkaya Street crossed here; they are now Aydinova Street and Ostrovsky Street. Poperechno-Georgievskaya connected Georgievskaya Square with Myasnitskaya Street at the shore of Lake Nizhny Kaban, which often overflowed and flooded the neighbourhood. Until the 2000s, the site held single-storey private houses associated with Degtyarnaya Street. The dilapidated buildings had been demolished by 2005, and the cleared ground was landscaped in one summer for Kazan’s millennium celebrations. The park opened on 26 August 2005. Its main avenue, Millennium Avenue, was intended to symbolise the city’s long development; at the opening ceremony, blue spruces were proposed for planting along it. A monument to Kul Gali, a medieval poet of Volga Bulgaria who died during the Mongol invasion in the 13th century, stands on the avenue leading to the south-eastern gates. It was unveiled when the park opened.

Birds recorded nearby include mallard, rock pigeon, great crested grebe, Eurasian coot and hooded crow.