Weymouth pine ( Pinus strobus L.), age 256 years, Kazan, March 2024 In Kazan there are three lakes connected by channels, they appeared on the site of the former large bend of the Volga River. These are the Lower Kaban Lake, located in the historical center of Kazan, the largest of the three lakes - the Middle Kaban Lake, which stretches from the Kazan Zoo in the Vakhitovsky district to the Farmers' Highway in the Privolzhsky district, in the southern part of the city, and the smallest of the three lakes - the Upper Kaban Lake, even further south. Lake Nizhny Kaban, Kazan, May 2023 The total area of the lake system is 186 hectares. The places are beautiful and populated. I n 1665 metropolitan Lavrentiy founded in Kazan on a picturesque place opposite the Sredny Kaban lake on the top of a hill the Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery , similar to the one founded 9 years earlier by Patriarch Nikon on the Istra River in the Moscow region. Until the XX centuary it...