Educational tours

The A.A. Shtukenberg Geological Museum dates back to 1804, the founding of Kazan University. Its collection holds over 430,000 items from 60 countries — from a large ore and mineral collection to a complete mammoth skeleton found in 1898 and samples of lunar and Martian rocks.

Visit formats

• guided tour — the classic walk through the exhibition, individually or as a group;
• museum classes — a themed tour plus hands-on work with specimens or replicas; children may touch the samples;
• geology quests with riddles and answer-hunting;
• workshops where participants make a keepsake;
• custom programme on a topic agreed in advance;
• audio guide in Russian, English and Chinese (1 hour).

Audience: families, school classes, geology students and anyone curious about Earth sciences.

Practical notes

• tour groups of 5 to 20 people; groups of 15+ may choose a convenient time;
• all programmes by advance booking only, ideally 5–7 working days ahead;
• per the KFU Museums Directorate website (2026), tickets cost 250–2,100 RUB depending on programme and group size; the audio guide is 250 RUB;
• open Monday to Saturday.

Поездка из Казани в Иннополис: университетский кампус, технопарк Попова, технологии городской среды и мастер-класс по искусственному интеллекту. После экскурсии участники попробуют составлять запросы к нейросетям и создавать собственные тексты и изображения.

Формат: экскурсия и практическое занятие, 6 часов с дорогой. Участники: школьники от 13 лет и студенты, группа до 50 человек.

Стоимость по запросу. В расписании предусмотрены трансфер из Казани и обратно и время на обед. Состав оплачиваемых услуг, место посадки и дату подтверждает организатор.

The Blue Lakes on the northern edge of Kazan are a protected nature area with a chain of karst lakes whose water stays cold and crystal clear all year round. The quest "Secrets of the Blue Lake" runs here and is listed in the national selection of popular-science routes as an "open-air laboratory".

How the quest works

• ten nature-exploration stations;

The House of Entertaining Science and Technology on Tukay Street is Tatarstan's main interactive science museum. It occupies the historic former Furriers' House of Culture, and its exhibits are meant to be touched.

What visitors see and try

• the descent module of the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft, which spent 188 days in orbit;
• an L-29 Delfin jet and a Mi-2 helicopter;
• dozens of interactive exhibits where visitors run experiments themselves;
• guided tours and workshops: building and launching model aircraft and rockets, making radio-electronic devices and more.

children, teenagers and adults; great for a family weekend and for school classes that want hands-on physics.

The V.P. Engelhardt Astronomical Observatory of Kazan Federal University (Oktyabrsky village, Zelenodolsk district) is an early-20th-century science campus; seven of its buildings are listed as Tatarstan heritage sites. Next to it stands the KFU Planetarium, the only one in Russia built on the grounds of a working observatory.

Observatory overview tour (1.5 hours)

• how it began: astronomer V.P. Engelhardt's gift and D.I. Dubyago's work;
• architecture of the campus, the main building and the heliometer pavilion;
• a precision sundial and how it works;
• historic telescopes, the evolution of observing methods and current KFU research.

The Zoological Museum of Kazan University is one of Russia's oldest. It occupies eight halls on the second floor of the east wing of the KFU main building. The tour "Diversity of Earth's Animal Life" covers the zoology departments — invertebrates and vertebrates.

What you will see

• foraminifera shell models, sponge skeletons, corals, molluscs and crustaceans;
• an entomology hall with insects of unusual shapes and colours;
• vertebrate anatomy: skulls and skeletons of different groups;
• fishes of the world, amphibians and reptiles — including the tuatara, the most primitive living reptile;
• a bird hall (about 1,500 mounts, including birds-of-paradise, hoatzin and kiwi) and a mammal hall (about 300 specimens) with Russia's only mounted quagga, an extinct zebra.

The E.K. Zavoisky Museum-Laboratory occupies the very room in Kazan University's main building where electron paramagnetic resonance was discovered in 1944. It hosts the museum class "Electricity Catchers" about how people studied and "tamed" electricity.

What happens in the class

• a story of how scientists step by step uncovered electricity and which discoveries changed everyday life;
• interactive experiments and demonstrations;
• a workshop where participants build their own galvanic battery;
• the highlight — generating current by hand and lighting a bulb.

The class is led by the head of the museum-laboratory. The museum also runs other children's sessions: "A Voice from Afar" on the invention of the telephone, "The Watchmaker", and a telegraph-history class.

The N.I. Lobachevsky Museum opened in 2017 in Kazan University's "rector's house", where the great mathematician and creator of non-Euclidean geometry lived as rector. It runs a maths quest for school pupils.

How it works

• a short overview of the memorial rooms and the story of Lobachevsky;

The Institute of Physics of Kazan Federal University is heir to the Kazan school of magnetic resonance. It runs tours for organised school groups in its high-rise building at 16A Kremlyovskaya Street.

Formats (per the institute website)

• Lab tour — 1–1.5 hours: the teaching lab and working research laboratories;
• School experiments show in a fun-physics format — 1.5 hours;
• Extended programme — research and teaching labs plus experiment demonstrations, 1.5–2 hours.

the undergraduate physics practicum and research labs — for example thin-film heterostructure synthesis and analysis, strongly correlated electron systems, and "Quantum simulators".