Educational tours

Kazan State Power Engineering University shows guests its hands-on facilities — training grounds and labs where future power engineers practise on real equipment.

What the tour may include (per the KSPEU website)

• the demonstration hall of the Energy Saving Competence Centre: thermal conductivity stands, a thermosiphon heating rig, an interactive smart-home model;
• the 110/10 kV substation training ground and its control room — a rare chance to see power infrastructure up close;
• partner training centres and labs (Schneider–KSPEU, Danfoss, Electroskills, Bosch and Rehau labs, a municipal heat-supply training ground);
• the engineering centre for computer modelling in power engineering;
• the Museum of Energy Development — the history of Tatarstan's power industry and engineering education in Kazan.

Audience: school pupils from Kazan, Tatarstan and neighbouring regions, applicants and parents, technical college students. The energy-saving centre runs tours specifically for school pupils.

Practical notes

• the set of stops is agreed when booking; the university site has a "Book a tour" button in the "For pupils" section;
• the tour takes place on campus at 51 Krasnoselskaya Street.

Price and dates on request from the organiser.

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.

Kazan National Research Technological University (formerly KKhTI) grew out of the Kazan Industrial School and became one of Russia's centres of chemical engineering education. Its history museum runs the tour "History of KNRTU: from an industrial school to a university" throughout the academic year.

What visitors learn

• key events, dates and names in the history of the university and its research schools;

Nizhnekamskneftekhim (part of SIBUR) is one of Europe's largest petrochemical complexes. Once a year, on the eve of the company's birthday (late July), the plant runs a night tour for employees, residents and visitors of Nizhnekamsk; in 2025 it took place for the fifth time. During the year the company also hosts school and student groups under the Open SIBUR programme.

What you will see

• the historic central gas fractionation unit (TsGFU), where the first products were made in 1967;
• polystyrene production — how pellets for packaging, toys and medical goods are made;
• synthetic isoprene rubber production, where you can touch warm rubber crumb;

The museum complex of KFU's Yelabuga Institute is housed in the historic former Diocesan Women's School. For a popular-science visit, the highlight is the Museum of Archaeology and History of Tatarstan: most of its finds come from the institute's own field expeditions, in which students take part.

What you will see

• Museum of Archaeology and History of Tatarstan — artefacts covering the whole ancient and medieval history of the Kama region; the guide explains how an archaeological expedition works and what scientists learn from finds;
• Museum of the History of the Yelabuga Institute — from the construction of the school building and pupils' records to teaching and research at today's university.

The Tatneft Oil Museum in Leninogorsk opened on 1 October 1968 and is regarded as the first oil museum in the USSR. It stands in the birthplace of Tatarstan's oil industry and tells how the fields that became a major Soviet oil base were searched for, discovered and developed.

What you will see

• original artefacts, rare documents and a chronicle of events — from the first prospecting to the major discoveries;
• the story of oil workers and the industry's growth in the region;
• sections on natural sciences and the basics of oil production technology;
• interactive exhibits for self-guided visitors.

school classes (a good fit for geography and history lessons), petroleum engineering students, families and travellers in south-east Tatarstan. The museum has an open-air branch in Shugurovo on the site of an old oil-bitumen plant.

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".

The museum of the Tupolev Kazan National Research Technical University (KAI) opened in 1982 and holds about 17,000 items. It tells how Kazan became home to one of Russia's leading schools of aeronautical engineering.

What you will see

• the university history exhibition with a corner devoted to its organiser N.G. Chetaev and sections on every faculty, including the country's first university department of jet engines;
• a separate hall devoted to A.N. Tupolev and his colleagues V.M. Petlyakov, A.A. Arkhangelsky, I.F. Nezval and A.A. Tupolev;
• aircraft models and stories of famous alumni aircraft designers;
• a display on KAI staff and students who fought in the Great Patriotic War.

Обзорная прогулка по Иннополису с посещением университетского кампуса и технопарка Попова. Узнайте, как устроена жизнь ИТ-города, где учатся будущие разработчики и как работают роботы-доставщики и сервисы искусственного интеллекта.

экскурсия с гидом, 1 час 30 минут. школьники от 13 лет и студенты, группа до 50 человек.

A career-guidance programme of the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in the Yelabuga district, one of Russia's largest industrial sites. The tour is built around the Alabuga Polytech corporate training centre and shows how modern factories work and which professions they need.

What participants do

Kazanorgsintez (part of SIBUR) is a large petrochemical plant in Kazan and Russia's only producer of polycarbonates. As part of its industrial tourism programme the plant runs open tours, including evening and night formats when the site is lit by thousands of lights.

What you will see

• an overview bus ride across the huge site;
• the finished-goods shop of the polycarbonate plant and the control room;
• the FFS film line at the polyethylene plant;
• the company's environmental projects; visitors handle polycarbonate pellets, while ecologists and process engineers answer questions about the safety of continuous production.