Kazan

Ka·zan  (k-zn, -zän)

A city of west-central Russia on the Volga River east of Moscow. Founded in 1401, the modern city became the capital of a powerful Tartar khanate in 1455 but was conquered by Czar Ivan IV in 1552. In the 18th century it was an outpost of Russian colonization to the east. Population: 1,110,000.

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Kazan, Elia 1909-2003.

Turkish-born American stage and film director whose credits include Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and the movies On the Waterfront (1954) and East of Eden (1955).

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Kazan - United States stage and screen director (born in Turkey) and believer in method acting (1909-2003) Elia Kazan, Elia Kazanjoglous
	2.	Kazan - an industrial city in the European part of Russia Russian Federation, Russia - a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state