Kazan to put up memorial plaques for writer Fatikh Amirkhan and Tatar music pioneer Fakhri Mannapov

Kazan plans to put up memorial plaques for two prominent figures of Tatar culture. The first is for the outstanding Tatar writer Fatikh Amirkhan: it will be placed at 12 Zhukovsky Street and will begin with the words "Here lived...".

The second plaque honours Fakhri Mannapov, one of the founders of Tatar musical culture, an actor and singer. It will mark the building at 13 Gorky Street, where he worked from 1929 to 1951.

The Tatarstan Ministry of Culture prepared both projects. The draft resolutions of the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers are still under anti-corruption review, so the plaques have not been installed yet. The Kazan municipality has been advised to name an entity that will hold the plaques on its balance sheet.