Aviation area (Kazan)

According to archaeological finds, the areas in the district were inhabited during the Stone Age , and the first known settlements from the Middle Ages were Russian villages , then villages , then urban settlements and Karavaevo microdistricts and the Dry River . During the Peasant War of 1773-1775, after the first battle for Kazan, in these villages there was a camp of the troops of Yemelyan Pugachev .

In the 1930s industrialization of the village of Karavaevo then began the construction of a large aviation industry center, Kazmashstroy, which included Aviation Plant No. 124 (later Plant No. 22, Kazan Aviation Production Association, Kazan Aviation Plant) and Aviation Engine Plant No. 16 (later Kazan Motor-Building Production Plant). union) . For close living, everyday life and leisure of their workers, barracks in Karavaevo and individual residential houses, the so-called barracks, appeared first in a place free from the settlements. the private sector in the village of Sverdlov , and then a multi-storey residential array-microdistrict Sotsgorod on a comprehensive single plan.

In 1935, the territory of the factories, Sotsgorod and other neighboring villages was included in the city limits, then as part of the Leninsky district, which was established in 1934 by separating its eastern part from Proletarsky (now Kirovsky) district .

During and after the Great Patriotic War , the future general designer of the USSR rocket and space industry lived in the area (in Sotsgorod), S. P. Korolev (in 1944 - 1946 , due to the work of prison type at the OKB-16 since 1942 at plant No. 16 ), the rocket engine and also future general designer of rocket and space technology V. P. Glushko , chief designer of aviation technology V. M. Petlyakov , and also (in the Dry River) there was a prison of German prisoners of war involved in the construction of Sotsgorod and other various objects in the city.

In the 1940s - 1950s (and later), urban settlements Severny , Novoy Karavaevo and others arose in neighboring desert areas, where land plots for the construction of individual houses for evacuated immigrants and workers of the aircraft industry factories, as well as the Kazanorgsintez factories located nearby, were allocated " Tatkhimpharmpreparaty ", Helicopter . Later, high-rise neighborhoods appeared in the Karavaevo and New Karavaevo microdistricts, and in the 21st century , the modern “sociotic town” in the latter.

Actually Aviastroitelny district was formed in 1994 by the division of the former Leninsky district from its northern part. Since the end of 2010, the administrations of Aviastroitelny and Novo-Savinovsky districts have been united (on the basis of the administration of Novo-Savinovsky district).

Five enterprises of the aviation industry are concentrated in the region: the aircraft- building Kazan Aviation Plant (KAZ), previously the Kazan Aviation Production Association named after S. P. Gorbunov (KAPO) , the Kazan Helicopter Factory (Kazan Helicopters, KVZ) , the aircraft engine-building Kazan Kazan Motor-Building Production Association (KMPO) , the enterprise of unmanned aerial vehicles “Scientific and Production Association“ Sokol ”named after M. P. Simonov” m ", and is the airport experimental aircraft" Borisoglebsk " when Kase.

In view of the integral architectural and historical image with the Stalinist architecture of residential, leisure, social and infrastructure facilities, the Sotsgorod microdistrict of the Soviet integrated development is attributed by local authorities to the protected zones of the republican register of cultural heritage objects . The neighborhoods of the Karavaevo and Novoya Karavaevo microdistricts, including the modern “socio-urban settlement”, have later and modern multi-storey buildings up to 16-18 floors high.

Since 2013, the Aviastroitelnaya station has been operating in the district, the terminus of the Central Line of the Kazan Metro and located in the Sotsgorod microdistrict along Kopylova Street between Pobezhimova and Belinsky streets. Trolleybus depot No. 1 is located in the district, serving trolleybus transportation in most parts of Kazan, and until 2011 there was a Tram depot No. 2 serving tram transportation in the northern and central part of the city.

In the district there are the Rubin stadium (for 10 thousand spectators, a training home arena with the sports base of the football club Rubin , a Universiade-2013 facility), a large park Krylya Sovetov of urban importance, the administration of the Kazan and Tatarstan Diocese of the ROC, one of the largest in Russia CYSS FC Rubin FC, Kazan Aviation Technical College named after P. V. Dementyev , UNESCO Associated School , School No. 36 with in-depth study of the German language

According to the master plan for the development of the city, in addition to consolidating the development and renovation of the existing microdistricts and settlements with little value private development, in the area on the newly unused territories (in 1998–2004) unused territories, development of the industrial zone is planned (due to enterprises transferred from the central parts of the city) west of Kazanorgsintez and the construction of a new “bedroom” area of ​​a mass high-rise building Bobylsky north of the residential area and west of the village of Severny. Also a private project is being considered for the construction of a new housing estate, Radiant at the Bypass Road to the west of Shcherbakovo village.

• Aircraft area on the official portal of the Kazan City Hall
• Panorama of the Aviation Area