Russian contains the urban center Kazan.
Russia 's capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world ; other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan .	Moscow	Moscow	urban centers	List of cities and towns in Russia by population	Saint Petersburg	Saint Petersburg	Novosibirsk	Novosibirsk	Yekaterinburg	Yekaterinburg	Nizhny Novgorod	Nizhny Novgorod	Kazan	Kazan
Kazan -LRB- -LSB-  , p = kzan -RSB-  , Qazan -RRB- is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan , Russia .	Republic of Tatarstan	Republic of Tatarstan	capital	capital city	city	types of inhabited localities in Russia	Russia	Russia
With a population of 1,216,965 , it is the eighth most populous city in Russia .	city	types of inhabited localities in Russia	Russia	Russia	eighth most populous	list of cities and towns in Russia by population
