The Project «Literary and Memoir Style Kazan» in the Context of the Tourist Industry of the Republic of Tatarstan

The study examines the current state of the tourism industry of the Republic of Tatarstan, analyzes the range of tourist services offered by local travel agencies. As an extension of their assortment, they offer the project of the tourist and excursion route “Kazan literary and memoir”. The work used various methods of scientific research. Among them is the historical-systemic method, which allowed to reconstruct the Kazan history of the following period: from the 80-ies of the XIXth century to the 20-30-ies of the XXth century, the hermeneutical method, with which it became possible to study and understand the meaning of literary works and texts of memoir content. In the process of this project development, they used the literary works, diaries, memoirs, letters and autobiographies by F.I. Chaliapin, M. Gorky, G. Tukai, A.M. Rodchenko, and the memoirs by Z. Mavlyudova. After the analysis, the authors come to the conclusion that currently the tourism industry of Kazan feels the need to develop new thematic excursions that would be distinguished by an original selection of objects for display.