Kazan streets: why brothers Kasimovs, Petryaevs, Battalovs are famous

The Privolzhsky district of the city has three streets named after the heroic brothers.

(KZN.RU, April 11). The day of the brother and sister was celebrated in many countries and cities of the world yesterday. There are a number of streets in Kazan named after two brothers.

One of them is the street of the Privolzhsky district named in 1970 in honor of Galiulla Kasimov and Samigulla Kasimov, participants of the Civil War, Soviet state and party leaders. The fate of both brothers is closely linked with Kazan.

Galiulla Kasimov defended the center of Kazan from the White Czechs in 1918 at the head of the working squad. He joined the first government of the TASSR as a commissioner of the Workers 'and Peasants' Inspectorate, and in 1920, became a member of the committee of the Tatar Emergency Commission. Samigulla Kasimov also had active political life. In 1925, he was appointed Commissioner of the United Tatar-Bashkir Military School in Kazan, served as Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the TASSR, the director of the Kazan Energy Institute, Chairman of the Central Council of Osoaviakhim, and worked at the Tatar Agricultural Bank.

The length of the Bratiev Kasimovyh Street is 2.43 km. From the very beginning, only its southern side was built, while the wastelands and the Gorkinsky forest adjoined it on the northern side. The typical five-storey Khrushchevka and nine-storey houses, as well as schools and dormitory buildings, were erected on the street first.

Another street in the Privolzhsky district is named after the Petryaev brothers. They were born and raised in a working-class family in the Pleteni, a suburb of Kazan. After graduating from the third class of the parish school, the brothers arranged as ancillary workers at the Krestovnikov Soap Factory, where their father worked for many years. At that time, a party group was formed there. The Petryaev brothers were among those who became close to the Bolsheviks and were part of the group’s assets. They participated in several strikes and other mass demonstrations under Bolshevik slogans, and took part in the battles.

Both brothers died heroically in 1918, defending Kazan from the White Czechs. The death of the Red Guard workers Konstantin and Georgy Petryaevs is reflected in the Museum of Labor and Military Glory of the M. Vakhitov Chemical Combine, and Bolshaya Nikolayevskaya Street was named after the Petryaev brothers.

In 2015, one of the streets of the residential complex “M-14” of the Privolzhsky district received the name of the Battalov brothers. The name immortalizes Salikhzyan Battalov and Abdullah Battalov.

Salihzyan Battalov is a prose writer, poet and playwright who left a significant mark in Tatar literature. The village, about which he wrote numerous lyrical poems, ballads, and poems, became a prominent theme in the writer's work. He first introduced the theme of the heroic flight romance to Tatar literature. Professional literary activity of S. Batallov was interrupted by the Great Patriotic War. He served in units of the Pacific Fleet Air Force, fought against the troops of Japan. His military merits are marked with orders and medals.

Abdullah Battalov is known as a member of the underground organization of the Volga-Tatar Legion “Idel-Ural”. He was one of Musa Jalil’s comrades in the underground struggle in fascist captivity during the war years. The group was exposed. And on August 25, 1944, A. Battalov was executed along with ten comrades in the group. A. Battalov was posthumously awarded the orders of the Great Patriotic War I degree.