The newspaper «Vechernyaya Kazan» as a historical source on urban space transformation in the early 1990s

This article explores the socio-political city newspaper «Vechernyaya Kazan» (‘Evening Kazan’) as a significant and informative source on the history of the transformation of post-Soviet Kazan space in the early 1990s. Based on the newspaper «Vechernyaya Kazan» materials in the early 1990s, the main directions of the urban landscape transformations and the development of the urban environment of Kazan have been identified. The analysis of newspaper publications shows the formation of a new urban multiethnic and multi-confessional space of the post-Soviet city. It remains relevant to identify the main factors of the transformation of urban space and the interaction of various urban systems in Kazan in the context of the socio-political coup in Russia at the end of the 20th century. The article reveals the role of the newspaper «Vechernyaya Kazan» in actualizing transformative processes through interactive publications among a wide reader audience, its active position in organizing readers for direct participation in the improvement of the urban environment. «Vechernyaya Kazan» paid great attention to public initiatives, which makes it possible to characterize the historical context of the mentioned period, everyday life and leisure, behavioral practices of citizens and the socio-cultural space of the city of thementionedperiod, as well as to identify the reaction of public opinion to the creation of a new image of the post-Soviet city.