Claim: Russian contains the urban center Kazan.
Evidence: 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.
Kazan -LRB- -LSB- Каза́нь , p = kɐˈzanʲ -RSB- Казан , Qazan -RRB- is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan , Russia.
With a population of 1,216,965 , it is the eighth most populous city in Russia.