Alexandrovsky Passage, Kazan, Shopping arcade in Kazan, Russia

Alexandrovsky Passage is a shopping building featuring classical Russian design elements situated on Kremlyovskaya Street in Kazan. The interior displays ornate ceilings and columns connecting multiple shops and cafes, while residential spaces occupy the upper floors above the commercial level.

Merchant Aleksandr Aleksandrov announced a competition in January 1880 to build a passage in Kazan; the winning design was by Vladimir Suslov and Nikolay Pozdeyev, graduates of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. Because the winners could not leave St. Petersburg, the building was erected in 1880–1883 by architect Genrikh Rush. After Aleksandrov's death it passed to his sister Olga Geyns, who gave it to the city for a museum; unsuitable for that purpose, it was divided into furnished rooms and shops.

The building is named after merchant Aleksandr Aleksandrov, who commissioned it. His sister Olga Geyns inherited it and gave it to the city for a museum, but it proved unsuitable and was divided into furnished rooms and shops. Inside, look for the bronze lamp shaped as a woman holding a child's hand.

The building is centrally located on Kremlyovskaya Street in Kazan and is easily accessible on foot. The spaces are reachable by public transportation, and visitors can explore the interior during daytime hours when shops and cafes are open.

The passage originally filled an entire block bounded by Voskresenskaya, Petropavlovskaya, Pochtamtskaya and Chernoyozersky Boulevard (now Kremlyovskaya, Musy Dzhalilya, Lobachevskogo and Dzerzhinskogo). Its corner section at Voskresenskaya and Pochtamtskaya was later lost, and the Chernoyarovsky Passage was built on that spot.