Kekin House, Federal cultural heritage site near Gorky Street, Kazan, Russia.

Kekin House is a building in central Kazan that combines eclectic, Art Nouveau, and Gothic Revival elements. Its ornate decorations and upward-reaching lines create a distinctive architectural profile on the street.

Kekin House was built between 1903 and 1905 for the millionaire merchant Leonty Kekin, who already owned several buildings in Kazan. It was the last project of architect Heinrich Rush (1855-1905). Run as a rental building, it housed from 1910 to 1914 a private gymnasium, a library, a printing house and shops. After 1998 it stood unused and decaying until a 2005 restoration kept the exterior and added an underground garage.

From 1910 to 1914 the building housed V. I. Ryakhina's private gymnasium, the gymnasium of the Pedagogical Society for the Spread of Education, N. A. Benevskaia's preparatory school, the library of S. Ya. Palchinskaia, L. F. Gross's printing house, P. V. Shatalov's stationery and book shop, A. V. Afanasyev's wine and grocery trade and M. R. Tukhratullin's needle and haberdashery shop.

Kekin House stands at 8/9 Gorky Street in central Kazan, a corner address where Gorky meets another street. The 2005 restoration added modern infrastructure, including an underground garage, and the building is now used for shops and offices. Visitors can look at the facade from the street; the interior is not a museum.

The building was the final project of architect Heinrich Rush, who died in 1905, the year construction ended. Commissioned by millionaire merchant Leonty Kekin, it was built as a rental house and from 1910 to 1914 housed a private gymnasium, a library, a printing house and shops.