Skver Gabully Tukaya (Ğabdulla Tuqay Gardens) just off Ploschad Tukaya (Tuqay Square) unsurprisingly features a statue of Ğabdulla Tuqay (also transliterated as Gabdulla Tukai) who is one of the most famous Tatar poets and is credited with being the founder of modern Tatar literature. Tuqay was born in the Kazan Governorate in 1886 and died in Kazan just before his 27th birthday in 1913. Tuqay is buried in the Tatarskoe Cemetery in the south of Kazan.