The ceremony of laying flowers to the monument of great Tatar poet Gabdulla Tukai has been held in Kazan today, on his birthday. The event took place in the Square of Gabdulla Tukai. President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, speaker of State Council Farid Mukhametshin, Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, members of creative unions of republic, laureates of RT State award named after Gabdulla Tukai, officials of creative intelligentsia and public organizations, students and teachers of educational cultural and art institutions came to honor the memory of great poet.