A monument to Musa Dzhalil Tatar poet and patriot, is located at the main entrance to the Kazan Kremlin, near the Spasskaya tower. The sculpture was installed in 1966. The authors of the monument are sculptor V. E. Tsigal and architect L. G. Golubovsky.

The monument is a complex consisting of a granite platform trapezoidal shape, raised above ground level, the sculpture of the poet and granite walls. From Millennium square to the monument rises a granite staircase. In the center of the composition is a flower garden, and near it are the benches made of polished granite stone. On bronze monument facsimile signature of the poet. On a granite wall stylized images of swallows and quotes from poems Jalil. One of the strings is particularly known for: "my Life's song rang in the people, Death is my fight song will sound".

Jalil (Salelow) Musa Astapovich born February 2, 1906, and executed in plötzensee 25.08.1944 G. In 1956 he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously).

In 1914 -1919, the poet studied at the Kazan madrasah, in 1919 -1924 in Orenburg in the Tatar Institute of education. In 1925 – 1927 Musa worked as an instructor of district committees of the Komsomol. From 1927 to 1931 he studied in Moscow University and works in children's magazines published in his native Tatar language. In 1933 Musa, head of the literature Department in the newspaper "Communist". In 1935, he worked as head of the literary part of the Tatar Opera Studio, which was located in Moscow. Already in these years began to leave his books in the Tatar language. He writes popular lyrics and ballads. He is the author of the libretto Altynchech, which in 1948 was awarded the State prize of the USSR.

From 1931 to 1941 Musa is the responsible Secretary of the Union of writers of Tatarstan. In 1941 he was called to the front as a correspondent for the second shock army, which was called "Courage". In 1942 he was severely wounded and taken prisoner. Went through concentration camps in the Baltic States, Poland and Germany. In German captivity, he organized a group of Tatar prisoners of war who conducted subversive activities against the Nazis. In the camps and in the Moabit prison in Berlin, he continued to write poetry. August 25, 1944, he, along with fellow underground was executed. It happened in Nazi plötzensee.

Miraculously, through Belgium and France, reached his two notebooks of poems, written in captivity. They had 93 of the poem. Notebook called "Moabit". For this cycle of poems by Musa Jalil in 1957 was awarded the Lenin prize.