The Bolgar State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve is the managing organization of the Bolgar Historical and Archaeological Complex, a World Heritage site, representing the most northern architectural and archaeological remains of the 10th-15th centuries of the Volga Bulgaria and the Golden Horde and bearing the testimony of the cultures of these disappeared civilizations.

The Bolgar Historical and Archaeological Complex:

* has exceptional archaeological and architectural heritage as well as rich cultural landscape, which provide the evidence of the existence of cultural diversity over a large span of time in Bolgar

* has outstanding religious significance as the place of the adoption of Islam by the Volga Bulgaria

* is a pilgrimage place for the Tatar Muslims since the 16th century

*contains the remains of the Medieval city of Bolgar, the first capital of the Golden Horde (under the rule of Batu Khan in the 13th century) and the first mint house of the Golden Horde (under the rule of Berke in 1250-s)

* is a famous heritage site associated with the works of the outstanding artists, writers and historic figures: Kul-Gali, Batu Khan, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Derzhavin, Pallas, Pushkin, Berezin, Mardzhani, Chernetsov brothers, Shishkin, Savrasov and Tukay

* is one of the heritage sites in Russia that received state protection as early as the 18th century.

  The Bolgar Historical and Archaeological Complex was inscribed to the World Heritage List in 2014.