Just after the arrival to Kazan, Tuqay stayed at "Bolğar" hotel and met Tatar literature intelligentsia, such as playwright and "Yoldız" newspaper secretary Ğäliäsğar Kamal and prominent Tatar poet and "Tañ yoldızı" newspaper chief editor Säğit Rämiev. Several days after he left Kazan to be examined by a draft board, assembly point being in Ätnä village. There he was discarded due his poor health and walleye and freed up of serving in the Russian Imperial Army. He returned to Kazan and renowned his literature and publishing activity.