Shorshely
Shorshely (Russian: Шоршелы; Chuvash: Шуршăл, Şurşăl) is a town in Chuvashia, Russia. It is situated between Anatkasy and Yerdovo, and nearby to Atlashevo and Yel’nikovo. It is on the Volga River.[1]
The village has a museum of Space exploration, and is the site of the interment of[2] a local resident.[3][4][5]
References
- ^ Shorshely.
- ^ Colin Burgess, Rex Hall The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies (Springer Science & Business Media,2009).page 346.
- ^ Mickai Yuhma, The boy from Shorshely Biography of soviet astronaut A.Nikolaev (Cosmos, 1975).
- ^ Francis French, Colin Burgess, Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 (U of Nebraska Press,2009) p194.
- ^ Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev at Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Administrative divisions of Chuvashia
Capital: Cheboksary • Rural localities
- Alatyrsky
- Alikovsky
- Batyrevsky
- Cheboksarsky
- Ibresinsky
- Kanashsky
- Komsomolsky
- Kozlovsky
- Krasnoarmeysky
- Krasnochetaysky
- Mariinsko-Posadsky
- Morgaushsky
- Poretsky
- Shemurshinsky
- Shumerlinsky
- Tsivilsky
- Urmarsky
- Vurnarsky
- Yadrinsky
- Yalchiksky
- Yantikovsky
56°00′N 47°35′E / 56.000°N 47.583°E / 56.000; 47.583