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]

Shorshely Square

References

  1. ↑ Shorshely.
  2. ↑ Colin Burgess, Rex Hall The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies (Springer Science & Business Media,2009).page 346.
  3. ↑ Mickai Yuhma, The boy from Shorshely Biography of soviet astronaut A.Nikolaev (Cosmos, 1975).
  4. ↑ Francis French, Colin Burgess, Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 (U of Nebraska Press,2009) p194.
  5. ↑ Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev at Encyclopædia Britannica.

56°00′N 47°35′E / 56.000°N 47.583°E / 56.000; 47.583

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