Shorshely

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.

The village was the birthplace of early Soviet cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev. It has a museum of Space exploration, and is the site of his interment.

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