Shorsels

Shorsels.

Shorshely village is the birthplace of the third cosmonaut Andrian Nikolaev.

"Museum of Cosmonautics" on the example of the life of Andrian Nikolaev and his wife Valentina Tereshkova will introduce you to the life of a man in space, plunged into the unknown, during the first flights. Nearby, in the park you can get acquainted with the autobiographies of all astronauts. In the home of the Nikolaevs you will learn how they lived in the Chuvash village of the middle of the twentieth century. There are delicious gingerbreads behind the museum. On the other side of the river Civil, you can drink the Living water, plunge into the fonts of the holy spring.

Not far from Shorshel, in the Mariinsky Posad from the Sovereign Mountain, where the locals met Empress Catherine and crossed the Volga Pugachev and Stenka Razin, you can admire the magnificent view of the great Russian river and see in the work of the wind generator.

The city of Mariinsky Posad - mentions of it refer to 1620 as the village of Sundyr. June 18, 1856 by Decree of Emperor Alexander II in honor of his wife was renamed the city of Mariinsky Posad.

“Sovereign Mountain” is named so, in honor of the visit of Catherine the Great, charmed by beautiful views of the Volga landscapes.

Excursion by car to the village Shorshely "cosmonautics museum" and a tour of the Mariinsky Posad.

Tickets to museums are paid separately. In addition, you can visit the FOC-Physical Center-pool, sauna, simulators or make a picnic with chartan and tea on the Volga or at the spring.

A tour of your car will be cheaper.