Memorial complex of pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR A.G. Nikolaev

The Museum of Cosmonautics in the village of Shorshely of the Chuvash Republic is unique and unique in its kind. The museum, created on December 14, 1972 in the small homeland of the third Soviet cosmonaut, today is the Memorial Complex of the USSR cosmonaut pilot A.G. Nikolaev, which includes: the Museum of Cosmonautics, the House-Museum of the Nikolaev family, the tomb at the burial site of the Cosmonaut-3, the bronze bust of twice Hero of the Soviet Union A.G. Nikolaev, the garden-park named after A.G. Nikolaev, in which the exposition "Piloted cosmonautics in persons" is located. There are two alleys on the territory - the Alley of Cosmonauts and the Alley of Honored Guests.

The Cosmonautics Museum has five halls: “Childhood and youth of A.G. Nikolaev”, “Space is a road without end”, “The name of Andriyan on his native land”, “Astronomy class”, “Transformation of Tsiolkovsky’s ideas into life”. Among the 6,000 exhibits, there are many unique ones - the Sokol spacesuits for start and descent, one of the first spacesuits for spacewalk "Yastreb", the cosmonaut's lodgement, personal belongings of cosmonauts A.G. Nikolaev and N.M. Budarin, the ZIS-110 car of 1950, on which the famous countryman was met in 1962 by the residents of Chuvashia; the descent vehicles of two spacecraft - "Vostok" and "Soyuz-TMA".

The museum has a digital mobile planetarium. The museum organizes stationary, temporary and mobile exhibitions dedicated to significant space dates and events, anniversaries of cosmonauts; fruitfully engaged in scientific and educational work.