Excursion to the village Shiryaevo
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Excursion to the village Shiryaevo
Shiryaevo village
Shiryaevo village of Samara region near the city of Zhigulevsk. The name of the village comes from the words “shira”, “broad”, since the village is located on the territory of Samara Luka on the right bank of the Volga River in the Shiryaev Buerak valley (ravine). Shiryaevsky ravine is the largest in the Samara region, its length is 35 km. The village is famous for the fact that the artist Ilya Repin lived and worked in it in 1870. In the village of Shiryaevo in the house where Repin lived, a museum complex was formed. It also includes the estate of merchant Vdovin and the house of the writer Alexander Shiryaevets. Sights of the village: the museum of the artist I. Repin, abandoned galleries, an observation deck on Popovaya Hill.