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]

Shorshely.

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[2].[3][4][5]

Shorshely Square

References

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  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