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.^[1]

The village has a museum of Space exploration, and is the site of the interment of^[2] a local resident.^[3]^[4]^[5]

References[edit]

^ Shorshely.
^ Colin Burgess, Rex Hall The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies (Springer Science & Business Media,2009).page 346.
^ Mickai Yuhma, The boy from Shorshely Biography of soviet astronaut A.Nikolaev (Cosmos, 1975).
^ Francis French, Colin Burgess, Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 (U of Nebraska Press,2009) p194.
^ Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev at Encyclopædia Britannica.

56°00′N 47°35′E / 56.000°N 47.583°E / 56.000; 47.583

[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.

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v t e Administrative divisions of Chuvashia
Capital: Cheboksary • Rural localities
	Districts	Alatyrsky Alikovsky Batyrevsky Cheboksarsky Ibresinsky Kanashsky Komsomolsky Kozlovsky Krasnoarmeysky Krasnochetaysky Mariinsko-Posadsky Morgaushsky Poretsky Shemurshinsky Shumerlinsky Tsivilsky Urmarsky Vurnarsky Yadrinsky Yalchiksky Yantikovsky
	Cities and towns	Alatyr Cheboksary Kanash Kozlovka Mariinsky Posad Novocheboksarsk Shumerlya Tsivilsk Yadrin
	Urban-type settlements	Ibresi Kugesi Novye Lapsary Sosnovka Urmary Vurnary