Shorshely

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Shorshely ({{langx|ru|Шоршелы}}; {{langx|cv|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.[http://mapcarta.com/13333174 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.Colin Burgess, Rex Hall The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies (Springer Science & Business Media,2009).[https://books.google.com/books?id=rrdVPtCNL9AC&dq=Shorshely&pg=PA346 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) [https://books.google.com/books?id=_8l3y1l2daoC&dq=Shorshely&pg=PA174 p194].[http://www.britannica.com/biography/Andriyan-Grigoryevich-Nikolayev Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev] at Encyclopædia Britannica.

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