to see the fun and beauty, and historical significance of the place is enough in the weekend to sit in the car and drive away from the city for a couple of hundred kilometers. Or go to Chuvashia, but only after the lifting of stringent restrictions due to the coronavirus.
City of Mariinsky Posad. Sovereign hill was named in honor of the visit of Catherine the great, who was charmed by the beautiful views of the Volga landscapes. This occurred in 1763, when on the way to Kazan, the Empress visited Sundyr’. In her honor, the local nobility arranged for lunch on the mountain, which then was called the Sovereign.
At the foot of the mountains there are many springs with healing water. This is one of the main attractions of the city of Mariinsky Posad and a favorite place of citizens: Zavolzhskiy the coast from here, at a glance. In 1768 there was founded the Catherine of oak trees, still surviving.
Located state mountain in the Eastern part of the Mariinsky Posad. From Cheboksary we need to get to it, and from there across the street Kalinin for another 2.5 kilometers. From Kazan to drive on highway M7 to turn on Mariinskiy Posad.
Distance from major cities:
Cheboksary – 52,1 km (journey time: 1 hour 2 minutes).
Kazan is 155 km (journey time: 2 hours 55 minutes).
Ulyanovsk – 247 km (journey time: 3 hours 14 minutes).
City of Kozlovka. Five kilometers away is the village of Novoromanovka. Hence, with high banks, which the people called “Bird flight”, open vistas. This is one of the highest points from the level of the river Volga in the Chuvash Republic (more than 87 meters). Insanely beautiful place!
spread the Bottom of the old riverbed of the Volga river and the mouth of the river Anish, forming several Islands, the meadows and the so-called Kazan Zaton. The locals celebrate here the wedding, and calls, and recent calls.
the Cape in the village of Novoromanovka, five kilometers from the city of Kozlovka. If you go by car from Cheboksary on the highway M7, the main thing – not to miss the turn to Karachev. The road is asphalted up to the village. Here there is a spring.
Kazan also need to get to the town of Kozlovka, and from there 11 miles to the Cape.
Distance from major cities:
Cheboksary – 86.8 km away (journey time: 1 hour 20 minutes).
Kazan – 91,3 km (journey time: 1 hour 29 minutes).
Ulyanovsk – 243 km (journey time: 3 hours 17 minutes).
the Village Shemursha. National Park “Chavash Varmane” – a unique natural complex, which is the focus of a wide variety of monuments of nature from natural to historical. Eco-tourism is one of the leading activities of the national Park.
For tourists developed eight walking tour routes with a total length of 93 kilometers, allowing the greatest degree to enjoy the beauty of nature. Routes equipped with information stands, allowing new ways to see and understand the world around us. Hut on photos from this Park.
the national Park is 17 kilometers from the village of Shemursha. Access by car up to him on the road * A151 in the left direction.
If you go by rail, you must first train station “Kanash”, and then also 75 kilometers on the highway in the direction of Ulyanovsk.
Distance from major cities:
Cheboksary is 166 km away (journey time: 2 hours 28 minutes).
Kazan is 211 km. (travel time: 3 hours 11 minutes).
Ulyanovsk – 106 km. (travel time: 1 hour 42 minutes).
City of Alatyr. Holy Trinity Alatyr monastery, according to legend, was founded in the XVI century by order of Tsar Ivan IV and built by alatyrsky Posad and the Sovereign’s Treasury.
Before the revolution, the monastery was a real spiritual centre of the region. But in 1929 it was closed, and monks were shot. In the monastery up to the war was a prison of the NKVD. Subsequently, when restoring the temples here were found about 300 human remains. The monastery is famous Klyuchevskaya miraculous Kazan icon of the Mother of God and the wonders from the tomb of alatyrskaya ascetic, schema-monk Vassian.
Over the years, the monastery has been restored and rebuilt, seven temples and one of the largest bells in Russia. Its height from ground level to the base of the cross is 81.6 meters. The size of the bell allows you to see the steeple and hear the chime, from which stands out the sound 18-ton bell in almost any location of the ancient city.
by the Way, in addition to monastery in Alatyr has something else to visit. Here is preserved the streets with merchant houses in the classical style.
Holy Trinity Alatyr monastery located in the town of Alatyr in the street of the Trinity, 22. By rail from kanasha on the commuter train takes you to the train station, Alatyr. By car – on the way Cheboksary-Fryazino.
Distance from major cities:
Cheboksary – 196 km (journey time: 2 hours 42 minutes);
Kazan is 268 km (journey time: 3 hours 52 minutes);
Ulyanovsk – 173 km (journey time: 2 hours 30 minutes).
Village Wet. Reinforced concrete design amazes with its monumentality. Length of the arch bridge is 400 meters, width four, and height spans 20 metres. Such bridges in Russia not so much.
moreover, by the time of the completion of mokrinskiy bridge was considered the second largest in Europe, with concrete construction. There are several versions of its origin. According to one, it was built between 1914 and 1918 under the leadership of German engineer Gehard Schumacher.
Another story connected with the name of a Russian engineer Grigory Petrovich Perederiy. According to this version, the bridge was built according to his design in 1913 – 1917 at the same time with the part of the railway Arzamas – Shahrani connecting Moscow and Kazan.
in 1935 the bridge was guarded by the military, at night time people were forbidden to walk under it. During the war the bridge was followed by trains with ammunition and production equipment. Legend has it that he tried to bomb the German air force, but was unable to find it, if the bombs fell close by. By the way, after his recovery was attended by German prisoners of war.
In 1969 there was last renovated in 1986, it was closed and the track dismantled. Under the bridge there is a spring and a plunge pool. Now it is a favorite place of rope-jumpers.
the bridge is Located in the village Wet Kanashsky district of the Chuvash Republic. From Cheboksary and Kazan will need to get to Kanash. Further – in the direction of the village Ibresi. Then on the way Chagasi turn right and go along the asphalt up to the village of Mokra.
Distance from major cities:
Cheboksary is 92.6 km (journey time: 1 hour 26 minutes).
Kazan is 165 km (journey time: 2 hours 22 minutes).
Ulyanovsk – 175km (travel time: 2 hours 24 minutes).
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