Shiryaevo village and Mount Monastyrskaya, Samara region. Samara region: the village of Shiryaevo and its environs in old photographs
And every time, being there for work or just on vacation, I could not help but be interested in him. richest history. Shiryaevo among all the villages of the Samara region, probably the most famous. Many people have been to these places famous people, in particular, I.E. Repin collected material here for his painting "Barge Haulers on the Volga", the Russian poet Alexander Shiryaevets was born here. There are many attractions, but first things first. I propose to make an excursion into the history of the village, see old and modern photographs with its views.
01. The village of Shiryaevo is almost 400 years old. One of the oldest villages on the Volga, it is located in the largest ravine of the Samarskaya Luka, which stretches deep into the Zhiguli for 35 kilometers.
Everything that the nature of our lands is rich in is collected here - springs, rocks, stony steppes, mixed forests, birch groves, pine forests. 
02. The village was founded by the Samara nobleman Mikhail Filatov (in some sources - Filitov) on the land given to him for his service, although as early as 1628 fugitive peasants settled here.
According to the census in 1647, "67 peasants with families lived in the village, and some of them had workers and people walking in the yard." 
03. In 1767, Catherine II traveled along the Volga. She was accompanied by a favorite - Grigory Grigorievich Orlov and his brother, Vladimir Grigorievich.
The empress presented the village to the favorite, and since 1768 these lands became part of the estate of Count Orlov-Davydov. 
04. The name changed: then the village of Shiryaevo, then the village of Shiryaevskoye, then Bogoyavlenskoye (from the name of the local parish church, now lost).
And Shiryaevo - from the name of the largest Shiryaevsky ravine on the Samarskaya Luka (gully, in the local language), at the mouth of which the village is spread. 
05. Popova Gora, located between the village of Shiryaevo and the village of Bogatyr. The name of the mountain comes from the possessions of the local priest located on the slope.
Here, during excavations in 1923, traces of the Finno-Ugric culture of the Iron Age were found. In the mountain are located Shiryaevsky adits, which have become one of the many attractions of the village.
Below I will tell a little history of their appearance. 
06. It is believed that lime roasting on an industrial scale began around 1859, the work was led by the princes Volkonsky.
In 1897, at the foot of Popova Gora, the first plant appeared - "Shiryaevets", owned by the merchant Makarov from Uralsk and his son-in-law Nazarov from Samara.
On the old photo a huge pipe stands out, they say that people learned from it that they were swimming up to Shiryaev. 
07. On July 1, 1900, the well-known Saratov merchant Georgy Sergeevich Vanyushin acquired the quarry. 
08. In addition to factories, Vanyushin owned arable land, a garden and a windmill in the village. 
09. Before the revolution, the factories produced up to 700 thousand pounds of lime and about 200 thousand pounds of alabaster.
Shiryaev gully becomes a kind of center for the production of rubble and finishing stone.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Vanyushin was awarded a medal at an industrial exhibition in Paris. 
10. Almost the entire population of the village, until the revolution of 1917, worked in various mining in the quarries of the Vanyushin and Ushkov factories. 
11. Only a small part of the Shiryaev people were engaged in agriculture, beekeeping and fishing. 
12. The products of factories went far up and down the Volga. In early spring, on the Volga, near the Shiryaev factories, barges and planks (large flat-bottomed vessels up to 20 meters long) lined up, on which the extracted raw materials were loaded and sent to different points throughout the summer. 
13. In 1955, work stopped and the plant was closed. Today only ruins remind of it. 
14. The entrances to the adits can be seen along the entire perimeter of Popova Gora. There are about 35 of them in total. 
15. Their corridors go deep into many tens of meters. 
16. All adits consist of six non-communicating systems. The largest of them is located closer to the Volga at an altitude of about 40 meters above the river. 
17. There is always silence here, sometimes broken by drops of water falling from the ceiling, and the squeak of bats. If you're lucky, you can see corals, sea lilies and other fossil species in the adits. 
18. The temperature in the adits is stable, about 5-8 degrees C.
In autumn, the mass settlement of bats begins here. They say that bats from all over the European part of Russia winter in Shiryaevo. 
19. The limestones that make up the Zhiguli are the oldest in the Volga region, they are 300 million years old. From this stone book you can learn the whole evolution of the animal world of the Earth. 
20. Popova Gora overlooks the village and Monastyrskaya Gora. 
21. The mountain owes its name to the Savva-Storozhevsky monastery, which existed south of the village and the mountain belonged to the monastery. 
22. A cross is installed on the mountain, with which interesting story.
Retired Colonel V.I. Dalnov from St. Petersburg, a member of the society "For the Return of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God to Russia" had a vision - a CROSS on top of a mountain. The Volga flowed below, and concrete signs of the place where the cross stood were revealed. I saw, for example, an old ruined building, a spring with healing water ... After consulting with the first rector of the Tikhvin Monastery, Father Alexander and monk Stefan, they decided to find this place. 
23. Petersburgers arrived in Samara and began to look for the place that was in the vision. They sailed along the Volga, stopped at the mountains, examined the area.
In Shiryaevo, having climbed the Monastery Hill, Dalnov recognized the place that was in the vision. In 1999, the Cross of Memory and Repentance was installed on the Monastery Hill.
The cross, made by blacksmiths Evgeny and Vladimir Ershovs, Mikhail Petrov, was installed in honor of the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Christ in memory of Vladyka
St. Petersburg and Ladoga Metropolitan John and all those who, not sparing their lives, laid down their lives for Great Russia. 
24. Here are the names and surnames of those who were involved in the establishment of the Cross. 
25. View of the village from Monastery Hill. 
In the next part I will tell you about the stay in the village of I.E. Repin and other artists.
To be continued...
Shiryaevo village. View from Mount Popova.
History Shiryaeva started back in the 17th century. And over the years that have passed since then, the village has been called differently: Shiryaev Buerak, Shiryaevo, Shiryaevka, Shiryaevskoe, and even Epiphany. But the original name, apparently, should be considered Shiryaev Buerak. And this name was born from the expanse that is present here on Volga in Zhiguli mountains, and which at one time struck the creator " Burlakov on the Volga". This is the expanse that can be seen from the surrounding mountains, but also the expanse of the valley in which the village is located. After all Shiryaev Buerak this is the "wide ravine", "wide valley". And we know for sure: no Samarskaya Luka ravine wider and longer than Shiryaevsky ravine.
From its source to its confluence with Volga it stretches 35 kilometers. True, in addition to the latitude of the ravine, the name Shiryai could become the basis for the name of the village. But there are no legends that some hero with that name founded this village in the course of some adventures. Therefore, today we believe that the name of the village was given by the ravine.
For the first time the village is mentioned in the documents of the first Russian king from the genus Romanov Mikhail Fedorovich due to the fact that this Shiryaev Buerak attracted runaway peasants who left both their homes and their landowners in central Russia. So the village was founded under the motto of freedom - freedom from serfdom. Then the village is mentioned in the documents of 1643, 44, 45.
Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov.
BUT Dutch traveler and painter Cornelius de Bruyn visited Shiryaevo (he sailed from Samara) in May 1703 and told about it on the pages of his book:
“At nine o’clock, turning to the south-west, we noticed a plain between high mountains on the right, and then a village lying 20 versts (about 21 kilometers) from Samara. Our people went there for food, and the river in this place was very wide.
It's almost at the very Volga. A haven for an outstanding artist during his stay in Shiryaevo, there was a small log house with three windows. And all three of these windows were facing the river. For a hundred years, the walls of the house have dilapidated, many beams and logs have rotted. But on the other hand, many things of the owners remained in the house: spinning wheels, scales, chests, a carved wooden bed, ladles, old-style clothes, a cradle, a small mirror dressed in a simple frame. All this made it possible to preserve the memory of the time when a masterpiece was created, when the artist lived among all these things, what is called, plunged into the life of the Russian peasantry.
But the merit in the preservation of the house and in the creation of the museum belongs to another person - Anette Bass.
Well, in the museum itself, you will already be waiting for stories about how the evenings were spent on Volga representatives of the creative intelligentsia. The guides will tell you: which of the artists liked to cover the table with lace napkins, who slept on the floor, and who - on an ordinary wooden bench.
In 2007, the museum changed noticeably. Repin's house connected by a backyard to the adjacent "White House", which was nothing less than estate nobles Vdovins. manor erected in 1910. And now it houses halls with an ethnographic exposition, copies of famous (one might even say textbook) works of artists, as well as Ilya Repin who came to Samarskaya Luka. And there were such recognized masters as Ivan Shishkin, Ivan Aivazovsky, Sergey Ivanov, Aristarkh Lentulov. And, of course, Fedor Vasilyev and Evgeny Makarov, who were just visiting Shiryaevo together with Repin. And in two halls personal exhibitions of contemporary artists are held.
It turns out as many as two museums in one village - isn't it a lot? Yes, there are not two of them at all ... But three. After all Shiryaevo was the birthplace of an outstanding poet of the Silver Age Alexandra Abramova. But, to tell the truth, under this name no one knew and does not know him. After all, the poet signed the name Alexander Shiryaevets. Using this pseudonym, the author of the poems was not cunning at all, because he was a Shiryaevite - a native of an old Volga village.
Shiryaevo photographed by Maxim Dmitriev in 1900. In the foreground, under Mount Popova, from which the photograph was taken, is the factory of the merchant Vanyushin.
But the most noticeable trace of the rapid industrial development at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries remained and is easily detected if you take a look at the village, on the slope popova mountain. From almost everywhere from the village and from the pier, entrances to some caves of a solid size are visible. But it's better to call them adits because they are made by human hands. - these are seven complexes, remote from one another at a distance of 100 to 2000 meters. They do not communicate with each other, and each complex has the shape of a neat square. Most adits are a labyrinth up to 300 meters long, consisting of intersecting galleries. The height of the passages is such that, if desired, you can drive along them on double-decker bus. Inside adit The air temperature in both winter and summer is the same: plus 10 degrees.
Hired workers began to create them Vanyushin, and completed the labor army from Sunny Polyana during the Great Patriotic War. But the task of the workers was, of course, not the creation grandiose structures in the mountain, and the booty of Shiryaevsky limestone, which lay quietly here for 300 million years, was not needed by anyone during this time, and then suddenly it was needed.
At the sight of gaping voids on the slope popova mountain, there is an irresistible desire to visit these underground workings. Although it turns out to be dangerous. IN adits crashes happen all the time. And the voids threaten to grow to the top of the mountain. If this happens, the caves will become pits. Popova mountain is already within Zhigulevsky Reserve, the administration of which is taking all possible measures to galleries no one got in: the passages were closed with bars, warning signs were hung about the danger of visiting adit. But in all this there is a certain amount of slyness. Most likely, the safety of tourists has nothing to do with it. And it's all about mice. And it is in bat mice. They live in the forests Samarskaya Luka, settle in the hollows of trees and in the attics of rural houses. But this is in the summer, but for the winter they get together and hibernate. abandoned galleries turned out to be a very suitable place for this very lesson. No wonder the colony of bats on Samarskaya Luka reached such proportions that it is the largest in Europe. So here's to worry mice during this period is highly undesirable. If they are disturbed and awakened, then they do not have enough energy to wake up, calm down and fall asleep again, and they die from exhaustion and cold. Moreover, females are pregnant in winter, the formation of the fetus occurs during winter after autumn mating. Therefore, not only dies mouse, but also her unborn cub.
Mount Camel.
The bowels of the mountain are cut by underground workings. Railroad tracks have been preserved here, along which at the beginning of the last century they pushed wheelbarrows with limestone stone. It is worth climbing to the top of the mountain to see the magnificent panorama of the surroundings and the opposite coast from there. Volga- view of the famous Zhiguli gates" And Falcon Mountains, to the top Tsareva Kurgan at the point of entry into Volga river Sok.
Zhiguli Gates (photo by Nikita Ivanov)
Stone Bowl- a mysterious, enticing name. And in it a spring - a spring Nicholas the Wonderworker. A lot of people go there: ordinary tourists, believing pilgrims, along a dirt road 10 kilometers from Shiryaevo on Shiryaevsky ravine. In a good way, of course, this path must be walked. After all, this is how it is customary to get to holy places. But today, many people can no longer overcome such a distance, and they get there by cars, and even buses. Traveling along a narrow dirt road, on which you have to pass with oncoming cars, does not have the best effect on both travelers and the ecology of these places. 10 kilometers are overcome at best in forty minutes.
But the road itself is fabulous. Two hundred meters north-western slopes of the ravine are covered with a fluffy blanket of pine forest. The eastern slopes are slightly lower in height. Snow-white birch groves spread along them. Oregano and willow-herb grew in the clearings between the trees. It is enough to turn a few steps to the side into some ravine to find yourself among thickets of tall dense grasses in the never-ending twilight of the bottom of the ravine, where the sun's rays only touch the tops of the trees.
The road leads to stone bowl. The tract begins with a platform, there is a sign showing the way to the source, which is also called a spring Nicholas the Wonderworker, and a spring Nicholas the Pleasant, as well as Nikolsky and even Nikolin. And many people know this spring under the same name as the tract - Stone Bowl. From the site to the spring, everyone has to go uphill - the car will not go any further. Here wide Shiryaevsky ravine becomes even wider, the Stone Gully flows into it and with it several more smaller ravines. Soon the valley changes its direction, becomes wider, and as it expands, something similar to a giant cauldron, or a bowl with stone sides, is formed. The traveler is surrounded on all sides high mountains. Above the mountains - only the sky.
A narrow path goes up to the spring. A chute runs along it. Water from a spring flows through it. But only if visitors do not scoop it all out. It may happen that somewhere in the middle of the ascent, as a miracle and a sign of the holiness of the place, a flock of butterflies flutter right from under your feet. They live here permanently - moths with blue wings. With some, known only to him, periods, the moths first rise up, then again sink to the bottom of the ravine.
Spring Nicholas the Wonderworker in the heart Stone Bowl- in the dark well. The well turned out because the spring was surrounded on all sides by mountains, the steep slopes of which were overgrown with a dark forest. Near the spring, a new chapel was built of stone, after unknown people burned the old wooden one in 2000. If a service is going on in the chapel, and the pilgrims will sing an akathist Nikolay Ugodnik, then you will hear the sound of church singing on the way. The sound spreads in a special way, without an echo, in the stone walls, densely covered with forest, there is none. Silence and singing. Through the narrow window of the chapel, you can see candles burning somewhere inside. Here, next to the chapel in a makeshift church shop, you can buy them.
There is a swimming pool nearby. On a fine day, there may be a queue for her. The chapel and the bath are located far from the spring. And you have to fill the bath manually, dragging water in buckets.
The source itself is located above. Water flows from under the rock, completely covered with green moss, into a special gutter at a speed of 4.5 liters per minute. The water is very cold - no more than five degrees. The color of the water shows how pure it is. And pure water gives a particularly pleasant taste. The high quality of water is confirmed by chemical analysis. It indicates that water may not lose its taste properties for a period of six to twenty months. If compared with tap water, then in the spring water Nicholas the Wonderworker one third less chlorine. But there is also a drawback, though the only one. It turns out that there is some ammonia in the spring water. But what to do, because in the depths of the Zhiguli there are lenses with oil. From there, ammonia seeps into groundwater.
Around the spring formed its own situation. Granite stone with a reminder of Nicholas the Wonderworker. A warning posted on a tree:
"Kind people! It is forbidden to speak loudly, smoke, litter, drink alcohol near the holy spring. If you want health for yourself and your loved ones, follow these rules.”
Nearby is a stone bowl.
A fabulous place is surrounded by human culture with its fairy tales and legends. This is an amazing, sometimes incomprehensibly amazing interweaving of cultures that are based on completely different roots. Here is the culture of rampant robber freemen, and paganism, and Christian traditions.
At the spring of Nicholas the Wonderworker. The spring is also called the Stone Bowl, Nikolsky, Nikolin, Nikolai Ugodnik.
And all this is intertwined with each other, dissolved in each other, so that the heroes of different legends, different cultures can easily meet in one legend. So the robber chieftain Sheludyak fell in love with the heroine from the Moksha pagan epic - the mistress of the Zhiguli.
Fedor Sheludyak was in fact a real person, chieftain, colleague of Stepan Razin. And when the latter was arrested in 1671, Sheludyak tried to fight. He organized a campaign against Simbirsk, but failed. He was captured and executed in Astrakhan on June 27, 1672. The legend paints his fate differently.
Sheludyak was surrounded by royal troops Samarskaya Luka. He climbed a rock and rushed down. But he didn't die. The stones parted, and the ataman flew into the belly of the mountain. There, underground, he ended up in the possession of the mistress of the Zhiguli. In that underworld Sheludyak spent many years. But bondage in stone captivity did not at all please his wild robber soul. He began to wither from melancholy and, in the end, died. Since then, the Mistress of the Mountains has no choice but to shed tears over the deceased ataman. They flow into the stone bowl.
Is in culture Stone Bowl and Christian motives. And they are different. One story takes us all the way back to ancient times. When the Tatar invasion began, on the territory Shiryaevo free cultivators already lived, and they were already Christians. They built a church and gave it a name in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. The priest who served in the temple had an assistant - a sexton boy. So both of them served well. But the Tatar conquerors passed through the land, sowing ruin and death. The priest and the novice managed to take everything dear from the temple and go to the mountains. There, on the lost roads, they found a cave and hid liturgical vessels in it. But to their misfortune, they decided to return back. No sooner had they reached the village than the Tatars seized them and began torturing them. The father could not stand the torture - he died, but he did not reveal his secrets to the Tatars. But the boy agreed to take the enemies to the hiding place. Finding a hiding place, the leader of the Tatars grabbed the sacred cup with unclean hands, but wanted to throw it on the ground. But could not. The bowl itself, without any help, slipped out of the hands of the bandit, rose into the sky, and disappeared there.And on the ground where the Tatars stood, a miraculous spring gushed. This story is somewhat similar to the story about a Samara girl who already lived in Soviet times, who turned to stone after she decided to dance with an icon Nicholas the Pleasant.
There is another legend. And it says that when, in an anti-religious impulse in the village, they began to destroy the church, one of the parishioners took the golden cup and buried it somewhere in the forest. Some time has passed. The woman began to look for the cup, but the search did not lead to anything. After many attempts, she saw the appearance of the icon. And in the place where the bowl was buried, a spring gushed.
Do not forget that the spring is dedicated Saint Nicholas. And they say that he walks here somewhere like a short, gray-haired old man in an embroidered shirt and bast shoes, leads lost travelers to a straight path from the forest and from spiritual wanderings. Mushroom pickers then say: I got lost, they say, somehow somewhere near Elgushes. And then, like out of the ground, an old man in a fur coat, with a stick and a knapsack. I told him - how did you get here, grandfather? And he answered me: I know where I am, but you, do you know where you ended up?
Yes, a lot of different things are intertwined, which is connected, one way or another, with stone bowl. Many threads are intricately entangled with each other. There is a lot of good in these plexuses. But cunningly, trying not to be noticed, evil also hid there. And it is already difficult to distinguish one from the other in this confusion. Pilgrims try, sing. Tourists are coming, many do not know why they came here or why they were brought here.
The chant is broken by the sound of buckets, creating the atmosphere of a bazaar. Pilgrims try to sing. Will they have enough strength to atone for other people's sins, to instill reason in people so that they do not destroy the holy source?
In the Samara region, in the beautiful valley of the Shiryaevsky ravine, between the Zhiguli mountains and on the banks of the Volga River, the village of Shiryaevo, the pearl of the Volga region and the main tourist attraction of Samarskaya Luka, is located.
In addition to the car from Samara to Shiryaevo can be reached by bus, which runs once a day. With transfers, you can first get to Tolyatti, transfer to a bus to Zhigulevsk, and from Zhigulevsk already to Shiryaevo (the bus from Zhigulevsk runs several times a day). Also, a boat runs daily from Samara to Shiryaevo. It departs from the river station and makes only one stop at Polyana Frunze (8-30 - 9-30 - 11-00 - River station - Polyana Frunze - Shiryaevo, back 17-00 - 18-15 - 19-00). The schedule is still better to check on the website of the Samara Shipping Company.
Traveling by car from Samara to Shiryaevo causes a number of difficulties: these are traffic jams in the area of the Zhigulevskaya hydroelectric power station and the exit from Samara, the cost of gasoline, as well as possible fines (the Samara-Tolyatti highway is literally stuffed with various speed cameras) and a decent distance of 150 kilometers. Photos and a report on our trips by car to Molodetsky Kurgan and Mount Strelnaya with Mount Camel can be found in the articles: and in the article.
The bus schedule does imply an overnight stay in Shiryaevo.
Motor ship Samara - Shiryaevo.
Based on the foregoing, the boat will be optimal for a walk to Shiryaevo from Samara (we are not going there to work). Here we kill several birds with one stone: for modest money, about 100 rubles per person (one end), we make a pleasant boat trip along the Volga waters, get acquainted with Samara (we sail along the entire city), admire the beauties of the Zhiguli mountains and the Samara Luka, squeeze through the Zhiguli gates, and we also relax, allowing ourselves to pass a glass of some other alcoholic drink(we are still on vacation and not driving).
To travel by boat, it is better to choose a weekday, since a real pilgrimage is made to Shiryaevo on weekends and it is possible to stand all the way, which is two and a half hours. If you want to visit museums in Shiryaevo, and there are three of them, then a trip to Shiryaevo on Tuesday also canceled due to museums are closed. We choose a day from Monday to Friday (except Tuesday), go to the river station, buy a ticket at the box office and now we are sailing on a boat and enjoy the rays of the rising sun.
I will not once again talk about the fact that we will sail. All this has been described by me more than once in articles: I can only say that once again you experience a real buzz from what you see and fresh mountain-river air.
Shiryaevo village, Samara region.
The village of Shiryaevo can be seen from afar.
Surrounded by the Zhiguli mountains: on the left side (when viewed from the water) Monastyrskaya mountain (326 meters),
and with the right mountain Popova (263 meters), Shiryaevo is the most picturesque place on the entire coast of Samarskaya Luka. For almost four centuries (1629 the first mention of the village) it has attracted artists and musicians, creative people, travelers and tourists.
We land on the shore, where gazelles, UAZs and SUVs are waiting for us. For a fee (as you agree), you can go to them both on and in. I advise you to devote a day to these trips, and today, together with me, limit yourself to a walk around Shiryaevo, climbing the mountains surrounding it and visiting museums. Believe me, this will be quite enough for a rich and unforgettable day.
I'll have lunch at beautiful place also need to pay attention. You can have lunch in an inexpensive local cafe near the pier, but it is better to organize a picnic on one of the mountains taken with you from home, and drink hot tea or coffee in the same cafe.
Sights of Shiryaevo.
The first “attraction” of Shiryaevo is located opposite the cafe. This pipe, or rather part of it, is almost all that remains of the factory of the Saratov merchant Vanyushin. It is not difficult to notice that Mount Popov is all indented and consists of tiers. They were formed after active mining of limestone and stone. Their development began in the middle of the 19th century under the leadership of Prince Volkonsky and since then has become the main occupation of the Shiryaevites. Stone from Shiryaevo was used throughout the Samara Province (for reference: Alekseevskaya Square in Samara, today Revolution Square, was paved with this stone in 1865). Many artels were organized for mining and processing, until Vanyushin took over their purchase in 1900. Vanyushin began to briskly develop quarries and build factories, until the revolution of 1917 took away all this economy from him.
We’ll talk more about the history of Mount Popova on the mountain itself, but for now don't forget to buy a ticket to visit it, as well as to visit Monastyrskaya Mountain. Near the pipe there is a small house - a representative office of the Samarskaya Luka reserve. There are two routes for sale here:
1. Stone bowl -50 rubles; 2. Shiryaevsky mountains: Monastyrskaya, Popova, Camel. -50 rubles; as well as booklets; souvenirs and maps of the area.
If you decide not to climb the mountains, then you do not need to buy a ticket for a walk only in the village of Shiryaevo and to visit the museums of the village.
Photo of Shiryaevo.
Having bought a ticket, we went along the Volga in the direction of Mount Monastyrskaya. The photos I took along the way will be more eloquent than my words.
Interesting fact: there is no church in Shiryaevo now. Before the revolution, the only church in the entire district was in Shiryaevo, but with the advent of the Bolsheviks, the building was used as a school, and then completely dismantled into bricks. Now on the site of the church there is a stele of memory of the Great Patriotic War and a memorial to the victims of political repression.
Monastery mountain, Shiryaevo.
I recommend visiting it first of all for the following reasons:
1. Climbing the Monastery Hill is not an easy task. The ascent goes along a narrow dirt path, in some places very steep. Strength in the morning, of course, is much more than in the afternoon.
2. Admiring beautiful views village from the Monastery Mountain, the sun will shine on your back, and not in your face. For getting good photos a very strong argument.
We pass the installed sign, which means that we are on the territory of the Samara Luka Reserve.
Shiryaevo is the oldest village on Samarskaya Luka. Samarskaya Luka is the largest, most pronounced bend of the Volga River.
Now this is a pop, hyped place for mass summer holidays in the Samara region. Many excursions are brought here from Samara and other cities of the Samara region and the middle Volga. You can get there by bus from Tolyatti, by river transport from Samara (in my childhood this journey took 40 minutes on Meteor or Rocket, but all high-speed transport was sawn up or sold to the “oil” rivers of Russia, so now the old Omik is lucky, about 3 hours, maybe of course, something has changed, I did not go to Shiryaevo water transport years 6.)Well, the best way to get there, of course, is by car 75 km from Tolyatti and 150 km from Samara.
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View of the monastery mountain.
I first came to this village in 1979, I was not yet a year old. My mother was born in Shiryaev itself. Since then, I spent all my school summers in this beautiful place!
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View of the Shiryaevsky ravine, it cuts through the Zhiguli for 35 kilometers deep into the Samarskaya Luka.
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View of the Shiryaev adits. Previously, the best grades of lime in Russia were mined here.
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View of the Volga and Popov mountain.
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Beautiful Volga.
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A few more views of the Volga from Monastyrskaya Mountain.
My great-grandfathers were brought to this beautiful place by a hard fate.
Red-bellied subhumans, they decided in 1927-1933. Carry out collectivization. Entire groups of kulaks and middle peasants were brought under the category of dispossessed. In relation to real kulaks, the rudest bullying was allowed. Sometimes those who were dispossessed were subjected to torture, public insults, they were driven out into the street at night with their children, everything was taken away, down to the smallest household items, etc. The property confiscated from the dispossessed was often snatched up by local communists and appropriated.
This is what happened to my maternal great-grandfathers. They were originally from the village of Chesnokovka, Orenburg region. As my grandmother says, my great-grandfather had a large prosperous farm, many cows, bulls, sheep, horses. In 1930, they and most of the village's most hard-working peasants were driven from their places and sent to the city of Inza, Ulyanovsk region, where they were used as hard laborers. In 1939 they were sent to the village of Shiryaevo to build a collective farm.
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Shiryaevo village.
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House-Museum of I.E. Repin.
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My cousin Aramova Lidia Grigorievna (not Abramova). She took an active part in the creation of this museum by I.E. Repin and for many years was its director.
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Erik in the Shiryaevsky gully.
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Erik and galleries.
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During the gasification of the village, the freaks (sorry, but I can’t name them differently) from the leadership of the Zhiguli district and the Samara region, spoiled the wonderful views, instead of burying the pipes, they put them on top ...
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View of the left bank of the Volga and Sokolya mountains.
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Volga and somewhere there airport Kurumych.
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Falcon Mountains from the vicinity of Mount Camel.
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Monastery Hill in August.
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View of Popov Gora and scars from limestone mining.
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A little bit of autumn! Disfigured by gasification beautiful landscapes, Shiryaeva!
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Bald Mountain, as we always called Monastyrskaya Gora, from my great-grandfather's house!
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Harsh autumn Volga.
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Autumn Shiryaevo.
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And at the end of the story, two panoramas of Shiryaev. (clickable)
24. Panorama (Clickable)
View of Shiryaevo from the hill
The village of Shiryaevo is located in picturesque place, which is often and quite rightly called the Volga Switzerland. For many years, Shiryaevo has enjoyed the fame of Samara residents and guests of the city as one of the most attractive places for tourist trip On one day.
There are several ways to get to Shiryaev. Sailing along the Volga, drive along the asphalt road through the hydroelectric power station and Zhigulevsk, or along the dirt road through Rozhdestveno and Vypolzovo. All three options will take approximately the same amount of time.
This amazing place is one of the most successful tourist sites where you can appreciate the beauty of the Zhiguli and national park"Samarskaya Luka", on the territory of which the village of Shiryaevo is located. Shiryaevo owes its popularity among tourists not only to the magnificent nature, but also to the developed museum and tourist complex, the official opening of which took place in 2007. Special pedestrian, horseback and bicycle routes have been developed, a berth for receiving Volga cruise ships has been equipped, and a small beach has been equipped. Traditionally popular with tourists are excursions to the famous adits on Popova Gora and to the holy spring "Stone Bowl".
Initially, the village was called Shiryaev Buerak. This is most likely due to the size of the valley in which the village is located. "Shiryay" means "width", "space"; "gully" - a ravine. Shiryaevsky ravine - the largest such formation of the Samara Bend. Its length is about 35 km.
The time of the foundation of the village of Shiryaev Buerak is considered to be 1628. Description of the surroundings of the village in Zhiguli can be found in the notes of the Dutch painter and traveler Cornelia de Bruina who saw these places in May 1703.
But Shiryaevo became famous after the great painter visited the village Ilya Repin, collecting material for his famous painting "Barge Haulers on the Volga". The log house where Repin lived has been preserved - a real Russian hut, carved windows, a porch, a bench nearby. Currently, this house is already waiting for its visitors as a museum. The museum has preserved many drawings, sketches, sketches and sketches made by the painter. The interior of the house has been authentically restored. As before, during the lifetime of the artist, all items are in their places. The festival "Repin's Birthday" is annually held here, traditionally gathering numerous guests from different parts of our country and abroad.
Initially, the village was called Shiryaev Buerak.
The village is also associated with another famous name. Alexander Shiryaevets- a poet of the Silver Age - was born here in 1887, lived and studied at the parochial school until 1898, after which he continued his studies in Samara. The house-museum of the poet is open and operates in the village.
In the valley of the Shiryaevsky ravine, as if in a chain, more than fifteen natural monuments follow each other.
In the valley of the Shiryaevsky ravine, everything that is rich in the nature of these lands is collected: springs, rocks, stony steppes, different types of forests. Including birch and pine. As in a chain, more than fifteen natural monuments follow each other. The Verkhovoy and Shiryaevsky springs hid in the upper reaches, in the middle part - the Churakayka tract, the Khmelevoy ravine, then - geological monuments: Fox holes (caves) and the Big Shiryaevsky grotto. After three kilometers - the largest spring of the Samarskaya Luka - Stone Bowl. In this place of constant pilgrimage for tourists and lovers of natural water, a log chapel was installed in 1998.
A special place in the cultural life of not only Shiryaev, but also the Samara region, is held here in August of every odd year, starting from 1999, the international Shiryaev Biennale. Each time representatives of contemporary art present to the public the results of their research on the updated theme of the year in the situation "between Europe and Asia".
More than once in Shiryaevo ecological ski marathons, competitions "Volzhsky Extreme", dedicated to the opening of the tourist season in the Samara region, were held.
There are several ways to get to Shiryaev. It is very pleasant to sail two or three dozen kilometers along the Volga on a Moskva-type ship from the river station or on your own boat. You can admire the picturesque forests along the asphalt road through the hydroelectric power station and Zhigulevsk from the car window. Or drive a car - an SUV or a bicycle - on a dirt road through Rozhdestveno and Vypolzovo. Curiously, all three options will take approximately the same amount of time. In winter, hovercraft follow the village.
Sources:
Seinensky A.E. Motherland. To help the local history teacher. M., 1994.
Monuments of nature of the Kuibyshev region / Compiled by: V.I. Matveev and M.S. Gorelov. Kuibyshev: Prince. publishing house, 1986.
