Kanash

Kanash is a town inside the Chuvash Republic, Russia. It was founded in 1891. Between 1891 and 1925 it become referred to as Shikhrany. The town's history is carefully related to the improvement of the railway. The Moscow Kazan line was completed, besides for the Imperatorsky Romanovsky railway bridge across Volga, in December 1884 through personal Moscow Ryazan Railway Company which changed into renamed to Moscow Kazan Railway Company on July 11, 1891, which furnished all train carrier inside the vicinity as much as 1918, when all the final private railways have been nationalized via the Bolsheviks.

The starting of the station, which became then surrounded with the aid of forest, provided a convenient production point for the wooden enterprise, and windmills were built within the area. In 1911, there had been extra than forty buying and selling corporations in Shikhrany. In 1912, a primary faculty turned into opened, and in 1914 a middle faculty. In 1919, Shikhrany station became a railway junction, whilst the Arzamas–Shikhrany line, which were under creation from 1914, whilst the last section changed into completed from the Tsarkli River bridge to Shihrany, and opened to complete traffic. The line were in confined use with constrained automobile masses in view that summer season 1917.