Sovetsky municipal district

Sovetsky district is located in the central part of the Republic of Mari El and belongs to the area of an elevated hilly plain. It borders Novotoryalsky district in the north, Kuzhenersky district in the east, Morkinsky District in the southeast, Zvenigovsky District in the south, Medvedevsky District in the west, and Orsha district in the northwest. The republican highway Yoshkar-Ola — Urzhum passes through the territory of the district. Villages and villages are connected to the district center by highways.

There are 55 historical, cultural and natural monuments in the district, of which 9 are archaeological, 2 are architecture and urban planning, 22 are historical, 22 are landscape. All the monuments reflect the material and spiritual life of past and present generations.

E.M. Ivanov Soviet Regional Museum of Local Lore was founded by Ensai Makarovich Ivanov, a journalist and an enthusiastic local historian. The museum has expositions in 7 sections: the department of history of the district, the Department of ethnography, the Department of history of technology, the Department of history of enterprises and organizations, the Department of nature, the Hall of Military Glory, the Department of peasant labor.

name of Arkady Stepanovich Krupnyakov, a popular writer of the MASSR, is dear to every resident of the Sovetsky district. He was born here, lived here, and is buried in the village of Chkarino. More than one generation has grown up on his works. The Chkarinsky (model) library – museum of the writer A.S.Krupnyakov of the MUK "MCB" of the Sovetsky district is a kind of literary and local history center for the promotion of Krupnyakov's heritage.

Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Chkarin is the third of the wooden architecture monuments preserved in Mari El, a surprisingly bright and elegant temple. At one time, he was the only one in the district, uniting believers from neighboring villages and villages.

are many springs in our republic, where, through the prayers of the Mother of God and the saints, water is poured out with abundant grace-giving gifts. Revered for centuries, the holy spring near the village of Shabashi is one of the most famous in the Republic. When the spring became known, no one will remember, according to legend, one peasant plowman found an icon of the Kazan Mother of God in the field and hammered a spring of the purest water in the place of the appearance of the face of the Virgin.

The archaeological monuments include the Abasnur, Kolyanur, Prokopyevskaya, Semeykinskaya, Alekseevskaya kurgan groups (the Bronze Age — the end of the 2nd millennium BC), Verkhushnurskoye and Ronginsky cemeteries and the Tapsherskoe prayer field.

31 sacred groves belong to the landscape monuments. A place of pilgrimage for people is the key near the former village of Shabashi, which is considered sacred. Lake Kundushturskoye belongs to the natural monuments.

Sovetsky district is the birthplace of Hero of the Soviet Union A.N.Gromov, full knight of the Order of Glory N.T.Keleev.