Zvenigovsky municipal district

The district is located on the left bank of the Volga River and borders the Republic of Chuvashia from the south along the Volga.

Sailing by ship, you can see the town-forming shipbuilding and ship repair plant named after S.N. Butyakov, which gave birth to the city of Zvenigovo more than a hundred years ago. A convenient backwater for parking ships, the most picturesque places, and the presence of forests in the 19th century attracted the attention of Kostroma industrialists, who founded a ship repair plant in 1860 at the confluence of the Zvenigi River with the Volga.

A huge number of large and small rivers flow through the territory of the Zvenigovsky district: Volga, Ilet, Yushut, Bolshaya and Malaya Kokshagi, etc., as well as the Mari Chodra State Natural Park: pine forests, coniferous and broadleaf forests, many springs and mineral springs.

One of the bright recreation areas of the Zvenigovsky district is the village of Kokshaysk with a variety of opportunities for outdoor activities – a wake park, ATVs, surfing, snowmobiling, skiing, jet skis, boats and speedboats.

Currently, tourists are offered 3 operating routes that allow them to learn all the most interesting things about the outback - small settlements of the Zvenigovsky district.

For lovers of relaxing holidays, a tourist route has been developed that allows you to get acquainted with the history of the first Russian city in the Mari Territory – Kokshaysk. It was founded in 1574, twenty-two years after the capture of Kazan by the troops of Ivan the Terrible in 1552. The route includes

a sightseeing tour of the village, a visit to the Kokshaysk History Museum, where you can learn about the first voivodes and builders of the fortress; about the visit of the future Emperor Alexander III to the village, about the school that bore his name; about the legends of the ancient settlement, about archaeological excavations. More than two hundred and fifty years ago, events related to with the history of the Pugachev uprising. The rural hiking trail "In the footsteps of Yemelyan Pugachev" will introduce you to this story.

The "Path of Hope" introduces the traditions and customs of the Mari people. This is an extraordinary journey in the footsteps of our ancestors into the distant past, a world that holds the secrets of centuries, to the ancient village of Kokshamary, the birthplace of the founders of Mari music, I.S. Klyunikov–Palantai, Yakov Eshpai and the world-famous composer Andrei Eshpai.

The Peasant Manor Guest House will demonstrate the weaving ceremony and tell about the national hero Pashkan – patyr.