Railway Station Square - is the first thing he sees coming to Saransk by rail . By the way, this type of transport appeared in the city in 1893 . when here brought the Moscow-Kazan railway . area built at the end of the century, in the 1940s, restored and made . . more currently, with its name, there is some confusion: what if she Train station, either - Heroes' Square-Stratonavts . One way or another, city residents understand it as Privokzalnaya, and it is on it Two interesting city attractions laid .

The first of these is, in fact, the building of the railway station of Saransk. I must say, a brand new station, "a brand", opened only in 2009. This is a three-storied building is quite perceptible kind, which has become one of the fruits of a total program of renovation of Saransk in the early 21st century

The second and main attraction of the Railway station square is a monument to the heroes-stratonavtam. It is dedicated to three people: Andrei Vasenko, Ilya Usikin and Pavel Fedoseyenko. In 1934, these three climbed on the stratospheric "Osoaviakhim-1", developed by A. Vasenko, to a height of 22 km. It was an absolute record for that time and the first ever winter flight of the stratosphere. "OAH-1" was launched in Kuntsevo, but when you try to get the accident occurred, and the aircraft fell on the territory of Mordovia, near the village of Potizhsky Ostrog. (Now - Usykino)

Initially, it was supposed to establish a monument where the stratospheric ball dropped, but later it was decided to put it in the capital. They wanted to do it right away, but the war prevented it. The competition of projects for the future monument was announced only in 1957

The monument is a statue of a man in the clothes of an aviator, mounted on a long cylinder with black labradorite lining. In the lower part of the cylinder are placed bas-relief images of three stratonovtov

Practical information

Address: пл. Vokzalnaya.

Saransk Railway Station is located in the northern part of the city, two kilometers from the cathedral.