Shushary

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SHUSHARY, a municipal unit of Pushkinsky District, 14 kilometres to the south of St. Petersburg, at the intersection of the Russia federal highway and Vitebsk Railway Line (and railway station). The population consists of about 6,000 people (2002). Workers' settlement of Shushary was formed in 1958 on account of the creation of a sovkhoz (state farm) of the same name (today agro-industrial enterprise Sovkhoz Shushary limited corporation); 7 kilometres to the south-west of it, on Moskovskoe Freeway, on the place where it is intersected by the Kuzminka River there was Shushary village (or Susary). Present-day Shushary features a training centre of the Academy of Management and Agrobusiness of Nonchernozem zone of Russia, the Niva Hotel and the Avtomobilist Hotel, large motor transport and logistic complexes (to the east of Moskovskoe Freeway and 2.5 km to the south of the railway station). The Open-Air Steam-Engine Museum is located on a railway station to the south of Shushary. In 2002, a new six-lane motor overpass over the railway was constructed as part of the Russian highway in Shushary.

Е. А. Bondarchuk.