Shiryaevo village, located in the national park "Samara Luka" and the world-famous museum of the artist Ilya Repin, the sources "stone bowl" and a tourist complex, "a farm", has another unique attraction - the gallery.

Shiryaevo galleries, formed by limestone mining, represent an entire underground city with vast galleries of tunnels at a height greater than a truck. As well as in the city, zes is the main "street" and the set of adjacent parallel "lanes" which take hundreds of meters deep.

The high-quality limestone, containing one hundred percent calcium carbonate, mined in Shiryaevo in the nineteenth century in the quarries. In the early twentieth century began a large-scale development of tunnels that served as the formation of a sufficiently large "of the underworld." The current inhabitants of the dungeon - a rare species of bats, often frightening stragglers from a group of tourists. The most interesting places are away from the organized tourist routes and lead to another system of tunnels. Corridors in long tunnels wider, ceilings are much higher and the stone has a different texture and color. On the walls of the gallery often gets a modern cave paintings, and the output of one of the caves even have a little crumbling relief.

Indescribable beauty and environment Shiryaevo galleries - panoramic views of the River Volga, a thick deciduous forest glade meadow and bright colors, in a word - protected places Samara Bend.