Editing Andriyan Nikolayev (section)

==Early life==

Andrian Grigoryevich Nikolayev was born on 5 September 1929, in [[Shorshely]], a village in the [[Chuvashia|Chuvash]] region of the [[Volga|Volga River]] valley, and spent his time growing up on a collective farm.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Escaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and the Sixties|last=Evans|first=Ben|date=30 June 2009|publisher=Springer-Praxis Publishing|isbn=978-0-387-79093-0|pages=41, 42}}</ref>