The Volga and Sura Rivers connect Chuvashia to a national and international water network.
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One of them was the semifast Sochi-Sverdlovsk-Sochi long distance transit train, halting only at Alatyr, Buinsk, and Kanash.
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On May 15, 1917, the Chuvash joined the Idel-Ural Movement and in December 1917 joined the short-lived Idel-Ural State, when an agreement was reached with Tatar representatives to draw the eastern border of Chuvashia at the Sviyaga River.
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In the eastern part of Chuvashia, the federal road A-151 runs from Tsivilsk through Kanash, Komsomolskoye, Chkalovskoye, Karabay-Shemursha, Shemursha to Ulyanovsk and Saratov.
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When the power of the Golden Horde began to diminish, the local Mişär Tatar Murzas from Piana and Temnikov tried to rule the Chuvash area.
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Some of the Volga River valley reservoirs are in the north of the republic, and the Sura River flows towards the Volga along much of the republic's western boundary.
In 2002 he was elected to the Federation Council (Russia), Russia’s Upper House of Parliament, representing the Republic of Chuvashia.
The population migrated from Chuvashia in about 17th century and originally settled in Artukhovsky volost of Belebeevsky county of Orenburg province (now it is Sterlibashevsky rajon of the Republic of Bashkortostan), it is about 3-4 kilometers from village Smorodinovka, in the lands of a landowner from Saint Petersburg, not so far from a not existing currently village Baranovka.