With some terrific road trip options available in the surrounding area, renting a car makes sense. Without one, it wouldn’t be half as easy to enjoy everything that Kaluga, 35 miles away, has to offer. Among the first stops you make here ought to be Kaluga XXI Century, Tsiolkovsky State Museum of Cosmonautics History and Tsiolkovsky Memorial House Museum. Don’t skip Serpukhov either! Just 45 miles away, Serpukhov Music and Drama Theatre, Vysotsky Monastery and Church of All Saints are must-sees here.