With some great road trip options available in the surrounding area, having your own car makes sense. Without one, it’d be much more difficult to soak up all that Kaluga, 50 miles away, has to offer. Kaluga XXI Century, Tsiolkovsky State Museum of Cosmonautics History and Tsiolkovsky Memorial House Museum alone make the drive out worthwhile. Don’t skip Oryol either! Just 60 miles away, Russian Style Municipal Theater, Orel Puppet Theater and Turgenev Literature Museum are must-sees here.