With some great road trip options available in the surrounding area, having your own car makes good sense. Without one, it wouldn’t be half as easy to explore all that Chekhov, 20 miles away, has to offer. Museum in Memory of 1941-1945, Lopasnya Zachatyevskoye Manor House and Museum and Chekhov Town Theater alone justify the drive out here. The locals will also probably point you toward Kaluga, 45 miles away. If you only have time for one thing here, let it be Kaluga XXI Century. (But we’re also big fans of Tsiolkovsky State Museum of Cosmonautics History and Tsiolkovsky Memorial House Museum.)