With some great road trip options in the surrounding area, renting a car makes good sense. Without one, it’d be much harder to experience all that Rostov-on-Don, 25 miles away, has to offer. Olimp - 2, Gorky Park and Don State Technical University alone make the drive out worth it. Locals will also likely point you toward Taganrog, 50 miles away. If you only have time for one thing here, let it be Chekhov House Museum. (But we’d also highly recommend Taganrog Museum of Local Lore and Chekhov Literature Museum.)