With some awesome day trip options available in the surrounding area, renting a car makes sense. Without one, it’d be much harder to experience everything that Cheboksary, 18 miles away, has to offer. Monument of Mother ought to be toward the top of your list here. Chuvash National Museum and Museum of V.I. Chapaev are excellent attractions too. The locals will also likely point you toward Yoshkar-Ola, 45 miles away. If you can only find time for one attraction here, let it be Museum of the History of the Gulag. (But we’d also highly recommend Sapaev Mari State Opera and Ballet Theatre and Mari El National Shketan Drama Theater.)