I stayed at Ivan's place in June for 2 nights and I'm very grateful for his hospitality! He hadn't enough time to show us around, but he did his best for us. Marked interesting places on the city map, gave advices about the route in the center of Yoshkar-Ola, and finally gave us a lift by his own car to the best point for hitchhiking out from Yoshkar-Ola to Kazan.