The Mikhail Sespel Museum was opened in 2003 in a building where the Chuvash poet worked as a translator in 1921.  Mikhail Sespel, who is also known as Mishshi Sespel, was born in 1899 in Kazakkasy which has been renamed Sespel in his honour and is now part of the Republic of Chuvashia.  Today Sespel is considered one of the leading figures in Chuvash-language poetry and this small museum has two halls detailing his life, work, death and legacy.  Sespel hanged himself in 1922 when he was living in the Ukrainian city of Ostyor, where he went to recover from tuberculosis.  The museum is run as a branch of the Chuvash National Museum.