Slowly making your way along a broken dirt road through fields and lifeless villages of the Tula region, you see dozens, hundreds of silhouettes of old cars gradually appearing in front of you. In the rays of the setting sun, against the backdrop of a dreary Central Russian landscape, Moskvich, Zhiguli, Volga, Zaporozhets, Rafiki, ZIL and other cars that filled the country’s roads decades ago stand in orderly rows in front of you. The collection of more than 320 exhibits was assembled by enthusiast Mikhail Krasinets.
The Auto-USSR Museum of Retro Cars is located in the tiny, several-house village of Millionnaya (the village of Chernousovo is often indicated), about 9 kilometers from the village of Chern, on the M2 “Crimea” highway. A short route to the Krasinets Museum passes through Ugot: at first the road consists of battered concrete slabs, and then turns into an ordinary dirt road, with deep ruts in places.
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In dry weather you can drive here in a single-wheel drive car with a ground clearance of 150 mm, but if it rains, you can sit tight on the descent to the bridge over the river. We were lucky with the lack of precipitation: we got to the place without incident in the elegant Infiniti QX70. There is also an easier, but slightly longer route through the villages of Donok and Bredikhino.
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A significant part of the collection appeared in 1993, when the auto mechanic of the AZLK racing team, Mikhail Krasinets, sold his apartment and moved to Chernousovo with his wife. “The money from the Moscow apartment was gone in three months. Then we actively bought cars for 150-200 dollars from demolished garages that turned out to be at the construction site of the Third Transport Ring,” says Mikhail.
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The museum is conventionally divided into two unequal parts: most of the cars are located on the field, and the smaller, but most valuable part is located in the interior of the Krasinets house. “Here, a new acquisition,” Mikhail reports with undisguised joy, pointing to a blue “kopeck,” “we bought a VAZ 21011, produced in 1976, for 11 thousand rubles.”
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The cars are purchased exclusively through donations from museum visitors, and everything is up to last ruble goes to replenish the collection. Krasinets admits that there was a period when there was nothing to eat at all. Okay, friends helped. But Mikhail is above these everyday and social problems: “I want the museum to be preserved as Yasnaya Polyana Lev Tolstoy."
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Obviously, to maintain huge collection there is not enough strength or time, and storage under open air has a bad effect on the condition of cars. “I haven’t worked for two years now, after being fired from a neighboring museum. I’m looking forward to when the Moscow pension will begin to accrue, then there will be more opportunities to work on cars,” says Mikhail.
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One of the most noticeable cars from the Auto-USSR museum in travelers’ photo reports is the “police” GAZ M-20. But, in fact, this car is civilian and did not previously belong to government agencies: “My partners and I found this “Victory” in one of the Moscow courtyards in 1998. I already made the inscription “ORUD Police” myself, with a brush. I did the same with one of the 21 Volgas, painting it like a rally car. I also made copies of famous cars from some other exhibits.”
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Krasinets is especially proud of his two Chaikas: GAZ-13 and GAZ-14. The first executive car, designed in the “Detroit Baroque” style, was produced in the USSR from 1959 to 1979, and a total of 3,189 cars were produced. Luxury sedan with a V8 engine under the hood and an automatic transmission. The limousine, of course, sank, and the paint was peeling, but even in this condition, the “Seagull” looks impressive. The interior is generally beautiful - the interior is not in the worst condition. Krasinets offers to sit behind the wheel.
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The second “Chaika” is GAZ 14. The limousine, of course, is not as elegant as the “thirteenth”, but fewer of them were produced: from 1977 to 1988, approximately 1,120 cars were produced. Naturally, Mikhail immediately names the serial number of this car. Krasinets can talk about each car in his collection for hours. “Here, look,” says Mikhail, opening the hood, “a wonderful 8-cylinder engine with two carburetors in a Soviet car.”
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Behind the Chaikas, in an even row, according to production date, are Pobeda and Volga. There are some rare "Twenty Ones" from the initial series with a star on the grille. Nearby lies a unique all-wheel drive GAZ-21 with a front axle and springs. And next to it is a Moskvich 420A convertible with an Opel steering wheel. These were installed on Moskvichi until 1953.
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Here is the only Moskvich 3-5-5 left in the world. The model was built in three copies for state testing. A fairly wide car, a spring suspension, a 1.7-liter engine and an original gearbox with gear ratios selected for a more powerful engine. This prototype, in theory, was supposed to turn into the Moskvich 2140, but it didn’t happen.
Interesting story the appearance of the rare “Moskvich 3-5-5” at Krasinets. The car stood on the outskirts of the AZLK museum, and in 1994 they already wanted to cut it into metal. However, then we managed to agree with the director of the museum to transfer the sedan to Mikhail in exchange for a used Volga engine. Mikhail Krasinets, of course, had such an engine, and after some time the exchange took place. But this is rather an exception to the rule - Krasinets extremely rarely exchanges anything, and, moreover, does not sell anything from his collection: “Everything that ends up in the museum remains in the museum. There is still something to sell here, but I will never do this,” sums up Mikhail.
Krasinets' unique integrity resulted in the fact that many cars located outside his courtyard, on the field, were simply overgrown with grass. How can one, well, maybe with one assistant, keep an eye on such a huge fleet of vehicles? Many exhibits were looted (headlights, body and interior parts), which makes it all look sad, even frightening. The pattern is simple: the further away from Mikhail’s house, the more deplorable the condition of the exhibits.
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Here in the field there are no less rare and significant exhibits than in the collector’s courtyard. For example, the Moskvich-2140SL “Rally” sports car of racer Sergei Shipilov, bought by Krasinets in the late nineties for a couple of hundred dollars.
Perhaps, part of the exhibition in the open field looks more like a grandiose art object than a museum, like famous cemetery old cars Old Car City in Georgia is a very popular tourist spot where admission costs $25. As for the Mikhail Krasinets Museum, the payment system here is the same as in: pay as much as you think is necessary. There is no fixed fee.
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It's great to do all sorts of photo shoots here. If you have a long-legged blonde or a brunette with a heavy look on hand, it will work out great. And the Lego cars given out for bonuses at the Shell gas station turn out great. As they say, who can do what! The scope for flight of fancy is limitless.
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The Auto-USSR Museum and Krasinets personally are often criticized even by his close friends, not to mention ardent envious people. The main complaint is that Mikhail destroys the rarest cars in his graveyard without restoring them. On the other hand, many, if not most of the cars from his collection would have already been destroyed and scrapped in the nineties. Decide for yourself what it is: a museum, an art object or a cemetery for vintage cars.
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How can I get to. Maps are based on Google Earth
The option is short, but difficult to pass in rainy weather
Option for any car, but longer
Special thanks to Viktor Borisov for the tip to the museum
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Finally, we were able to fully open the motorcycle season by taking a ride with my brother to the Krasinets Museum in Chernousovo, in the Tula region (driving to/from work is not traditionally considered the opening of the season :)) The weather was wonderful, the museum itself turned out to be very interesting place, so there will be a lot of photos in the report.
The Krasinets Museum is not exactly a museum... It’s almost like a garbage dump, a cemetery of old cars that rot in the open air in the wilderness of the Tula region. This of course only makes it more interesting! 🙂 I’ve been planning to go there for probably a year and a half, but I didn’t have time, the weather didn’t allow it, and sometimes it’s lazy to drive almost 600 kilometers there and back. Finally got there!
Krasinets is a very ambiguous character. The dude worked for AZLK until the mid-1990s as a racer and mechanic for the factory team. Then, when the plant began to go bankrupt and Krasinets was sent into retirement, something apparently shifted in his head, and he began collecting old cars of varying degrees of disrepair, mostly Muscovites. In Moscow, there was obviously nowhere to put all this stuff, and Krasinets moved to Chernousovo with his entire collection. The collection is gradually being replenished, although judging by the condition of the cars, there will soon be a change in the exhibition due to the loss of exhibits.
In short, the wheelbarrows are rotting among the fields, and Krasinets is drinking heavily. Therefore, if you want to go to the Krasinets Museum, do not delay, because the owner of the museum can at any moment be completely destroyed by the Green Serpent, and then obviously the entire car cemetery will quickly be taken away for scrap metal. And the place is very interesting! I highly recommend going!
Road to the Krasinets Museum in Chernousovo.
From Moscow we leave along Varshavka and go through Tula to Oryol. We reach Cherni, in Cherni itself we turn left onto Efremov. The turn is not very noticeable, so you need to focus on the bridge. We drove across the Chern River bridge - that’s it! This means you missed the turn and are going the wrong way! 🙂
At the exit from Cherny there will be a garbage dump on the right. There will be an old concrete road leading to Bortnoye right in the middle of the garbage dump. Let's go there. The concrete road will then turn right onto Bortnoye, then end and turn into a normal dirt road running among the fields. If you drive along it, sooner or later you will come across a museum.
There is also a more hardcore road, it is shorter, but, as jeepers usually say, “don’t mess around with pussies.” It leads directly through the Land, it’s a lot of fun and enduring, but not everyone will reach the finish line! 🙂
But let's start in order!
We left a little late, but the summer residents had all left the day before, so we didn’t have to push around with our trunks in traffic jams. The road is generally ok. There are potholes in places, repairs, but this is all in the Tula region, you can fly along the Moscow region for your pleasure.
May beetles are already flying. This one survived 🙂 I caught a couple more in the helmet with fatal results. 
The mob turned out to be a pleasant place. Geographical names in general quite often form incorrect associations. Agree that the same Chekhov or Serpukhov a priori seem much better than Cherny :) Cherny turned out to be a very quiet and green village with cows grazing on the roadsides and chickens scattering away from the roar of direct flows. And for some reason I thought that we would see some kind of factory there)) 
The thrill begins from the concrete road to Bortnoye! 🙂 We take off our helmets, then there will be no cops, but only other transport, and very soon the road will disappear too :) 
Of course we went through Ugod :) 
In principle, in dry weather, almost any motorcycle will pass along this road, except choppers and sports. But with one condition: no second number. If you are traveling with a friend, it is better to turn immediately onto Bortnoye, otherwise the passenger will have to walk. In the village of Ugod itself there is a rather difficult descent and ascent. After rain it’s generally scary to go there; in dry weather everything is passable. Then, after the climb, the fields begin, and there are no more problems there. The photo shows a very good road for that area. Then the bad thing started, and there was no time to take pictures :) 
We flew out into the fields, and there was such beauty there! 
The grass has just broken through, so you can simply burn across the field in any direction! Another question is that with different results :) 
And then in the distance something appeared that looked like a cemetery for infected equipment in... We realized that we had arrived :)
Krasinets Retro Car Museum in Chernousovo.
There are a lot of cars, mostly Muscovites. 
In fact, after the road through the Land, this museum is perceived as a sperm whale crashing in the desert. The first thought is “Oh my! How did they get it all here!?” 
Krasinets himself had already celebrated Victory Day by the time we arrived, so it’s not like he could no longer stand on his feet to conduct an excursion :) A certain lady came out of the house to us, either his wife or his partner, I don’t know, and said that the museum was free, and we can walk and look, just don’t unscrew anything from the cars and smoke away. They live there modestly... 
We modestly parked on the outskirts of the museum and went to climb through the exhibits. 
Museum caretaker. 
Here words will be superfluous. And you can clearly see the state in which everything is. 
A big plus is that you can sit everywhere and climb under the hoods. Do what you want! 
In general, you understand the general vector. A bunch of old broken-down cars. But the atmosphere there is simply mind-blowing! You’re walking like this through the territory of the “museum”, dodging a guard dog, tripping over a leaky bucket, and then bam! Do you see this! 
And you kick the bucket, stand and admire for a few seconds, then slowly aim the lens. Click! 🙂
It's not even about old rusty cars. If they were in the city, it would be just a landfill. It's about contrasts!
I'll still add a ton of photos.
And so we wander, wandering around the museum, and then Krasinets’ wife appears once again. And he says, guys, did you play firemen? We looked at each other, I said that I don’t understand what we’re talking about. She says, I’ll give you wet rags now, let’s go put out the fire in the field :) Putting out the fire in the local fields was not part of our plans, because, not only did we have to move to Tula, but we also didn’t want to wash our equipment.
The lady was persistent and said that she was very nervous because of the fires and that this was causing her teeth to fall out :) We didn’t tell her what actually caused her teeth to fall out, although the answer was on the surface. Her face was puffy from drinking, plus she probably smoked half a pack of cigarettes in front of us.
In the end, we shamefully paid off. Before the trip, of course, I read that they don’t sell tickets at the Krasinets Museum, and that everyone simply gives thanks as they see fit. We thanked them with money (the lady beamed!), jumped on our motorcycles and went to Tula a different way, through Bortnoye.
And a couple came after us, so I think there was someone there to play firemen 😉
The way back through Bortnoye passes through fields, there is a very pleasant and beautiful road, where in some places you can safely maintain 70-80 km/h.
Tula.
I had been to Tula many years ago, and I didn’t remember anything about the city. On the way back we decided to spend the night there simply because there was nothing to do. We checked into the cheapest hotel "Tula" with hot water from both taps (how do they do this? :))
Tula is somehow without any zest at all. We left there, but I didn’t remember anything, I didn’t even take out my camera. Well, there are a lot of guns everywhere and all sorts of equipment standing on the streets as monuments, well, the Kremlin is there, as usual, but everything is somehow not interesting. There are few good establishments, the girls are mostly ugly. Yes, and they got caught by a motorized battalion, unknowingly turning them under a brick. They gave us a fine))
As a result, the Krasinets Museum is a very cool place! The nature is amazing, there is plenty of climbing in the museum itself, and the road is a blast! I recommend!
But you don’t have to go to Tula, there’s nothing to do there.
It all started with the fact that we once again rebuilt the suspension of our favorite UAZ Patriot SUV. Feeling a sense of legitimate pride in the crazy project of turning a UAZ into a fan car, we took care of organizing rides to properly celebrate new stage improving your favorite car.
Our scent led us to an interesting place.
The world runs on weirdos. Oddballs are inconvenient, sometimes annoying, and have a lot of human flaws, but without oddballs the world would collapse. If you ban the existence of eccentrics, then development will stop, and people with imagination will take a break from boredom. Fortunately, it is impossible to ban eccentrics. We went to visit one of them.
If you are in Moscow and are going to visit a car collector, then be prepared to travel about 600 km there and back in a day. From Moscow you leave along the Simferopol highway and go to Tula region before district center with the sonorous name Chern. Next, according to the diagram, look for the village of Chernousovo.
Somehow it’s not cool to take a detour in a prepared Patriot, so we chose a shorter and more problematic route. In dry weather, the lowland with a bridge over the Ugod River is passable on any under-drive vehicle. Only precise steering work is required, because... falling off a narrow road with ruts and difficult terrain is a piece of cake. It is enough for the driver to be distracted either by the beauty of nature or by the charms of a friend nearby. But when the narrow clay path among the steep hills along the edge of the swamps becomes muddy from the rains, it will be fun in any car. We were driving into dry sunny golden autumn and got there easily.
The village of Chernousovo is a typical abandoned Russian village in the Tula region. Most residents have traditionally been divided into three categories: dead, smart and alcoholics. The dead lie in the cemetery and will not go anywhere. The smart ones left for a better life. Alcoholics drift like shit in an ice hole, now towards the dead, now towards the smart. One house was discovered in the entire village, a la cottage with Russian flag and a family of summer residents driving a Chevrolet Niva. The remaining houses and outbuildings are gradually falling into disrepair.
Here in Chernousovo lives a man whose activities evoke conflicting feelings among people. It comes to a clash of passions and opinions, to the creation of multi-page forums, to mutual insults on the Internet.
Forum Mikhail Krasinets and his museum
Museum website
Let us present our subjective personal version.
Mikhail Yurievich Krasinets is a youthful, cheerful man over 50. Weathered, red-faced, with streaks of blood vessels on his face, he gives the impression of a man who either drinks or has once drunk heavily. A frightening, fresh, chopped wound runs through the left half of the face and eyes (as Mikhail explains, recently, while repairing a car, a metal fan impeller fell off a rotating shaft and, like a samurai sword, struck a vertical blow across the entire face). He is wearing a cap, a la Luzhkov on the beach, fashionable sunglasses, a la a playboy, and old gigantic boots, a la a homeless man. An unforgettable look is complemented by a shabby, holey jacket in the style of a country intellectual. At the sight of Mikhail, nervous young ladies may faint. But then Mikhail spoke - and from that moment on, his soft voice of the boa constrictor Kaa from “Mowgli” does not let you go. And Mikhail can talk endlessly: about cars, about auto racing, about people, about life... This man has something to say, and he does it brilliantly.
A professional auto mechanic, former AZLK racing driver, and rally driver Mikhail Krasinets left big sport and began collecting old Soviet cars. Currently there are about 300 pieces in his collection! When an entire street in Moscow was already lined with Mikhail’s cars, it became clear that it was impossible to maintain such a number of cars in urban conditions: neighbors were indignant and complained, cars were robbed and set on fire, and one day, on election day, the authorities simply took half of the collection to a landfill. That’s when Mikhail and his wife sold their Moscow apartment in the Frunzenskaya embankment area, bought several more rarities with the proceeds, and left with their cars for the village of Chernousovo in the Tula region.
Mikhail is active, as if he has a real sports car engine inside him! He was a motorsport instructor in the regional DOSAAF committee. He is one of the founders of the Moscow historical club “Retro-Muscovite”. He worked as a car mechanic and car painter to earn extra money and learn the intricacies of the profession. He worked on rare automotive designs, including four-wheel drives and convertibles. He bought and begged old cars to lay the foundation for his current collection.
Heated discussions are raging around Mikhail's personality and activities. People are partial to things that go against their idea of a “normal” life. Mikhail is considered a devotee who saves old cars from imminent destruction. Mikhail is considered a crazy collector of rusty junk. Mikhail is considered a car killer who collects rarities, but does not care about their safety in the difficult climate of central Russia. Mikhail is considered a cunning swindler who wants to gain popularity and get rich on the automotive topic. It must be said that the image that Mikhail created during our day of communication fully allows for any of these interpretations. But our goal is not to make a “fair verdict”; we are describing a phenomenon that makes life interesting. Without Mikhail, the world would become a little more gray and boring. This is undeniable!
We spent almost the whole day together and talked a lot about cars. Mikhail became interested in our tuned UAZ Patriot SUV and even expressed a desire to make something similar for himself.
To date, Mikhail has managed to register his event as a branch of the Chern State Historical and Local Lore Museum named after M.A. Voznesensky
"MUSEUM OF THE AUTO-USSR IN CHERNUSOVO".
Mikhail plans not only to increase his collection, but also to build auto repair shops for full restoration, organize races on retro cars, and much more. Unfortunately, these plans are unlikely to be raised by one person, and Mikhail is unlikely to allow strangers to his treasures. While these retro cars are used by photographers to photograph girls in the surroundings. They brought us another tanned, long-legged model. Mikhail is not so much against it, but he is amazed at how the topic of love for old cars has turned out. They are also trying to steal and destroy cars. After all, even individual parts cost restorers money. A funny detail: a cable strung between vintage cars for a guard dog.
Some cars rust and collapse, others are carefully restored by Mikhail. By what principle he chooses, we do not know. There are examples in the car collection that did not leave us indifferent. We show them to you.
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Mikhail Yuryevich Krasinets, a former AZLK racing driver, left the sport and began collecting old cars. He placed his first collectible cars on a 1:1 scale right under the windows of his Moscow apartment in the Preobrazhensky district. The collection of battered wheeled “veterans” was regularly subjected to destructive attacks by the surrounding boys - they broke windows, twisted doors, set them on fire, and one day, on election day, the authorities simply took half of the collection to a landfill. Mikhail and his wife sold their Moscow apartment, bought several more rarities with the proceeds, and left with their cars for the Tula region. Now the Krasinets Museum has more than 300 cars.
1. Let's start with the cargo part of the museum. On the left with a sign is “ZIL-164A”, which was produced in 61-65. For a long time these cars were faithful “workhorses” in almost all automobile fleets Soviet Union. On their basis, specialized factories produced large quantities of vans, tankers, tanks, fire engines, truck cranes and many other types of special equipment. On the right is a ZIL-157 modified by PARM (mobile auto repair shop). 157-ZILs were produced from 58 to 92, and some series up to 94!
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3. The GAZ-66A off-road truck with a load capacity of 2 tons. Produced in 64-68. Legendary cross-country ability is due to the use of self-locking differentials, high ground clearance and adjustable tire pressure.
4. Two-door Ford Granada from the early 80s.
6. Moskvich-401 overgrown with grass, the Gazikov family in the background.
7. "Moskvich-402".
8. “Moskvich-423” - the first domestic production car in the USSR with a five-door station wagon body, produced in 57-58. The engine power of the first station wagon was only 35 hp.
9. Lonely “Victory”, GAZ-M 20.
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14. ZAZ-965A “Zaporozhets” or in the export version “Yalta”. This is the first generation of Cossacks, which was produced from 60 to 69. In the USSR, this car was popular largely due to its relative cheapness (about three thousand Soviet rubles). In addition, the Zaporozhets were distinguished by good cross-country ability due to their high ground clearance, smooth, flat bottom and increased load on the drive axle. Interesting feature- the windshield and rear glass of the Zaporozhets are interchangeable. Maximum engine power - 27 hp. with a working volume of 887 cm³.
15. "Moskvich-400". The car is a copy of the pre-war Opel-Kadet K38. After the war, part of the equipment was removed from the Opel plant in Rüsselsheim, and the remaining stamps were made by the ZIS plant. The rear doors open against the movement, not according to GOST. "Moskvich-400" became the first truly mass people's car in the USSR, designed mainly for individual owners. In the frame is one of the cars of the ORUD (traffic control department) fleet.
16.V post-war years With the launch of the GAZ-M20 Pobeda car into production, the question of creating a new domestic comfortable all-terrain vehicle was raised. The SUV, called GAZ-M72, was created on the basis of the Pobeda body and units of the GAZ-69 army all-terrain vehicle. For this car, only external body panels and a load-bearing body frame were taken from Pobeda, which was modified and further strengthened.
17. GAZ M-21, the legendary Volga.
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22. 402 and 407 Muscovites.
Serial production of Moskvich-402 began in April 1956. For the first time in our automotive industry, a panoramic one-piece curved windshield, telescopic shock absorbers, push-button opening of door locks, a trunk lid unlocked from the inside and a two-spoke steering wheel were used. The front seats folded down into a comfortable bed, and the trunk had a fairly large volume of 0.34 m³. All cars were equipped with a tube radio receiver with a range of long and medium waves. The engine power of the 402nd was 35 hp.
The 407th model went into mass production in May 1958, and from 1960 the radiator trim became smaller and more strict. A number of cars, for the first time among domestic models, received two-tone body paint and, as a result, have good chances for export. After a fairly successful modernization of the engine, the power of which was increased to 45 hp, the dynamics of the car improved significantly, and maximum speed increased from 105 to 115 km/h.
23. On the right, in a row, are “Moskvich-408” produced in ’64-’75. In the second half of the 1960s, the car was quite widely exported under the name “Moskvich-Elite”. The car was one of the first in the USSR to be carefully studied from the point of view of passive safety, and it became the first Soviet car to be subjected to a frontal impact - a crash test - at the NAMI test site. A small number of Moskvich-408 were made in Izhevsk, and under the Rila-1400 brand the car was produced under license in Bulgaria.
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-Where is this damn disabled person?
- Do not be noisy. I am disabled.
“S–3A” minicar or motorized stroller produced in 1958-1970. It has a tubular space frame and a motorcycle single-cylinder two-stroke engine with a power of 10 HP.
27. Another motorized stroller - “SZD”. Its 18-horsepower engine was frankly weak for a rather heavy structure of 500 kg and produced an extremely unpleasant crackling noise during operation.
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36. “GAZ-12” or “ZiM-12” - Soviet six-seven-seater passenger car big class with a “six-window long-wheelbase sedan” body. Produced from 50 to 60 years. "ZiM" is the first representative model of the Gorky Automobile Plant. The car was intended mainly for government and party officials. There were very few private cars, although they were freely sold, but the price of approximately 36,000 rubles was enormous for the vast majority of citizens of the USSR.
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74. Interior of "Victory". In the interior decoration, according to the tradition of those years, soft, pastel colors were used - beige, brown, gray. Massive plastic overlays gave the panel a modern, neat look appearance. The plastic could be gray, ivory or brown, and the steering wheel, various handles and buttons were made of the same plastic. The panel itself contained a very complete set of instruments for those times - a speedometer, a gasoline level indicator, a pressure gauge, an ammeter, a thermometer, right and left turn indicator lamps, and an automatic watch. As additional equipment it was possible to order: two sun visors, two ashtrays, a cigarette lighter, a ceiling lamp, a portable lamp, a rear-view mirror and a two-tone electric signal.
75. All-wheel drive station wagon "Moskvich-411".
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79. The interior of the Moskvich-407 also includes a sofa.
80. And this is the Moskvich-408, which has separate seats.
81. Interior of "Winter".
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85. Batmanmobile "Buick Eight" '39.
86. The condition of the interior shows that the car is already 70 years old.
87. “The Seagull.” The spacious and comfortable cabin can comfortably accommodate seven people. It has a “Glove compartment” next to the instrument panel, ashtrays and electric cigarette lighters, a five-band receiver with automatic tuning and an additional speaker for rear passengers, push-button control of antenna lift and window glass. Heads of ministries and departments, first secretaries of republican communist parties, and USSR ambassadors to foreign countries rode the Chaikas. One Chaika was even used by the US Embassy. Revolutionary Fidel Castro received “The Seagull” as a gift from Khrushchev. Cars that had served their time in ministries and had undergone two overhauls were transferred to Intourist, wedding palaces and registry offices.
88. Like many visitors, I had a double impression after getting acquainted with the exhibits of the museum. On the one hand, everything looks depressing, cars overgrown with grass are rotting in the field and Mikhail Krasinets is not able, both financially and temporarily, to keep track of all the cars alone. On the other hand, for a vintage car, spending the rest of its days in a museum is better than rotting in yards or dying in a landfill. I would like to believe that Mikhail will find sponsors and restore, if not all, but at least some of the cars.
