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Categories Automotive, Culture, History, Photos, Technology

Unfortunately, Soviet carmakers didn’t have much to offer. However, there were some nice up-to-date cars worth mentioning like the GAZ-M20 Pobeda or the VAZ-2121 Niva, one of the first Soviet compact and

comfortable SUVs made. The GAZ-21 Volga has always had a special place in the hearts of Soviet people and this love is unexplainable. You will never find a person to say something mean about this car.

Categories Automotive, Photos, Technology

Check out how cool they've pimped the old GAZ M1. You

can hardly tell that this is one and the same car!

Categories Photos, Society

This Russian "GAZ" lorry blew up right near the appartment building. Probably it was also revenged for parking on the sidewalks, like this Toyota suv, though this time they got it

bit over the edge and paid with the broken house front windows thanks to the blast wave. The firefighter thinks that this is a good shot for his cell phone cam.

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This is GAZ-51, it was one of the most popular trucks during World War 2. Not much of them survived till nowadays, most of the survivors are rusting on some backyards or

dumps. But guys from one Russian car design lab have got a dream of reviving one of those legendary WW2 heroes and making a stylish 300hp hotrod truck out of it.

Categories Funny, Photos, Society, Technology

In most of Russian cities this GAZ mini buses are the most common means of people transportation. Millions of them run on the Russian streets carrying people. The GAZ buses are used because they are extremely cheap, new vehicle costs only about $4000 and this cost is covered in two months. Most of the drivers are migrants from the Southern ex-Soviet countries (Azerbajan, Armenia etc) even sometimes without a proper driver's license and they all get the

share of the daily amount they earn with this mini-bus so they often make real races with each other to pickup the passengers from the bus-stops. Russian people realize all the dangers of such transportation and often hate it but there is no really other alternative - only big public buses which you have to wait up to 30 minutes on the bus-stop while those small things come each second minute, so people use it..

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Categories Photos, Technology

This is Chrysler Sebring, an American car from late 90s. And on the pictures below the new

Russian GAZ "Volga" car which is going to be on Russian market from the next year:

Categories Culture, Exclusive, History, Photos, Science, Technology

How about the compilation of the rare Russian cars that even common Russian people that live in Russia had probably never seen

before? Hand picked examples of Russian automobile industry are presented in this article for your viewing pleasure.

Experimental modification of Volga - Gaz-24-95 landrover 1

Categories History, Photos, Technology

In USSR Gaz-24 (Volga) was a dream of every soviet citizen. This luxurious automobile was being produced in Gorkovsky car factory for the middle and upper classes in 70-s and 80-s. Also it was widely used as a taxi cab. But almost nobody knows, that in 1973-74 was developed the experimental modification of Volga -

Gaz-24-95, which had all-wheel drive and other elements, turned it into the real and unique landrover with good cross-country capacity. It is known, that there were produced only 5 copies and one of them was the property of Leonid Illich Brezhnev (old soviet leader). Some photos after the jump.

Categories Exclusive, Photos

When you can't afford a simple cabrio or when it's simply not enough seats

for all your friends you can order a Russian van cabrio from GAZ.

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