Car Museum

PSA and GM: Two Giants of the Automotive Industry
The story of the French and American automotive groups: brands, mergers, and technological breakthroughs

Volkswagen SP2 - Brazil's challenge to rational Germans
The story of a model that fit into no segment, yet managed to outlive its own era

NAMI-076: the tractor that was ahead of its time
How a promising logging truck proved too complex for its era

Truck with "Rear" Steering: ZIL-132S Project
A four-wheel drive all-terrain vehicle on pneumatic tires passed tests, but remained an experiment

ZIL-112S: a rare motorsport legend
A fiberglass monocoque, a V8 with up to 300 hp, and 230 km/h - ZIL's ambitious experiment

Legends of Soviet Roads: The Main Cars of the USSR
Affordability, status, and popular nicknames: what the cars of the Soviet country were like

UralZIS-355M: the ideal workhorse of an era
A vehicle of the virgin lands, construction sites, and off-road routes that outlived its time

MAZ-532 - The Lost Legend of Soviet Off-Road
How a unique 8×8, which didn't find its place in the planned economy, was created in Minsk in the late 1950s

"Samara" and "Moskvich": the main auto rivalry of the late USSR
How two key models of the 80s became symbols of competition and different understandings of the "people's car"

What the negotiations between the USSR and FIAT about the overhead valve engine concealed
Rejection of know-how and consequences that slowed down the export of the "kopeyka"

Vehicles of the Moscow Olympics: from the Volga to Mercedes
A unique vehicle fleet: rare models and special versions

Right-Hand Drive the Soviet Way: Unusual GAZ-24 "Volgas"
How export cars returned to the USSR and became a symbol of special status

Why the "truck in reverse" MAZ-520V did not survive
The story of an unusual truck tractor that broke conventional ideas about trucks

"Volga" with automatic transmission: one of the 700 released copies is up for sale
A rare GAZ-21 "Volga" with an automatic transmission is looking for a new owner in Yekaterinburg

ZAZ-1105 "Dana": a station wagon from the USSR that never became mass-produced
Why an experiment that looked promising on paper could not withstand reality