• @Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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    132 years ago

    So it turns out there is a gigantic museum of various vehicles and machinery in Ekatirenburg (formerly Sverdlovsk). It houses, among other things, an incredible collection of Soviet cars, motorbikes and other things. For example - Soviet racecars. Turns out, not only there were numerous designs of those in USSR, but they were being designed and manufactured in Estonia. Does Estonia sound like a place that could be making top-end racecars nowadays? Yeah.

    The other neat part is the collection of automobiles for Soviet government officials - various Chaika models and similair designs. Including one with a fully-armoured capsule inside the vehicle, and a model that was used to transport Gagarin to Kremlin after his flight (probably not the car though).