The Lada Niva has long been a favorite here at Jalopnik. Despite being born into the Soviet Union where cars weren’t…

In a city like Moscow, where flashy armored vehicles and flouting traffic laws is plenty common for the city’s…

Back in the 1960s, Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev claimed there was a secret project going on deep in the…

I’m a big fan of vehicles that can continue to sell without major updates for many years. You see this in…

From across a table crowded with wine bottles, my friend, Mitya Sokolov, announces that he’s flying to the middle of…

Among a sea of rubber-necking passersby, a woman from Bulgaria stops dead in her tracks, and some Polish men in a…

It’s the early 1990s. A Toyota Sprinter is wedged half-way onto a cargo ship. Its rear axle floats in the air,…

For most Soviet citizens, buying a new car was financially impossible. To put things in perspective, Alexander…

On a cold afternoon in late January, I pulled into an industrial side-street of Saint Petersburg. There, I met with…