the Project was born thanks to the front-line of the history of jarosławiec retired major Mikhail Nikolayevich Paymer, who in the years of the great Patriotic war was the commander of a battery of rocket launchers “Katyusha” the 72nd missile regiment 336-th division, participated in the battle of Stalingrad and the liberation of the königsberg.
– the fact that Mikhail Nikolayevich served in a very rare species of “Katyusha” – based on car chassis International supplied under lend-lease, – says the head of the club of classical cars “the Bear” and the project “Car of Victory” Andrew Lagutov. – He’s in the battery were four such “Katyusha”. This is the only evidence of the existence of these machines. And there is one picture.
Yaroslavl enthusiasts, burning the idea to restore this “Katyusha”, found the right gear in the US – at us such not to find, because delivered in the Soviet Union there were only about 500 pieces. Well, then, what is called rushed. As in Yaroslavl until 1958 he worked in the Yaroslavl automobile plant (now motor), made, of course, your contribution to the Victory, wanted to see her 75th anniversary to remember and rare products. And along with other remarkable examples of the domestic automotive industry in those years. And although most of them started after the war, the authors of the project also believe their machines to Win, because they were created precisely because of this landmark event and to build industrial might defeated fascism powers.
– on the Second of February 1943 the battle of Stalingrad ended, and already the third of February in the people’s Commissariat of medium machine building is assigned a meeting to which are invited the heads of all our automotive plants, including Yaroslavl, – says Andrey Lagunov. – There is the question, what cars will be produced after the Victory. In the result of Gas have been tasked to work on the car “Victory” and a truck GAZ-51, the plant named after Stalin (later ZIL) – on the ZIS-150, ZIS-151, passenger 3ИС-110, Yaroslavl – over yaz-200, the first domestic diesel truck, why Yaroslavl and is considered the heart of the diesel engine of Russia. Thanks to our victory in the great Patriotic war, we were able to see these cars. They were prepared for production during the war, which allowed immediately after the war to start their serial production. And it so happened that these machines have become the best samples of the domestic automotive industry in its entire history. After that level the cars have somehow failed to create.
to Recreate the legendary GAZ-63 started in January. Recognized parts are not searched except in a landfill. Because the production machine was removed in the late 60s. Items found all the engine and carb have collected.
the participants of the project supported by Foundation of President��TSCA grants to restore about a dozen units of military equipment, including two “Katyusha” on the basis of International and ZIS-151, GAZ-51 and ZIL-131 with the installation of chemical protection of ARS-14, two UAZ-469, unique Yaroslavl tractor yaz-221. Large and very handy, Rybinsk family Rumyantsev, became a member of the project has already been virtually resurrected from oblivion the truck GAZ-63 on the same machine worked for 30 years one of the representatives of the senior generation of a family of Lyudmila Momot, the first female driver and the mechanic in Rybinsk. Left to finish the electrics and the body. But spare parts for this Gas (as well as for other samples of vehicles from the project) was looking for almost in the trash.
– This is a very interesting car – continues Lagutov. – At the Gorky automobile plant in the middle of the war, in 1943, he began his design, and in 1944 appeared the first prototype. It was a four-wheel drive vehicle, unique design, for the domestic automotive history GAZ-63 was one of the key developments.
work on the vehicles of Victory was, and still continues in five sections. But if the collective work of the Rumyantsevs-isolation not hit (they wait out covid-limits all together, in his house and on his land, continuing to recreate the “grandma’s” truck), the plant in the Yaroslavl technical University, where students together with their mentors gathered tractor yaz-221, had to close the former distance learning student mini-“automobile” for more than a month in idle.
But rescue volunteers and professionals from the Yaroslavl enterprises involved in the work and help to finish conceived up to the end. Unfortunately, the workshops for enthusiastic young people, who had to accompany the whole process of restoring an old car, search parts, work with drawings, had to stop. Or rather, move on poslegarantijnoe the time when you will be disassembly-Assembly again. But six vehicles of Victory for the feast will definitely be on the move, and the citizens, especially the veterans on the Victory Day will be able to see them. How it will happen until the authority decides, but that it will be, no doubt.
– the Day of Victory cannot be hit, this festival is impossible to mess up, whatever happened. Just not in the usual format, we’ll celebrate, but in another way, something new has come up, – not optimistic Andrew Lagutov. – It’s not about what form it will take, but the fact that this holiday we have, and he’s one of the most important. The mood is still winning. No matter what, we veterans will definitely wish – we’ll figure out how to do it.
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Restored cars Victory will be exhibits created in the Yaroslavl Museum of cars and BUFLS to participate in Patriotic events, technical and historical subjects and historical-Patriotic motor rally. In addition, yagtu has plans to open a University in specific areas of student learning “the Recovery and restoration of cars.”
meanwhile
the Ninth of may in Yaroslavl convoy of vehicles of the great Patriotic war, rebuilt in the framework of the project “Car of Victory”, the students of cadet College, ensemble of Cossack song “Glass of vodka” and “Pletenka” will congratulate the 10 participants of the great Patriotic war Victory Day.
