– Do you know this world? (Old photos of the Soviet history).

1936, the first four ZIS 101 Soviet limousines were manufactured. The first serial model was presented to Josef Stalin.

Old Soviet photograph of DniproGES in 1947, work belonged to the Soviet government.

In May, 1972, U.S. President Richard Nixon was expected to visit Moscow. Before the visit, the Soviet ambassador in the United States Anatoly Dobrynin confidentially suggested to Richard Nixon that Leonid Brezhnev would be happy to receive a Cadillac Eldorado as a gift. The car was manufactured by special order within three days. On the fourth day the Cadillac for Brezhnev was delivered to Moscow by an American military transport aircraft.

Президент США Джимми Картер и Генеральный секретарь ЦК КПСС Леонид Брежнев подписывают договор ОСВ-II. 18 июня 1979, Вена.

In the mid 1970s, Leonid Brezhnev acquired a black Rolls Royce Silver Shadow and a gold-and-brown Citroen Maserati high-performance coupe. According to some estimates, Brezhnev’s collection consisted of 49 to 324 cars. Photo: the Rolls Royce Silver Shadow exhibited in Paris.

US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachov at the first Summit in Geneva, Switzerland.
Date 19 November 1985