Broken down Moskvitch, Russian automobile, left on the Krestovskiy Pereulok and Prospect Mira in northern Moscow in 1991, months before the end of the Soviet Union.
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Chuck Nacke / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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5050 x 3488 px | 42.8 x 29.5 cm | 16.8 x 11.6 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
13 June 1991Location:
Krestovskiy Pereulok, Prospect Mira, Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist RepublicsMore information:
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Broken down Moskvitch, Russian automobile, left on the Krestovskiy Pereulok and Prospect Mira in northern Moscow in 1991, months before the end of the Soviet Union. Krestovskiy Pereulok is on the South side of the Rizhsky public market, once the largest public market in Moscow. The Russian Moskvitch, produced in Moscow, Soviet Union and latter in Izhevsk, Russia from1946 to 2001 by several companies. Russians considered it to be a large family car. It was sold in the U.K. and several European countries from 1969 until 1976. One UK consumer’s association publication described the Moskvitch in 1973 as “Dangerously Unsafe.” Part of the Mosvich factory reopened in 2005 as a joint venture between Renault, the French automaker, and the city of Moscow. After the Russian invasion of the Ukrainian in 2022, Renault sold their interests to the Moscow government. Because of Western sanctions in response to the war the Russian car maker can no longer get foreign parts to make Automobiles.