In the 53rd year at the Gorky Automobile Plant. Molotova decided to develop a fully new model of a passenger car, which would replace on the conveyor outdated by the standards of world automotive mods, the legendary M-20 "Victory". The created design team under the leadership of A. Nevzorov at the end of 53 years began to develop the machine. The designer development of "Ford" was a strong impact on the development of the body of a new model - the "progenitor" of gas. The design of the car was developed by Lev Eremeev.
In 1955, the state tests of three "Volga" samples began on May 3 - two with automatic transmission and one with mechanical. Part of the test was mileage Moscow - Crimea and back. Volga must pass where the "victory" was held, and the tests have shown that it even surpasses its predecessor on passability.
Starting from the earliest prototypes, the "Volga" hood was decorated with a figurine frozen in a dynamic pose of a deer. The choice of this animal as the emblem had deep heraldic roots - deer has been depicted on the coat of arms of Nizhny Novgorod. Stylized evapoate figure had traditional cars for animal emblems and pose.
The deer figure had some differences depending on the year of the car's release, and among the hand drawn images of prototypes there are those on which the deer is depicted having separate horns and a higher degree of detail compared to serial.
On all the "Volga" with a regular installed "deer" from the factory, in addition to the statuette itself, there was a long cast longitudinal molding, which is a sculptural continuation of the legs of the deer, transparent (not red) plastic stand and the so-called "boat" - a pointed end of the molding Standing standing.
From the very appearance of "Volga", its evaporate figure was very popular; Often there were cases of embezzlement of a statuette with a car hood for the purpose of selling or peculiar "collectibles." Therefore, as well as because of its high costs and - the main thing - trauma, already at the end of the fifties figurine, the deer stopped putting on export cars and a taxi, replacing it with a "drop" - a trauma-safe streamlined figure of an elongated shape. In 1962, all the decorations from the "Volga" hood were removed - and a deer with a stand, and a drop, and a longitudinal molding of two parts.
Modifications "Volga" are divided into three main model ranges. In the surprise: "With the star", "shark fall" and "whale mustache." In fact, the plant has changed the base model index four times. Moreover, at the beginning of the production of a new modification every time a significant number of so-called "transitional" models was produced.
The first serial "Volga" was painted nitroemal and were produced from Belgian steel.
GAZ 21 (1 series)
GAZ-21 "Volga" - the Soviet car of the middle class, produced at the Gorky automotive factory from 1956 to 1970. Factory index model M-21, later (since 1965) - GAZ-21.
Release cars from 1956 to November 1958 received the name "First Series" (as well as the "first issue", "with a star").
On October 10, 1956, the conveyor was gone (and most likely they came out of a minor experienced production) three first serial "Volga" GAZ-21.
In just 1956, only five copies were released. Mass production began only next year, approximately from March-April. The main feature of the interior of the first series is the instrument panel without finishing with leather or spraying and with a "low" veneer of the receiver with horizontally loudspeakers, covered with a metal grille. With that, such it remained until the end of 1958, that is, after the transition to the facing of type II series. In total, about 30 thousand modifications of the 1st series modifications were released.
Myth first: GAZ M-21 "dismissed" with Ford Mainline (myth)
Many of the Soviet cars had for example, the first Gorky models of GAZ-A and GAZ-M1 were close relatives of American cars Ford, the VAZ "Kopeika" was a modified version, and created on the basis of French SIMCA-1308 on the basis of French. The degree of "kinship" in all these cars was different, however, the vowel and unlawful copying of constructive solutions and even the design of some foreign cars really existed. That is why many motorists believe that the Volga of the first generation was also created on the basis of a car of foreign production - and if it specifically, it allegedly "dismissed" with the Ford Mainline of 1954 of the model year.
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In addition, other American sedans of those years are indicated as "sources" - for example, Chevrolet Bel Air and Plymouth Savoy. Indeed, these American cars, along with some other classmates, were carefully studied by the constructors of the Volga, and this practice is generally accepted in the world since the beginning of the twentieth century. However, the purpose of such a close acquaintance was not blind copying of the design, but a comparison of these machines - including the "full-time" testing with prototypes of the future "twenty-first". The Ford and Chevrolet models mentioned were even purchased by the USSR - in order to disassemble and how to explore the automatic transmission, which until that time on Soviet cars was not applied.
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In the exterior of the Volga, you can find some common elements with the "Americans", but we are not talking about direct imitation, but only about rethinking the current designs of the design - the so-called "aerostyle", which is typical of the overseas designer school.
Moreover, the technique of Volga was significantly different from Ford and Chevrolet according to a simple reason - due to a certain unification of the aggregates of the transmission and the chassis with the former Gorky models like victory and winters. That is why the designer-designer Lion Eremeev can not be accused of plagiarism, nor in direct borrowing of other people's decisions. Volga Outside was similar to Ford Mainline no less and no more than another modern car for those years. After all, if you wish, our car can find a lot in total in appearance not only with the American sedans of one model year, but also with the French Simca Vedette 1954, the English Standard Vanguard 1955 and the Australian Holden Special 1956.
Pre-production specimens in some details differed from the serial M-21. Pay attention to the solution of the radiator lattice - not the "star", as in the first series, and the "shark fall", as on the second!
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In addition, the prototype M-21 at number 1 was collected by hand in early 1954, while the "live" copy of the Ford Mainline appeared on Gaza not earlier than the middle of the same 1954, and his tests began only in November.
Myth Second: Volga collected abroad (though)
It sounds amazing, but this is a fact: the Volga really produced abroad! Assembly (or rather, the seized) of cars called Scaldia-Volga in 1960 began the Belgian importer - the company SCALDIA-VOLGA S.A., which imported Soviet cars to Europe. The Belgian assembly Volga was different from the Soviet Machine "Heart": under the hood instead of the usual 4-cylinder engines ZMZs stood more economical diesel engines of several stamps - Indenor-Peugeot, Perkins and Rover.
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Belgian firm SCALDIA-VOLGA S.A. carried out not only imports, but also "dieselization" of Volga
Such a move was to strengthen the interest of maternity Europeans to a spacious, but voracious Soviet car. And in order to "consolidate the effect", Scaldia even decided to order a small "restyling" of the Volga Italian Body Atelier Ghia, but almost at the same time the gas itself introduced the car of the so-called second series, which was quite significantly different from the "Star" externally. The scale of the assembly production of the Volga in Belgium was meager: just 1967 gathered 166 "twenty first" with diesel engines.
Export modifications "Twenty-first" visually could be distinguished on a richer body finish. Depending on the series, the power of exporting Volga was higher than usual by 5-10 hp. and ranged from 75 to 85 hp
Based on technical documentation M-21 in China, "Red East" - DongfangHong BJ760 car. Technically, he almost completely repeated the Soviet prototype, however, outside the machine from the subway was noticeably different from the Volga. In the period from 1959 to 1969, only about 600 Dongfanshunov was made, which was due to a significant number of manual labor and not the massability of the production of this car.
In the left-sided movement countries supplied "right-handed" Volga in export performance, but Soviet production.
Myth Three: Luzhny Body (Myth)
One of the most sustainable myths associated with the first Volga is the congestion of body parts, in which many former and current owners "twenty first" believe, as well as fans of cars with a deer on the hood.
In fact, until 1962, for a number of reasons for processing welding seams and alignment of external body panels, tin was used. This allowed to get rid of technological defects with a relatively simple and rapid way. Having found a plot of tin with body repair, in the USSR and began to believe in the Volga's tinny body, which explained its high resistance to corrosion.
Volga did not strongly rust both due to gentle operation and due to the use of the body parts of the Belgian metal, as well as its high-quality processing, which provided phosphating and double priming by immersion.
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Starting with the so-called "third series" for the leveling of body elements in Gorky began to use the plastic brand TPF.
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American Style: For an additional fee of the color of the body, the Volga could be two-color. But the durability of LCP and metal did not affect
Another popular misconception is associated with a metal thickness - in the Union it was believed that in this parameter "twenty-first" to compare it if not with a tank, then at least with a truck. However, in reality, only the bottom and roof stumbled from a two-millionth metal, while the thickness of the remaining body elements of the Volga oscillated from 0.9 to 1.2 mm. Yes, and the cutting mass of the car was not "almost two tons", according to many contemporaries, and 1,460 kg.
Myth Fourth: Gagarin had its own Volga (though)
In 1961, the world's first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin as a reward for the conquest of Cosmos received as a gift from the Gorkovsky Automobile Plant's team with a 70-strong engine. However, from the usual "twenty-first" of the second series "Gagarinsky" Volga black with the state number of 78-78 mod differed except that the light blue color of the cabin. Moreover, chrome nameplates with the inscription "Volga" from the later release on the front wings of the car Gagarin appeared in 1963, when he visited the Gorky Automobile Plant. After the death of Yuri Alekseevich in 1968, the car with a mileage of about 90,000 kilometers since 1971 was kept in a glass garage specially created for her near the House-Museum of the First Soviet Cosmonaut in the city of Gagarin of the Smolensk region.
Volga was far from the only car Yuri Gagarin. However, he quite actively used his "twenty-first"
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But the people's artist Yuri Nikulin owned not a sedan, and the GAZ-22 model, which is a favorite of millions in order of exception in the first half of the sixties sold after Nikulin argued the need to acquire the "universal" Volga. After all, unlike the sedan, in the private hands "twenty-second" it was possible to get no earlier than the beginning of the seventies - and then in a pretty sweated form, being written off from any state institution.
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Yuri Nikulin was an exception to the rules - he got into the personal use of the GAZ-22 wagon
Myth Fifth: Six-Cylinder Motor (Myth)
American cars of this class were equipped with six and eight-cylinder engines. Therefore, there was a legend that the six-cylinder engine was supposed to appear on the "twenty-first", but ... it did not work out.
However, another layout was originally selected for the Volga - four-cylinder, with the upper position of the valves, a hemispherical combustion chamber and the timing chain drive. The running tests showed that prototype of this 2.5-liter motor is not too economical and not enough. In addition, the specific design of the head of the cylinder block imposed certain technological restrictions, because of which it was decided to use another motor. If the first versions (until mid-1957) used the Lower Vedasy engine of GAZ-21B, which was an upgraded version of the Victory Motor, then later serial cars were equipped with a UMZ-21A supernklap engine, which was originally created for "half-timer" GAZ-56, which and so I did not go to mass production.
The designers remained correctly "rolled" on the victory of the four-cylinder scheme for a simple reason - it was believed that, given the class and the appointment of the car, it was enough for such an engine with a capacity of about 70 hp, while six-cylinder engines remained the prerogative of the representative winter and gas trucks 51/52.
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But about 600 of the first generation Volga at the factory was equipped with ... V-shaped "eight"! True, not massively and serial, but as part of preparation. By fulfilling the order of the KGB of the USSR, in the bitter installed under the hood "twenty-first" engine V8 from, which developed an impressive 195 hp Thanks to this, the Gorky "Dogonalka" accelerated to 100 km / h in 17 seconds (against 34 C at a standard Volga), and its maximum speed reached 170 km / h.
Myth Sixth: Automatic Transmission (True)
In the early fifties, the chief designer of the plant Andrei Alexandrovich Lipgart was engaged in the design of the future Volga. For the first time in domestic practice, on the idea of \u200b\u200bthe designer, the new model was supposed to obtain an automatic transmission. That is why after the translation of Lipgarta to Uralzis, Gorky Automobile Plant purchased Chevrolet Bel Air with a two-stage automatic machine and Ford Mainline with a more modern three-band transmission. The tests have shown that the Fordovskaya Ford-O-Matic can be seized with the Volga engine, which, according to Henry Ford, was developed by BorgWarner.
In the early fifties, Ford actively advertised its automatic transmission
In the summer of 1955, the test run towards the Black Sea showed the "vitality" of the Soviet "automaton" created in the image and similarity of the "Folds", but structurally adapted under the four-cylinder engine.
Why did such a transmission have ever met such a transmission on mass machines? Despite the delusion that all the frequencies of the first series (the so-called "star") were equipped with "automatic", in fact, only about 800 cars of 1957-1958 received this innovation, while the remaining 98% of the "stars" of this period were completed by the usual three-step Mechanics. According to some information, approximately the same car with "automatic" was released in 1959.
On November 21, 1953, the constructor Alexander Mikhailovich Nevzorov began to develop a new Soviet car-21 project.
The car "Volga" GAZ-21, as well as "victory", has long been a legend. This car is the time of spy passions and fashionable, but forbidden in those years of rock and roll. Remember the film "Beware of the car"? His protagonist Yuri Delubkin stoles the 21st Volga ...
In November 1953, the designer Alexander Nevzorov and designer Lion Eremeev just started working on a new car, and next year his first experienced samples were collected. To be accurate, the factory code index was initially denoted gas-M-21, and only later (since 1965) as GAZ-21. They were equipped with an experimental topless engine with a hemispherical combustion chamber and camshaft chain drive (he showed himself not so hot, as in mass production did not go).
For a new car, two transmissions were developed - automatic and mechanical. Both were three-speed. The main transfer was first not hypoid, as on models released after 1957, and conical. The car had an independent front suspension with lever hydraulic shock absorbers. Rear, ordinary case, independent of longitudinal semi-elliptic springs. Tires 6.70-15. From the hood of the car soaked chrome deer.From him in the center of the hood for the windshield was a wide molding. Facing a radiator with 10 vertical holes. The rear lights included overall lights, brake and rotation pointers - three in one red scatteer and reverse lamp in steel chrome salary.
"Volga" began to equip the three-band radio radio as standard equipment. The exception was the modification of the taxi - 21a (later 21t). On a taxi instead of a solid front sofa, two separate chairs were put. It was not in these modifications and cigarette lighter. The big round clock with the inscription in "Made in the USSR" was installed on all versions of the car.
On May 3, 1955, government tests of three "Volga" samples began - two with automatic transmission and one with mechanical. Part of the test was mileage Moscow - Crimea and back. The magazine "Spark" wrote in July: "In a few dozen kilometers from Simferopol, in the territory of the state farm" Path to communism ", in the thick of the shrubs, there is a clay abandoned settlement. The unnatural seemed to see a beautiful, born for high speeds a car climbing in deep ripples . After scattering water columns, it jumps the swimstered ditches, it is cleaned from suction sand. "Volga" must pass where the "victory" was held, and the tests showed that it even exceeds his predecessor on passability. "
The production of GAZ 21 on the conveyor was timed to the World Festival of Youth and Students, who was held in Moscow in the summer of 1957. On the "Volga" of the first release, the facing was performed in front of the same style as on the "victory" of the last series (1955-1958) - three horizontal chromed timber. The upper timber was laid through the hood, and the bottom closed along the edges of the turns. The composition was crowned five-pointed star. The car enthusiast, who did not particularly distinguish modifications, said: "Volga with a star."
The appearance of this cladding on the machines of the first series is a separate story. At the obligatory show of experienced cars in the Kremlin, the design of the front of the car did not like Marshal Zhukov. A urgent directive was given to the plant from Moscow: to remake. Redued. Star Marshal could not come to taste. In 1958, when the commander got into opal, a new directive came - to remake. By that time, about 31 thousand "Volga with the star" was released.
Own engine car received only in 1957. It was a topless motor. In 1962, Volga becomes a car of the 60s. For this, there were enough cosmetic changes. The body itself remained the same. But his silhouette lost the heavyness of previous modifications. Fangs disappeared from bumpers. The bumpers themselves became more elegant. Chrome now covered only the upper part of them, and the lower, apron, painted in the color of the body. The front bumper in terms of acquired wedge. In the facing of the radiator instead of 16 wide holes, 36 narrow appeared. On the Slaf slang, she was called "whale cleaner."
With the facing, new overall lights were integrated on the sidewall of the wing. The rear lights have lost steel salary, together with the cataphot began to cast from plastics. A new license plate lighting lantern on the trunk has acquired the shape of a soaring seagull.
The hood was no longer installed a longitudinal molding and a deer figure, which was the cause of serious injuries when driving on pedestrians, but more often he became a victim of vandalism. The new emblem on the hood was borrowed from the "Seagull". With the only difference that its chrome salary had two horizontal wings. The pompousness of the past years was replaced by ease and swiftness. The car visually began to be perceived as a completely new one.
The famous deer, who adorned the "Volga" hood of the first and second series, was not used in the final series, which is explained not only by concern about the safety of pedestrians. He became a real magnet for thieves that broke the deer from cars. Therefore, because of its high costs and is the main thing - trauma, already at the end of the fifties figurine, the deer ceased to put on export cars and a taxi, replacing it with a "drop" - a trauma-safe streamlined figure of an elongated shape.
In 1962, all the decorations from the "Volga" hood were removed - and a deer with a stand, and a drop, and a longitudinal molding of two parts. There is information that traffic police threatened the owners of the first second editions to remove deer during the passage of inspection.
There is another reason: during the rain, water flows, hitting the deer, flew straight on the windshield, which made it difficult to review while driving. But the owners of GAZ-21 still sazed deer on the hoods of their cars. They bought them in auto parts stores.
The changes were undergoing anterior suspension - instead of lever shock absorbers (victory scheme) began to install telescopic. The suspension has become tougher. The fabric ceiling upholstery was replaced with washing - from artificial leather. The base model received the designation 21l - precisely such a dedication of Dima Semitzvetov "Beware of the car").
In the same 1962, the model range was replenished with a 5-seater GAZ-22 universal with a horizontal rear door. With a folded rear sofa, the car could transport large loads with a mass of 400 kg. At its base, the ambulance carrier was produced - GAZ-22B.
In 1965, Eldar Ryazanov removes the "Beware of the car". And at the same time, the Gorky plant carried out the last modernization of 21 models. Soccerons were strengthened in the car, more efficient heater and wipers were installed. The hubs of the front wheels began to be equipped with roller bearings instead of balls. The base model with a 75-strong engine received index 21p, taxis - 21t, station wagon - 22V, ambulance - 22d. Top models of steel 21US and 21C. The price of the most expensive export modification 21c (85 hp) was equal in 1965 by 6455 rubles. The car with a two-color body cost already at 270 rubles more expensive.
The last "Volga" descended from the conveyor on July 15, 1970. This car modifications 21V with a body number 334312, painted in anthracite color, took a place in the exposition of the factory museum. Since 1956 to 1970, 638875 GAZ-21 and GAZ-22 cars were released.
Yes, even such models have been. True, all this was in vain. Even the right steering wheel and the lack of a star on the lattice did not make a "Volga" popular in England, and in the West, in general. The Belgian Importer Scaldia Volga even experimented and installed under the hoods of GAZ-21, economical diesel engines from Peugeot and Rover, but it did not add a popularity.
The case, in many respects, was that Volga was somewhat large and voracious for Western countries. And such advantages like smoothness and comfortable riding in bad roads, they were not particularly valued there, since there were no problems with it. But her obvious advantages were appreciated by people from the closest climates of the Scandinavian countries, as well as from Greece, which "famous" with their bad roads.
GAZ-21, a little converted by the Italian car Atelier Ghia. The greatest changes touched the grille grille. It is unlikely that the Italians will take over the improvement of modern Russian cars, and "Volga" at that time honored even such honor:
To speak as a whole, the "Volga", despite the pretty good reviews, did not achieve much popular in the West. The reasons were very different. One of them was the so unbelievable star on the grille of the radiator, which hints at the origin of the car. Not all Western countries treated well to the USSR in those years, since they saw a communist threat in it.
It is no secret that when a collision with a car, most injuries are injured from hitting his front. In this case, the severity of damage directly depends on the shape and relief of the elements of the body, which are there.
Fortunately, the design has long passed the fashion for traumatic excesses in the design of the exterior, which mercilely crossed people in the past century. Yes, and materials from which the body of the car is now produced, not so durable as in the last century.
Figurines on the hood
It is enough to look at the figure of the rifle deer with raised hooves, adorning the hood of the famous "Volga" GAZ-21 to imagine the severity of the injury to those who attacked his iron horns.
By the way, horned pitfalls have risen on our ocean. American pedestrian obviously suffered more often than ours - after all, who just did not plunge into the past century on the hoods of Lincolnov, Bewikov, Chryslers and other overseas cars - gods, people, beasts, birds (mostly eagles), and even rockets and aircraft.
Hidden headlights
Pop-Up Headlights or "Hidden Headlights", which came from the body, first appeared in 1936 on Alfa Romeo 8c PinInfarina Berlinetta. This "chip" arrived for a long time in the global aircraft, and one of the last models in which it was used was Lotus Esprit 2004.
Most often, such headlights had square hulls, which were sticking out of the hood, disturbing the aerodynamics of the body and causing pedestrians for those arising on the path. On some cars, as, for example, in the Italian sports car, CIZETA V16T, Pop-Up headlights was installed in two rows, and then they turned into a killer machine.
Separate fog
In the entire history of the world's auto industry, on which part of the body, individual fog drawn was not installed. The safest option in terms of security for a pedestrian is when they settled onto the roof.
But most often, yellow lanterns were attached to the radiator or bumper, and in the case of hitting a person, they were most often crashed, causing victims of additional injuries. And if now you will not see this accessory on such regular fog, then this accessory is still safely used in the "garage tuning" of old SUVs.
Winches and kenguryatniki
Thank God, modern auto industry got rid of other traumatic elements of the body - pointed visors above the headlights, fangs on the bumper, "shark fins" on the hood or wings, convex and angular radiator lattices, etc. It would seem that the problem was solved, but not here - That was.
With the auspiece manufacturers, guided first of all the spirit of healthy commerce and relying on the tastes of motorists, almost from the dawn of the motorism epochs adorned cars with figures logo, called "mascots" - from the French "Mascotte", which meant an amulet or talisman. People like symbolism - hundreds of various figures of animals, people and all sorts of artifacts were crowned with hoods of countless hundreds of auto-brands of America and Europe -. In the Soviet car industry, which did not spoiled a variety of brands and models, this was considered rather like alien to rational socialist household luxury, so we have known mascots - only two and turned around ... most people know only the famous Gas deer, but undeservedly undervalued as solid and expressive Jazais Bear!
According to the legend, the city of Yaroslavl arose at the site of the battle of Prince Yaroslav Wise with a bear, whom he was impatient on him who did not appreciate the prospects for creating the vertical authorities of the winsted local men. The prince slammed the bear secrete, and to this day on the coat of arms of the city there is a brown teddy bear standing on the hind legs with a secretion on his shoulder, which, in general, is somewhat strange. As they say, Dantes got, and for some reason Pushkin ...
Shortly before the 1917 revolution, Yaroslavl became a car city: as part of the program for creating an auto industry in the Russian Empire, the forces of the Imperial command and investments of Industrialist Lebedev founded a factory, which, in fact, did not work because of the well-known political events ... A nationalized enterprise began Or a clear activity only in 1925 - the production of three-tunnel trucks started, then more load-lifting models, dump trucks, buses, tracked tractors and other techniques joined them.
The Blessing Great Patriotic War did not stop building plans for the future afternoon restoration of the country - she needed heavy trucks with a lifting capacity of much higher than five tons. Despite the height of war and the release of military products, the State Defense Committee demanded from the chief designer of the Yaroslavl Plant George Kokin and the chief engineer Viktor Ospchugov to force the process of training the side truck-semitonnik in the form of an experienced model under the working name I-14.
When, on June 19, 1945, the State Committee of Defense and its Chairman Stalin in the Kremlin demonstrated promotional samples of the new Soviet equipment, the country's head stopped near the Yaroslavl truck attracted by a large sparkling figure on his hood. The head of the experimental workshop of the plant Viktor Samsonov, who accompanied the car, told the leader of the legend about the duel of Yaroslav Wise with a bear - Stalin was impressed and gave an order to the addict of the automotive industry to Stepan Akopov to put a bear and serial cars. What, I must say, the latter was not at all, because the "newborn Maskot" fited badly into the tactics of rationalization and mass.
The fact is that the "Stalinist" bear was absolutely not like the one who later stood on the hoods of the YAAZ trucks! The first bear, made by the Factory Manager of the Victor Plant Orders, was clearly too detailed for such a simple and rational thing as the logo of the truck - especially in a difficult time for the country! The first sample of the Maskota possessed a textured eye with the imitation of fur, clearly cast for cohesions on the paws and other trifles. In addition, the bear had a specific appearance and proportion - excessively big and tilted down the head with a few cartoon outlines, attached to the figure clumsy, as well as the dubious position of the front paw raised - to her the bear clearly did not try to point into a bright future, and as if she was sick and carefully torn some Drying ...
Fortunately, our famous motorist, designer artist, Soviet AvtoDizain, and Popular Writer Yuri Aronovich Dolmatovsky, who worked in those years at the NATO, was taken by the conversion of the conveyor bear. And the task that stood in front of him was more difficult than it seems, for the bear is not an easy "harvesting" for the Soviet automotive symbol. The fact is that the bear can easily be associated with force, confidence and aggressive pressure, however, such a concept would be good in the West, but the clawed beast on the punch or ready for the throw - yes on a peaceful Soviet car? "Will Russian wars want?"
But if not power and aggression - then what? Not with the barrel of honey they are ... As a result, the bear received a "half-breed" pose, attached by the harmonious dynamism of the massive figure of the Taiga host. The fall of the beast remained closed, and the claws on the paws are intentionally not allocated - thanks to this, the Yaroslavl Bear is felt although peace-loving, but strong and definitely knowing where he goes.
The smooth surface of the wool without a texture relief of the fur looks a skin of a fusion and luminous animal. And at the same time it was easier in production than casting sculptures with small details, although it still delivered problems to the factory leadership, to allocate material and working resources to the "trinket". Even in the "optimized" view, the bear after casting had to pass the stage of manual finishing, after which it was sent to the electropolitan - the process at which the part was descended into the electrolyte with the connection of the electrodes and the current transmission. The thin layer of metal dissolved, removing the risks and scratches. At the hood, the bear was mounted through an intermediate stand-panel, to which he was fastened with three bolts with M6 thread - for three support paws.
The two identical bears find it difficult - their production, in fact, was manual and alone. For him, the "reform" and the use of various aluminum-based alloys is also characterized by a bear, though he kept in the area of \u200b\u200bone kilogram, but still constantly walked there, which is unknown mass production details.
The figure was the pride of truck drivers - she was holly and cherished, rubbed with polishing pastes and sought to grab with them, leaving his retirement or dismissal, put on the trucks of other brands, even crawled sometimes from each other - what's wrong with the sin ... those who are not Could receive a scarce accessory, tried (and sometimes very successful!) Make it yourself in handicrafts - in the form of the original in the clay chill was made aluminum casting, which was then grinding and polished manually ...
