Russian cars can be encountered in many countries around the world. Sturdy and reliable, they are favored in many regions, from the Middle East to the Caribbean.
Russian cars can be found in many countries around the world.
Above: Russian cars in Havana, Cuba. December 2011.
Above: Russian cars in Havana, Cuba. December 2011.
Reynaldo Perez cleans his Lada 1200 built in 1980 on a street in downtown Havana February 7, 2015. The former Soviet Union began exporting its cheaply built models to Cuba in the 1970s until production began to peter out a decade ago.
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Sturdy and reliable, they are favored in many regions, from the Middle East to the Caribbean.
Above: Russian car in Lima, Peru. October 1, 2014.
Above: Russian car in Lima, Peru. October 1, 2014.
A woman walks past a Moskvich car in front of Fabian Zakharov's Zakharov Auto Parts shop in Hialeah, Florida, February 4, 2015. Zakharov, 40, is Miami's go-to man for visiting Cubans or those with family on the island who need parts for the thousands of Russian-made Ladas and Moskvichs that dominate the country's cracked streets.
Russian cars can mostly be encountered in the former Soviet republics or countries that used to be the allies of the USSR.
Above: Russian cars in Alexandria, Egypt.
Above: Russian cars in Alexandria, Egypt.
Russian Lada in Bellevue, Washington, United States.
The Lada 110 in a Budapest street, near the Keleti Station.
Russian cars are probably the most frequently seen remnant of the Soviet past in the former republics of the USSR.
Above: Russian car in Riga, Latvia.
Above: Russian car in Riga, Latvia.
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Russian-made Volga in Mayfair, London, UK.
Inside a GAZ 21 Volga.
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A green Russian car drives down the street in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
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A Russian car in Armenia.
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Kim Il Sung (waving from the car) drives down the Stalin Allee in East Berlin in a Russian-made automobile.
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A Russian-made Niva seen in the movie 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' (2013).
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The sturdy qualities of Russian cars are also appreciated in some Western European countries, such as Italy.
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Russian UAZ in Italy.
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In 1999, several Italian enthusiasts created an association called UAZ Italia which united the fans of that particular automobile brand in the country.
