Oleg Starikov, an amateur car designer-enthusiast from the village of Ostrovtsy near Moscow, is known to all local technology lovers (and they can safely include the majority of the male population of the village, young and old), who jokingly often call him “Samodelkin” or “Kulibin”. This name is also familiar to readers of our magazine Read more…
Winter operation of all-terrain vehicles in the northern regions of our country places a number of specific requirements on it. So, to reduce resistance to movement, the machine must have minimal weight or exert little pressure on the supporting surface and at the same time, to provide the necessary traction, have good adhesion of the Read more…
The Pegasus automobile studio, which builds cars of the same name, was founded in Yaroslavl in 2003 by Vadim Shustrov. At that time, he had just graduated from Yaroslavl Polytechnic University. But he had experience of close communication with the guys from the MAMI and NAMI design bureaus. He was inspired to create his own Read more…
Any snowmobile, including amphibians, has a relatively low load-carrying capacity, and therefore their use is fully justified only under certain operating conditions, which will become clear from what is said below. Our amphibian is a combination of a pleasure boat and a ski. The shape of its bottom is designed for planing on water and Read more…
It is not easy to surprise residents of the city of Tolyatti with a new car. On their streets they are the first to meet promising models from the Volzhsky Automobile Plant and new products from foreign companies. But wherever the miniature yellow car with the cheerful name “Kolobok” appears, it invariably attracts the attention Read more…
The FOX roadster project was born in 2004 from a youthful idea to build an open sports car with an original appearance to satisfy personal design ambitions. Back in my school years, I was involved in car racing and was a multiple winner of Russian championships. He studied at the Yaroslavl Polytechnic University at the Read more…
Simplicity and originality are the distinctive features of the “hummingbird” microcar. It was built by young technicians from the “Eternal Search” club in Kharkov. Not a cloud in the sky, warm. In such weather it is pleasant to walk around the outskirts of the city. You open the door to the balcony where you keep… Read more…
Remembering the history of the creation of the snowmobile, I realized how long ago my passion for designing equipment began. Even in my youth (and now I’m already a pensioner), I received the specialty of a mechanic and independently mastered welding and other metalworking specialties. But, to be honest, I couldn’t “boast” of my design Read more…
How much mystery was associated with this unusual machine! Journalists called it nothing more than a “nameless car.” And this is understandable – the designers were in no hurry to reveal their plans, talk about their searches, successful discoveries until a real fundamental solution crystallized. On the streets or roads you can often see cars Read more…
The history of the creation of the all-terrain vehicle is quite long. First, I began to adapt the Niva-2121 for movement on our off-road terrain – I installed it on the largest wheels from a Jeep. We rode it with a neighbor (also, by the way, an avid fisherman and hunter), but the cross-country ability Read more…
