BUILD THE ROVER BOYS

BUILD THE ROVER BOYSThree years ago in our lab we design small equipment CUT Novosibirsk Akademgorodok came the eighth-grader Eugene Stepanenko. He brought the model tracked all that they had done at home. Respected the thoroughness of execution of work, the proportionality of parts of the vehicle, the invention in the manufacture of parts. It was felt that the young designer was doing my model with a lot of love n care. Miniature all-terrain vehicle had two electric motor, powered by batteries for the flashlight, and was able to execute multiple commands: move forward and backward, turn in different directions, flashing the Parking lights. And Eugene then said that all his life dreamed of building a real big vehicle, and asked him to write it down in a circle.

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A LARGE TORPEDO

BIG TORPEDOAs a result of mass repressions of 1937 -1938. considerably thinned the ranks of skilled workers, research institutions, including creating new military equipment. With the acute shortage of professional personnel in the USSR in the ongoing struggle “enemies of the people” the country could be without leading experts. In September 1938 at the suggestion of people’s Commissar of internal Affairs USSR L. P. Beria in the NKVD Division was established special design Bureau, renamed in 1939 to the Special technical Bureau of the NKVD of the USSR From July 1941 until its dissolution in may 1953 it was called the 4th special Department of the NKVD (since 1946 — MGB) of the USSR. The main objectives of 4-th special Department were: the use of inmates specialists to perform research and design works on creation of new types of military aircraft, aircraft engines and engines of naval vessels, artillery and ammunition, chemical means of attack and defence, and the procurement of radio communications.

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THE VAZ-2108/2109 SPUTNIK

VAZ-2108/2109 SPUTNIKThe second-stage model of the Volga car was three-door front wheel drive hatchback VAZ-2108 “Sputnik”. The design of the VAZ-2108 was started in may 1977, the launch of a series of fundamentally new for the company and the entire automotive industry VAZ-2108 “Sputnik” (export name — “Samara”) held in late 1984. Three years later, came the five-door version of the hatchback — VAZ-2109, and in the early 1990-ies, four — door sedan VAZ-21099.

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VOLGA CARDI

VOLGA CARDIWhen an artist falls in tough conditions restricting the freedom of his work, this sometimes leads to the most advantageous solutions. For several decades, the designers of the Gorky automobile plant under the new modifications of the car “Volga” as immutable bases are forced to use the frame from released in 1968, the old GAZ-24. Sometimes this leads to rather controversial, but in General, these limitations contribute to the kind of positive conservatism, allowing to maintain the style and visibility of cars Gorky brand.

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