Retro fest exhibition of cars in Sokolniki. Oldtimer gallery. Nearest: in September, in October and beyond

On April 29, the Sokolniki Park Museum and the House-Museum project invite guests of the park to the Retro Park family festival: to look into the past 50 and even 150 years ago, to find out what Sokolniki was like in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The festival will open the "Battle of Minds" children's blitz tournament, which will continue the Soviet chess traditions. Exactly 70 years ago, the first Moscow blitz championship took place in Sokolniki Park. Then, in 1947, the winner of the tournament - the future international grandmaster Yuri Averbakh - won a new bike. And this year, under the guidance of an experienced coach, schoolchildren will compete for the SHULZ city bike. Required for the tournament.

The Museum tent with master classes and old board games will be open all day at the Rotunda stage. And in the museum itself, located in the Park Directorate, free excursions for the exhibition “Park of Culture and Fashion. Outfits of the past years in Sokolniki ".

From the Rotunda stage to the Sand Alley, the Antique Flea Market will stretch, prepared by the House-Museum project. The master class from the famous collector Elena Krenzel will be a real journey into the world of vintage and antiques. Elena will share the main secrets of her craft and give recommendations on how to choose antiques on her own and distinguish genuine things from fakes. Registration for the master class.

Until the evening in the Garden of Astronomers, the interactive playground "Games of Our Childhood" will be open, where sports master classes for children will be held. Children will be able to see modern analogues of old games: bilboke and serso, learn to ride a unicycle, play classics and jump over rubber bands.

In the gazebo of the Garden of Astronomers there will be an area with board games, where adults and children can play chess, checkers, dominoes, as well as old pre-revolutionary games. The most active visitors to the interactive platform will have the opportunity to compete for prizes.

The main event of the holiday will be the competition of retro-costume "Defile in the Park" on the stage "Rotunda". Contestants will parade along the main square of Sokolniki Park, accompanied by a brass band. Festival guests will be able to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of several eras and appreciate the outfits that the participants have been preparing for almost 2 months. "Roaring" 20s, "strict" 40s or "free" 70s - who will win? The winners of the competition will receive valuable gifts from the sponsors of the festival.

The brass band "Valery Bukreev's Jazz Band" will perform at the celebration, playing popular melodies of past years. Visitors to the park will have a rare opportunity to plunge into the world of authentic acoustic jazz - music of the twenties and thirties of the XX century.

On the stage "Rotunda" there will be a dance master class, which will show the popular movements of the 1950s, teach you how to improvise independently and move in pairs. The retro dance floor will be open until the evening, so everyone will have time to enjoy the rhythms of the past.

All events within the framework of the festival are free.

The program of the festival "Retro Park"

• 11: 00-14: 00 - Astronomers' Garden - Chess Blitz Tournament
• 12: 00-19: 00 - Garden of Astronomers + Fountain Square - Interactive playground "Games of our childhood"
• 14: 30-15: 00 - Fountain Square - Parade of participants in the retro-costume competition "Defile in the Park", accompanied by a brass band
• 14:00 - 14: 30 - Estrada Rotunda - Official awarding ceremony for the participants of the chess blitz tournament
• 15: 00-16: 30 - Stage Rotunda - Competition of retro-costume "Defile in the Park" 16: 30-17: 00 - Stage Rotunda - Brass band performance
• 17: 00-18: 00 - Stage Rotunda - Master class on retro dances from professional dancers
• 18: 00-19: 00 - Stage Rotunda - Retro dance floor (tunes of past years) 10: 00-19: 00 - Big Circle from Sand Alley to Rotunda - Antique flea market
• 13: 00-14: 30 - Big Circle from Sand Alley to Rotunda - Lecture-master class "Walk with a collector in an antique flea market"
• 12: 00-19: 00 - Museum tent at the Rotunda Estrada - Master classes for children, Soviet board games
• 14:00, 15:00, 17:00, 18:00 - Sokolniki Park Museum - Excursion to the exhibition "Outfits of the past in Sokolniki"

You can find out more on the organizers website.

"Oldtimer Gallery" is the largest exhibition of vintage cars and antiques in our country, which has been held since 2002.

This time, the exhibition will host the Motors of Victory military-technical festival, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. The festival will bring together dozens of museums and historical reconstruction clubs. Many unique exhibits have been removed from the museum's storerooms and restored specifically for this event. The triumphant symbol of the Great Victory is a complete collection of seven ceremonial convertibles, first assembled in one hall at the stand of the Special Purpose Garage. The significance of these magnificent swift "steel horses" in the history of our country can hardly be overestimated: each of them, from the Stalinist ZiS-110B to the modern "Aurus", is an absolute and priceless relic.

The organizers of the exhibition decided to mark the beginning of the "twenties" with a retrospective display of outstanding cars a century ago. Viewers are invited to travel "forward into the past" - from 2020 to the 1920s. In just four days, one of the pavilions of the exhibition will turn into car salon the heyday of Ar-Deco. The central alley will house a dozen of respectable "motors", embodying the luxury and splendor of the last "gallant era". The atmosphericly decorated hall, in which literally everything, and the magical stained-glass windows in the Tiffany style, and the warm illumination of the exhibits, and tastefully selected jazz music, and designer mannequins with designer costumes in the modern style, and even authentic smells, will immerse the viewer in a space of impeccable harmony and light nostalgia for the "good old days".

It is known that the rarest and most interesting oldtimers are bought at auctions. Now you don't have to go abroad for this: for the most discerning collectors, the Yegorov Auction House will hold a unique auction on the last day of the exhibition. "Under the hammer" will go not only unique cars and motorcycles, but also items of technical antiques, usually preserved in a single copy - the coveted objects of the "hunt" of gambling collectors. Starting prices range from several thousand to tens of millions of rubles.

Despite the huge number of rare and unique fire trucks at the Oldtimer Gallery 2018 exhibition, as always, interesting and not yet completely forgotten civil automobile rarities of private Russian restorers and collectors were presented.

Recently, in Moscow's snow-covered Sokolniki, an annual automobile exhibition of unique and rare vintage cars "Oldtimer-Gallery" took place. The exhibition has been held since 2002 and each time the organizers come up with some interesting theme for the event - its exhibits are almost never repeated, these are always loud premieres, automobile sensations and amazing surprises. This time a special exposition is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the fire brigade of the USSR.

The jubilee exposition of fire fighting equipment at the Oldtimer Gallery gathered under one roof almost all the fire engines that have survived in central Russia, and those samples of equipment that have not survived to this day can be seen in the same hall, at the exhibition of photographs "Fire Type". composed of rare and unique archival photographs. The history of domestic fire-fighting vehicles is reflected both in the retrospective of the covers of the Fire Department magazine, covering the period from the 1920s to the 1960s, and in a unique collection of fire-fighting posters.

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Legendary soviet car Moskvich - 407

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Moskvich - 427 station wagon based on the legendary 412 model

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An artist was present at the exhibition. I will show you his work at the end of the report.

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Bentley S2 Convertible (1962) A total of 388 # BentleyS2s were made from 1959 to 1962, and this number immediately makes the model a real rarity. But an even rarer modification is the S2 Continental with a lightweight chassis specially designed for the construction of convertibles. Such as the presented copy of the work of the Park Ward studio is a real masterpiece of bodywork.

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ZIL-41047 is an executive class car with a limousine-type body. In connection with the arrival of the new General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1985, production of # ZIL41047 began, which replaced the ZIL-41045 model. Twin headlights became rectangular, the radiator grille is stylized in a different way, replaced taillights, the direction indicators have been moved to the ends of the wings. Gone are the swivel vents on the front doors. Earlier, from 1976 to 1983, the ZIL-4104 (ZIL-115) model was produced with modifications, then in the period from 1983 to 1985 - ZIL-41045 with modifications; both models were distinguished by round headlights and a number of others technical parameters... The cars were intended to serve members of the Politburo

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Of course, the Oldtimer Gallery could not do without showing the technology of the war years.

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ZIL-157 - truck off-road production of the Plant to them. Likhachev - # ZIL157. Serially produced since 1958, mainly for the Armed Forces of the USSR Armed Forces.

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For children, # BTR152, a Soviet armored personnel carrier created on the basis of components and assemblies of the ZIS-151 truck, was installed at the entrance to the pavilion.

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BTR-152 was adopted by the Armed Forces USSR in 1950.

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The armored transporter had a welded supporting body open on top. Was in serial production from 1950 to 1955. The production of other modifications continued until 1962.

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Total at the plant named after Stalin and Bryansk car factory 12 421 vehicles were produced. Was in service with the Russian Armed Forces until 1993.

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Minsk guys brought a collection of Corvettes to the exhibition, which I will tell you about in the next report. Chevrolet Corvette C7 (2014) Seventh generation planned for 2011 model year for the 100th anniversary of the #Chevrolet brand, but delayed for two years. The new generation also received the Stingray prefix to the name, and its design was partially inherited from the Stingray concept car. "Seventh" is equipped with a new V8 engine with a capacity of 466 hp, which accelerates it to 100 km / h in 3.8 seconds.

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Chevrolet Corvette C1 (1961) The Corvette was the first American sports car created by an American manufacturer. The two-door coupe #ChevroletCorvette with a fiberglass body on a metal frame was first presented at the 1953 Motorama show. Six-cylinder engine with a volume of 3.8 liters and a power of 152 hp. accelerated it to 100 km / h in less than 10 seconds - for those years it was fantastic.

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At the entrance to the exhibition pavilion, one could have a snack and taste real ice cream. Here is such a funny trailer on wheels that offered ice cream to everyone

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Moskvich - 412 - Soviet and Russian rear-wheel drive car of the II group of a small class, produced from October 1967 to December 1975 in Moscow at the MZMA plant

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Disabled woman SMZ S-3D (es-tri-de) is a two-seater four-wheeled motorized car of the Serpukhov Automobile Plant (at that time still SMZ). The car replaced the S-3AM motorized carriage in 1970.

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Soviet cars

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And you say there were no jeeps in the USSR. And what's that?

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Here's an M-72 of 1955-1958 based on the body of the legendary "Victory" and the units of the GAZ-69 army all-terrain vehicle.
#oldtimergallery2018 # victories20 # retro car # fish-eye # victories72

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Well, who remembers this off-road M-72?

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From the M-20 "Pobeda" for this car, only the outer body panels and the supporting body frame were taken, which was modified and additionally reinforced.

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The features of Gas - 69 can be traced even in this body

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And here is the classic Victory M - 20 - Soviet a car, mass-produced at the Gorky Automobile Plant in 1946-1958. The factory model index is M-20. The first Soviet passenger car with a monocoque body and one of the first in the world to be mass-produced with a completely pontoon-type body - without protruding fenders and their rudiments, footboards and headlights.

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On June 28, 1946, the serial production of Pobeda cars began. In total, by May 31, 1958, 241,497 cars were produced, including 14,222 convertibles and 37,492 taxis.

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And of course the Lancia Beta Coupé (1975) The Beta was produced from 1972 to 1984 and was the first #Lancia introduced after Fiat took over the company in 1969. The appearance of the coupe was somewhat delayed due to the fuel crisis and took place in 1974.

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The Lancia Beta Coupé was successfully exported to the United States, and a total of 111,801 coupe units were made.

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Porsche 911ST (1971)

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Few Porsche cars have as much pedigree as this 911, which took part in the 1972 Monte Carlo Rally with the factory team. This event alone made it a sporting relic and a collector's item that fans of the brand will hunt for.

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The appearance of such a Porsche in Russia is a gift to those who love these cars.

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The Oldiemer Gallery this time presented a rare 1835 crew from Britain

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Landau of British King William IV (1835) The carriage was made in 1835 for the stables of the British royal court and was intended for the long journeys of the monarch and his courtiers. The carriage is decorated with British coats of arms and decorative elements in the form of a crown. The crew was sold by the palace stables at the beginning of the 20th century, changed several owners and collectors, and eventually ended up in Russia.

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Cadillac Fleetwood (1940) One of the rarest Cadillacs in the world - a 1940 cabriolet, replicated in only 39 copies. At that time, he was one of the most expensive in lineup and cost more than four thousand dollars - almost twice as much as the most basic Cadillac and eight times as expensive as a Ford. The car was brought from the USA and restored in Russia.

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A detailed report on fire fighting equipment Exhibition of fire vehicles Oldtimer - Gallery 2018 see here -

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Moskvich-415S (1959)

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The family of four-wheel drive "Muscovites", created in the late 1950s by designer Igor Gladilin, became a kind of "presentiment" of the future "Niva" - a light SUV allowed for sale to the public. Unfortunately, things did not go further than prototypes. The prototype "415C" was made in a single copy and will be shown to the public for the first time.

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Opel kadett B (1971) German bestseller of the early 70s, replicated over six years of production in an amount of 2,649,501 copies. The name Cadet means "junior" - this was the name of the budget model of the Opel brand, produced from 1962 to 1992. Many still remember these Cadets, who poured into our country with the first stream of foreign cars in the 90s. Opel Kadett B is their ancestor.

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Studebaker President (1928) American stamp immortalized by Ilf and Petrov in Ostap Bender's fiery speech: “Go to hell with your Studebaker! - shouted Ostap. - Who is Studebaker? Is this your relative of the Studebaker? Is your papa Studebaker? " By the way, the 1928 car could take part in the very rally that Ostap wanted to hit “on the road and sloppiness”.

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GAZ-M21I Volga (1960)

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Volga of the second series due to its radiator grill with 16 vertical slots received the nickname "shark's mouth". The mechanical part remained practically unchanged, although the gradual modernization did not stop. Yuri Gagarin had such a black "Volga", and the same "ivory" is in the garage of Vladimir Putin.

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ZiS - 110 classic Soviet limousine

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Back to USSR

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The exhibition was full of the spirit of the outgoing era of the USSR

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IZH-412 (1985) Izhevsk version of Moskvich-412, produced from 1968 to 2001 at the Izhmash plant, which belonged to the Ministry of Defense and produced the legendary Kalashnikov assault rifles. The "Godfather" of Izhevsk "Moskvich" can be called the then Minister of Defense Marshal Ustinov, who supported this project. The plant produced up to 200 thousand cars a year.

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GAZ-24 Volga (1977)

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It is difficult to find at least one person born in the USSR who has never driven a Volga in his life. These are memories of youth, life stories, travel and taxi rides.

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GAZ-24 is a real "time machine" that takes us back in time with its slightly petrol aroma in the cabin and the unique "Volgovskiy" roar of the muffler, unmistakably recognizable from thousands of others.

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ZIL-118 Yunost (1968) Multi-seat comfortable bus, created on the basis of the government limousine ZIL-111 at the initiative of the ZIL design bureau. The bus delighted the First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev, and Henry Ford II even tried to buy a license for the production of "Youth" in the United States. Despite such a resounding success, the minibus did not become serial and was produced individually.

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VAZ-21011 Zhiguli (1978) With the appearance of the Zhiguli in the Soviet Union, a new automobile era began - for the first time a personal car became available to millions of people. It was not only freedom of movement, but also a symbol of prosperity and success in life. The very first model with the index 2101 was produced for 18 years in various modifications- their total production amounted to 4.85 million vehicles.

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Moskvich-400-420A (1954) A variant of the "Moskvich" with a body type unusual for our country, called "cabriolimousine". This term denotes a body with an open top, but with sidewalls and door frames, although in everyday life the open "Moskvich" was called a convertible. However, Soviet motorists were in no hurry to acquire them due to their obvious impracticality in the climate of most of the country.

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GAZ-AA (1935) At the exhibition, it was possible to start and listen to the engine of the legendary GAZ-AA car, the famous semi-lorry - a truck from the Nizhny Novgorod (in 1932), later the Gorky Automobile Plant, with a carrying capacity of 1.5 tons (1500 kg), known as a lorry.

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Packard Eight (1934) Packards - cars with a strict and impetuous appearance, which were so loved in the 30s by the powers that be - from American presidents and Soviet leaders to Latin American drug lords and European gangsters. Like many of its brothers in the highest automotive society, the Packard brand has not survived to this day, but left a good "legacy".

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And here is our artist. In a few hours he wrote this beautiful Seagrave Model 6WT (1927). In my opinion, it is very beautiful.

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This is how the car exhibition in Sokolniki "Oldtimer - Gallery" 2018, exhibition retro car and workshops, a gathering of collectors and masters of automotive restoration of unique rare cars

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When you enter the Oldiemer Gallery, you are immersed in the past century

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The weather in Sokolniki was spring and sunny. Automotive Exhibition received its visitors.

So it goes

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