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# The Moskvich and the Volga in a 1959 London Evening News Survey of Soviet Cars
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/moskvich-i-volga-v-obzore-sovetskikh-avtomobilei-london-evening-news-1959-goda/
- Published: 2022-02-06T08:11:01.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:39:26.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, In the Press, London, Society

The Moskvich and the Volga in a 1959 London Evening News survey of Soviet cars. Despite the popularity of the GAZ-21 after the World Fair in Brussels, where our Volga won the Grand Prix and was declared the best car in Europe for 1958, the English newspaper does not sing the praises of Russian machines, and reports instead that "the Russians may overtake us in space, but we are ahead of them on the roads".