Tank Engine 9P-742

Here is a monument in Dubna, a city somewhere in Russia, and the monument is of a tank engine.

A former workhorse tank engine of the type 0-3-0, the 9P-742 was gifted to the city of Dubna by Russia's Railway Ministry in 2010.

A tank locomotive or tank engine is a steam locomotive that carries its water in one or more on-board water tanks, instead of a more traditional tender.

A tank engine may also have a bunker (or oil tank) to hold fuel. 

The interior of the Railway Station in Dubna, in front of which the monument is situated.

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Abandoned Volga GAZ-24 car

Abandoned Volga GAZ-21 in Snow Walkaround

Opel Senator A Facelift

Here is an Opel Senator, # 2 on blog so far.

This one is a facelifted Senator A (1982-86).

Abandoned GAZ-53 truck

Lada 2106

Another Lada VAZ-2106, aka the "Six"... with a BMW emblem.

Cars Close Up

Moskvitch 400

Here is a Moskvitch 400 car on a street in some small town not far from Moscow.

Since I wasn't able to photograph to the font of the vehicle, here is what it looks like on an earlier sighting.

Tupolev Tu-104

[Correction: this is not a Tu-104, it's a Tu-124, a smaller version].


Here is a Tupolev Tu-104 displayed at entry to the bridge over the river Volga at Kimry, somewhere in Russia.

Per wikipedia, The Tupolev Tu-104 was a twinjet medium-range narrow-body turbojet-powered Soviet airliner.

It was the second to enter in regular service and was the only jetliner operating in the world from 1956 to 1958 when Boeing finally came up with its first flying contraption of a jetliner.

In 1957, Czechoslovak Airlines – ČSA, (now Czech Airlines) became the first airline in the world to fly a route exclusively with jet airliners, using the Tu-104A variant between Prague and Moscow. In civil service, the Tu-104 carried over 90 million passengers with Aeroflot (then the world's largest airline), and a lesser number with ČSA.

Moscow Carsharing Rental Cars

Moscow car sharing rental cars rented for short periods of time via a mobile phone app.

High Visibility Traffic Lights at Night

Izh-412 (Moskvitch-412)

Izh-412 (Moskvitch-412).

The Izh 412 is the Moskvitch 412 model but produced by Izh at its Izhevsk plant, rather than by the Moskvitch factory in Moscow.

In orange which could be original.

The Izh-412 is a small family car produced by IZh in Izhevsk from 1967 to 1982 (also known as Izh-412), a near total copy of the Moskvitch 412.

White walls!

 As Moskvitch 412 it will be the number 6 on this blog but the number 3 as Izh 412.

Interior.