Car Battles at Stalin Line

The “Battle of the Cars” took place at Stalin Line on 26 September 2015.

Ahead of the event, a small exhibition of classic cars was held, where Yevgeny Veryovkin’s car attracted particular interest from spectators. It was a GAZ-21 Volga, a car dear to the hearts of Soviet people, but it turned out that he had built it on the platform of a Japanese Mazda Millenia!

Nearby stood the proudly displayed humpbacked workhorse, the VAZ-2102 ‘Two’. The sight of the famous German Beetle may have reminded visitors of one of the car’s creators, Ferdinand Porsche, the renowned Wehrmacht tank designer. Yet hardly anyone remembered that the car’s particularly elegant appearance was shaped by a failed artist who went down in history as the leader of the Third Reich.

Just before the Battle of the Cars, visitors had plenty of time to enjoy tank rides and have their photographs taken with the charming ‘Papuan girls’.

The participants in the car battles at Stalin Line were:

  • Ford Granada “Cooper”, driven by Anatoly Petrushkevich from Minsk
  • Ford Sierra “Super Zaya”, driven by Nikolai Veremeyenko from Grodno
  • GAZ-2410 “Stepanych”, driven by Sergei Dylevsky from Minsk
  • Mercedes W124, driven by Alexander Susha of the “Susha” team
  • Moskvich-412 “Mityai”, driven by Leonid Pavlyuchenko of the “Allan Service” team
  • Ford Taunus, driven by Nikita Susha of the “Susha” team
  • Volga from the “Archipelago” team
  • Honda Civic “Haris”, driven by Malikov of the “Haris-Motors” team
  • GAZ-3110 “#GAZOMYAS”, driven by Yuri Shilov of the “Archipelago” team
  • GAZ-2401 “Haifisch”, driven by Mikhail Turubarov of the “MGAK Khutorkastoms” team
  • GAZ-3110 “Black Dog”, driven by Dmitry Ryabov of the “Arenaderby” team
  • AZLK-2140 “Clear Victory”, driven by Maksim Ivashkevich of the “Eurogarage Car Wash” team
  • Opel Rekord, driven by Pyotr Malets of the Avtomozaika team.
  • Golf 2 “Hans” of the “Main Road” team from Baranovichi
  • AZLK-2140 “Mosyana”
  • Ford Granada, driven by Grigory Zubkevich of the ABW.BY team

Find out how the car battles at Stalin Line unfolded in our report.