Description of the attraction
Finding a city in which this or that technique has not been immortalized is not easy. Kiev is no exception, where you can find more than one similar monument. And although earlier they liked to put mainly military equipment on the pedestals, and then they massively switched to more peaceful products, the monument that perpetuated the work of warrior-motorists managed to combine two opposites - war and a completely peaceful occupation.
Naturally, the best option for such a monument could only be a car mounted on a pedestal. It is clear that it could not have been any car, but only one that was as similar as possible to those who worked throughout the war. Kiev was incredibly lucky with the monument to the warriors-motorists - not a copy, but the original, the brainchild of those difficult times, drove onto the pedestal. And although the researchers of the history of Kiev cannot say for sure whether this car participated in the war itself, they confirm in chorus that it left the assembly line of the plant just at the beginning of 1941.
This modest lorry, proudly called ZiS (Stalin Plant, now known as ZiL), was accidentally discovered in the late seventies in the courtyard of a shoe factory. At the same time, the car did not slowly rust in the corner, living out its last years, but rather briskly drove around the factory territory, delivering the necessary goods.
Naturally, in the form in which the lorry was found, it was not suitable for the monument, so it was restored and, in 1985, when a monument to soldiers-motorists was unveiled on Moscow Square, ZiS drove onto the pedestal on its own. The latter fact even served as an impetus for the emergence of a new urban legend, which says that if you fill up the car, you can quickly start it and go about your business.
