The Almaz was a Soviet home-built open car made by Valentin Ivanovich Litovchenko, a fitter from Donetsk. In the autumn of 1971 it took part in the ninth run of home-built cars. The 3,000 km route led from the VDNKh exhibition in Moscow through Tula, Oryol, Kyiv, Lviv and the Carpathians to Chisinau and Odesa. The Almaz won second prize and served throughout as the commander’s car at the parades…
