Malyutka (Малютка) [4]

The Malyutka was a light-green, streamlined three-wheeled microcar built in Achinsk by Vladimir Grigoryevich Bezyazykov, a labour teacher at secondary school No. 2. He had long planned a miniature two-seat motorised carriage with a closed luggage compartment, made many drawings and calculated fuel consumption and equipment costs before choosing the simplest design, a three-wheeler. The car was built slowly in a home workshop and cost less than two thousand roubles.…