Moscow parade of municipal special vehicles in 2019 has broken its own record

16 September 2019

At the capital's parade of 2019 showed 699 special vehicles of municipal services and emergency services

Last Saturday in Moscow hosted an impressive parade of urban special vehicles.

On the garden ring went almost seven hundred cars, including public transport, car maintenance services and ambulance, sweeper, utility, rescue and fire equipment, as well as vintage cars from the Museum "Moscow transport" and two brass bands on trailers – fire and police (photo on the splash screen).

The parade started from the Academician Sakharov Avenue and walked around the garden ring (counterclockwise and overlap ).

Near the Crimean bridge column ground equipment supported and the Moscow river. So from the Crimean bridge to Neskuchniy garden on the river proceeded fire and rescue vehicles and water motorcycles team MOE "Jetski-Spas".

At the end on the Avenue Academician Sakharov, an exhibition was held of the two hundred samples of various special vehicles, where Muscovites and guests could get acquainted with the machines for the daily life of the city.

Among them was watering machine PM-10 on chassis ZIL-164, which was used for washing streets and watering greenery and for fighting fires and clearing snow. It is this "politiku" took off in 1963 in the popular movie "Come back tomorrow".

For the first time, a parade of city vehicles was held was held in Moscow in 2016. Then a convoy of more than 650 cars for the city services and emergency services marched through the streets of the capital and has become the largest in the history of Russia and Europe. This year, the record was closed, as the column passed 699 units.

PS However, not all Muscovites are satisfied not so much by the parade, many accompanied him in transport zatrudneniyato the same recurring annually.

Also there are questions about cost and feasibility, in principle, of holding such a large event? Including because for parade work removed such socially important machines such as ambulance, ambulances, and buses and electric buses.