Tajik capital expected to host auto retro exhibition on April 25

DUSHANBE, April 21, 2015, Asia-Plus – The third auto retro exhibition, dubbed Tajikistan Auto Retro, is expected to take place in Dushanbe on April 25. Organized by the Initiative Group of Fans of Retro Cars and NextView Consulting Company under support of the Dushanbe Mayor’s Office, the exhibition will be held on the territory of […]

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DUSHANBE, April 21, 2015, Asia-Plus – The third auto retro exhibition, dubbed Tajikistan Auto Retro, is expected to take place in Dushanbe on April 25.

Organized by the Initiative Group of Fans of Retro Cars and NextView Consulting Company under support of the Dushanbe Mayor’s Office, the exhibition will be held on the territory of the Trading Complex

Poytakht-90

.

I Am Different, FlyDubai Airlines and Beeline Tajikistan are sponsors of the event and the Trading Complex

Poytakht-90

, Ad Company

Naqsh

and Tojikonhiliday Company are partners of the festival.

Ideas&Reklama, Media Holding

Asia-Plus

, Radio

Vatan

, TV Channel

Poytakht

and newspapers

Reklamnaya Gazeta

,

Vechenry Dushanbe

and

Farazh

provide information support for the festival.

The exhibition is supposed to feature such legends on wheels as the GAZ-M20 “Pobeda” (a passenger car produced in the Soviet Union by GAZ from 1946 until 1958), ZIM-12 (a Soviet limousine manufactured by GAZ from 1950 till 1960), Chaika M-13 (a luxury automobile from the Soviet Union made by GAZ; it was manufactured from 1959 till 1981), GAZ M21 Volga (a passenger car produced in the Soviet Union by GAZ from 1956 until 1972), GAZ-24 Volga (an automobile manufactured by GAZ from 1968 to 1985), several models of Moskvitch (an automobile brand from Russia produced by AZLK from 1945 to 1991), Zaporozhets (it was known as the “hunchback” because of its aesthetically challenged silhouette),  several models of Zhiguli (a passenger car manufactured by AvtoVAZ and introduced in 1970), and Opel Admiral (a luxury car made by the German car manufacturer Opel from 1937 to 1939 and again from 1964 to 1977).

We will recall that the first auto retro exhibition, dubbed Dushanbe Auto Retro, took place in Dushanbe on April 21, 2013.  The retro car parade started in the center of city and ended at the ring road near Boghi Poytakht.  More than 30 retro cars and motorcycles manufactured from 1931 to 1970 participated in that parade.  

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