Photos: The wooden car with a split personality

Here's the more contemporary profile of the car. Under the hood, many of the components are straight out of the late Brezhnev era: Lazarenko (that's him in the driver's seat) refashioned the chassis and engine from a 1981 Opel with a 100-horsepower engine.

Photo by Itar-Tass/Vasily Kiyashko