Martin Antonenko
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The first Russian car...
On July 16, 1896, during the Nizhny Novgorod Fair, the Jakovlew-Frese motor car is presented, the first automobile designed and built entirely in Russia!
The engine and transmission are designed and built by the navy lieutenant Jewgenij Jakowlew (1857 – 1898)…
...body, chassis and wheels come from the designer and inventor Pjotr Frese (1844 – 1918)…:
The two-seater automobile reaches a top speed of 20 km/h, is powered by a single-cylinder engine with a displacement of 860 cubic centimeters and weighs 300 kilograms...:
Here's the trademark...
This first Russian automobile will not have a long future! Exactly one copy will be built - the one shown in the photo above!
Because just two years later Yevgeny Yakovlev dies and his heirs have not the slightest interest in vehicles and internal combustion engines!
In the period that followed, Frese continued to run the business under his own name, but specialized in trucks...
…buses…
...and fire engines...:
Production ceased in 1904.
The original copy of the "Jakowlew-Frese" has not been preserved - today there is a replica that is true to the original in the museum in Moscow...:
On July 16, 1896, during the Nizhny Novgorod Fair, the Jakovlew-Frese motor car is presented, the first automobile designed and built entirely in Russia!
The engine and transmission are designed and built by the navy lieutenant Jewgenij Jakowlew (1857 – 1898)…
...body, chassis and wheels come from the designer and inventor Pjotr Frese (1844 – 1918)…:
The two-seater automobile reaches a top speed of 20 km/h, is powered by a single-cylinder engine with a displacement of 860 cubic centimeters and weighs 300 kilograms...:
Here's the trademark...
This first Russian automobile will not have a long future! Exactly one copy will be built - the one shown in the photo above!
Because just two years later Yevgeny Yakovlev dies and his heirs have not the slightest interest in vehicles and internal combustion engines!
In the period that followed, Frese continued to run the business under his own name, but specialized in trucks...
…buses…
...and fire engines...:
Production ceased in 1904.
The original copy of the "Jakowlew-Frese" has not been preserved - today there is a replica that is true to the original in the museum in Moscow...:
