Performance tests ZIL -135 (1969)

Experimental cars of high-passability of the Moscow automobile plant of them.

Likhachev before the start of tests in winter conditions in 1964 in the area of construction of the Tyumen oil pipeline.

Drivers check the operation of the engines.

Road transport stopped due to severe frosts and deep snow.

A tanker truck stuck in the snow.

A four-axle truck "ZIL-135" with a load goes through the snow.

"ZIL-135" pulls out of the snow stuck tanker.

Loaded "ZIL-135" overcome the snow virgin land.

Passes "ZIL-135" with a broken wheel bracket.

A ZIL-157 escort van skidding in the snow.

"ZIL-135" is towing an escort car on a snow track.

View of the front part of the "ZIL-135".

ZIL-157 trucks stuck in the snow.

Loaded "ZIL-135" overcomes the snow virgin land.

"ZIL-135" with a wide wheelbase goes on a narrow deck through the ice crossing.

A truck wheel on the edge of the deck.

The truck overcomes a narrow deck.

Loading of pipes on a pipe carrier based on "ZIL-135".

Pipe carriers of two types during the tests.

A pipe carrier with a long disbandment is transported over the ice across the river.

A pipe truck with a long disbandment goes along a forest road, touches the trees.

Tests of the ZIL-135 pipe carrier with a long disbandment in the desert near the city of Urgench, transportation of long pipes.

The pipe carrier maneuvers between the dunes.

A pipe carrier with a long disbandment carries pipes along a snow track.

Transportation of pipes in winter conditions on a special long-wheelbase chassis.

The experimental three-axle snowmobile "ZIL-167" demonstrates its capabilities on the virgin snow, driving around trucks waiting in line for the exit.

The pipe truck is on its way.

Three-axle snowmobile "ZIL-167" on the snow virgin land goes around the trucks standing on the road.

Wheeled ATVs ZIL moving out to plank the road and go on the virgin snow.

All-terrain vehicles go around the cluster of trucks and crawler tractors, then get back on the road.

Drivers of standing trucks watch the all-terrain vehicles.

All-terrain vehicles "ZIL-135" on the way during the tests.