The Moscow Transport Museum has completed the restoration of the Ikarus 280 bus

The Moscow Transport Museum has completed the restoration of one of the most recognizable buses, the Ikarus 280. This was announced on Thursday, April 16, by Maxim Liksutov, Deputy Mayor of the capital for Transport.

He noted that the model had been used on routes for 39 years and would now become a valuable exhibit on permanent display in Konstantin Melnikov's garage on Novoryazanskaya Street. According to him, the work is being carried out as part of a program to preserve the transport heritage of the capital.

The museum recalled that the Ikarus-280 began to be mass-produced in 1973, and it appeared in the USSR in large numbers since the mid-1970s. Initially, the bus was designed with an imported transmission, but later it was equipped with a manual transmission, which made the model more reliable. In total, more than 32,000 such machines were supplied to the USSR and Russia, the Moscow City News agency reports.

Oksana Bondarenko, director of the museum, said that during the restoration, key elements of the body and frame were recreated according to archival drawings, the interior was completely renovated and the original parts, including the Hungarian flooring, were returned.

It is noted that the 1985 bus will be presented in one of the most common modifications for Moscow. He previously worked in Budapest, then in Moscow, and in 2007 he added to the museum's collection, writes Moscow 24.

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