Photo fact: Patriarch Kirill arrived on Red Square on Seagull GAZ-13

A fragment of a video appeared on the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church, from which it follows that the on the eve of the motorway used a retro -car of the Soviet era. Patriarch Kirill arrived at a concert dedicated to the Day of Slavic Writing and Culture, on the authentic “Seagull” GAZ-13 with 0034 mmB of the state standard of 1977.

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GAZ-13 “Chaika” was produced until April 1981, although back in 1977, a more modern model with the 14 index was replaced. Patriarch Kirill has a slurred machine, previously owned by Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga Nicodemus. The future leader of the Russian Orthodox Church often traveled on a representative sedan back in the 1960s as secretary of Metropolitan Nicodemus.

Moscow Patriarchate / Patriarchia.ru

In 2018, the Patriarch press secretary noted that the car is used on special occasions when traveling at short distances. And although the “seagull” is put in order, the mechanics “do not give one hundred percent guarantee on long trips.” The latest registration actions with GAZ-13 were dated to 1997: then the owner was the “Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate”.

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The main car of Patriarch Kirill is the elongated Aurus Senat, and the Aurus Arsenal minivan has recently appeared. Other protected faces of retro cars use even less often: you can only remember Dmitry Medvedev’s trip with Arnold Schwarzenegger on a similar “Seagull” of the GAZ-13 white color in 2010.

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