The open-air car collection in Chernousovo ceased to exist

In the village of Chernousovo, Tula region, an open-air collection of cars, also known as the M. Yu. Krasinets Auto Museum, ceased to exist. The exhibition was organized by Mikhail Krasinets, who, starting in 1996, managed to collect approximately 400 pieces of retro equipment in an open field.

Mikhail Yuryevich Krasinets died in the summer of 2021. His widow, Marina Aleksevna Krasinets, kept the collection, but in the fall of 2025 she decided to transfer some copies for storage to a certain collector.

The first to disappear from Chernosuovo was a Moskvich tractor nicknamed “Bolivar” – a small tow truck based on the AZLK-2140 sedan, created for internal use by the AZLK plant.

Also, a prototype of the Moskvich 3−5−5 was taken out of the Mikhail Krasinets Auto Museum. This is a promising vehicle that AZLK worked on at the turn of 1960-1970, but the project was closed.

Now, as Motor magazine has learned, the M. Yu. Krasinets Auto Museum is completely closed. Car removal continues and tires, wheels and other parts are being recycled.

According to information from Marina Krasinets, soon the most valuable equipment will become the property of a certain patriotic museum, but there are no other details about where the equipment is going.

Nowadays the closed meeting of machines had scandalous fame. Some considered Krasinets a genius who saved unique specimens, while others argued that Mikhail was destroying history by improper storage.

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