LAZ-695, The SOULKILLER. The Most Mass-Produced Bus in the USSR

Soviet public transportation. Soviet bus. Soviet city bus. Soviet intercity bus. LAZ-695 bus.
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[@UshankaShow]

Public Transportation Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLNq3y0OU1_BbmztI15ICij_J0erubK88j My name is Sergei Sputnikoff. I was born in the USSR in 1971. Since 1999 I have lived in the USA. The Ushanka Show was created to share stories and recollections of everyday life in the USSR. My books about arriving in America are available at www.sputnikoff.com/shop (Russian or English versions) or on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNQR1FBC?binding=paperback&searchxofy=true&ref_=dbs_s_aps_series_rwt_tpbk&qid=1688731325&sr=8-1 Don't hesitate to get in touch with me at [e-mail] if you would like to purchase a signed copy of “American Diaries” Fan Mail: Ushanka Show P.O. Box 96 Berrien Springs MI 49103, USA You can support this project with SuperThanks tips, or: Via Patreon here: www.patreon.com/sputnikoff Viia PAYPAL: paypal.me/ushankashow Ushanka Show merchandise: teespring.com/stores/ushanka-show-shop Instagram: instagram.com/ushanka_show

[@HunterKampf]

I know a couple things about the Soviet Union back in USSR I love their trucks and their cars that I heard I heard they got nice buses there

[@HunterKampf]

And their cars to their cars are really nice looking another red style of the cars

[@HunterKampf]

Are you from Michigan cuz I'm from Michigan and you're from are you from the Soviet Union of Russia

[@HunterKampf]

The Ukraine II you've been in Ukraine

[@HunterKampf]

Do you like Russia in Belarus in Ukraine and Kazakhstan rest of the Slate countries

[@triviace]

I am a conservative American,I don't understand how anybody can accuse you of Pro Communist or Pro Soviet bias.I don't have to agrre with all of your ideas to enjoy your honest input of growing up in the USSR.We all have perspectives and they differ greatly.Thank You for your diligence of informing those of us who did not experience communism.

[@spazzypengin]

I've shifted more towards a Ted K. (NOT Kennedy) inspired worldview, also don't agree with Sergei all the time but I'm not here to agree or disagree, I'm here to hear from the horse's mouth one person's experience in Soviet Ukraine. I've also never interpreted anything he's posted or said to be pro-Soviet propaganda because, let's be real, it isn't. Ffs, in his video on vodka he says "If they're in such a worker's paradise why are so many people turning to alcohol?"

[@monkemode8128]

​​@@spazzypenginI think its rooted in people to not accept nuance when it comes to enemies, see them as all bad. Anything that sounds somewhat humanizing or even good about the other side is therefore offensive and lies.

[@JuusoAlasuutari]

I'm Finnish and spent the first 11 years of my life in the shadow of the Soviet Union. Even with the Finnish society being somewhat influenced by our socialist neighbor (universal health care and other social support structures), no one here would mistake such things as being pro-Soviet or pro-communist. Saying that us Finns were and are anti-Soviet would be an understatement. So to any Americans out there who might buy into the talking points accusing the Nordic model being socialist, just no. From our point of view who live here right next to Russia, who lived through those times, it's ridiculous to equate simply having reasonable support mechanisms with a communist or socialist model. The difference between the two is night and day - we know, we saw it by crossing the border and having a look. I'm not sure I'm actually on topic anymore, but whatever. Have a wonderful day!

[@michaelmckenna6464]

People who accuse you of being pro-communist, not only don’t know what they’re talking about but also see everything in black and white (without any grey area).

[@InfiniteLoop]

Comrade Sergey, as we all know, 20 year old American college kids know more about the USSR than anyone who actually lived there would ever know, lol.

[@jamallabarge2665]

They're full of confidence, ready to repeat "the experiment". "Properly this time". I have a few friends who continue the Faith. I feel a bit hurt that these kids imagine that they're more capable than people who sword oaths to protect the USSR then left service and worked there until the collapse. They came here rather than starve. However they still Believe.

[@jamallabarge2665]

One of the Soviet Ex-pats used to give me advise on dealing with bureaucracy at work. He knew how to re-distribute the pain to get the right people to hurt. He was frighteningly effective at getting management to work with him. He could explain how to do it in very precise and clear English. The USSR was an excellent prep school for managing bureaucrats.

[@fritz3135]

​@@jamallabarge2665 what did he say?

[@jamallabarge2665]

@@fritz3135 He told me to ensure that the appropriate parties could not evade responsibility. I would do this by creating a group of emails, citing documentation, meetings and my supervisors. The goal is to pin the blame on them

[@americanmade4791]

The expression is, "always wrong, never in doubt."

[@henningdammann-emden]

I have been a passenger on one of those busses just once when I lived in Estonia around 1994. It was dead slow and I immediately fell asleep from the exhaust fumes inside the bus. Been sitting in the last row, too.

[@spazzypengin]

Carbon monoxide builds character.

[@cebruthius]

In soviet Russia, bus rides yooouuuuu

[@jayuno3009]

I cannot believe how rude some people are to Sergei. I’ve learned a lot from his channel, I find it really fascinating. It seems that some people cannot help but to politicize and criticize someone for sharing their life experiences - it really shows the ugliness of our culture. The person that made that comment must be deeply unhappy to put someone down like that. One day, there won’t be anyone left alive who lived in the Soviet Union, so the work Sergei is doing is important in my opinion, from a first person historical perspective.

[@Andy_Novosad]

As I mentioned before under your previous KZbin post with this photo, it is a well known photo, and it was taken in 1964 by a French photographer (can't remember his name right now). So no mystery here. P.S. The bus in the photo is LAZ-695B. This type of body with a hump in the back was prodused not until 1964, but until 1969, when the 695M took over. P.P.S. The guy that said that 695 is the most produced bus is quite right. Although an exteriour of 695 was changed a few times, but it was purely cosmetical. Underneath, all the frame, body structure, powertrain, seat arrangement and even seats themselves weren't changed even a bit through all the years of production.

[@Zaaphod]

I remember Ikarus buses still being used in early 2000s in Bratislava, albeit as a emergency backups. We have this famous line 39, that goes from university dorms. It was always used on that line. I have never seen that bus on a different line other than night service. And since it was used as a backup, that means regular bus broke down and there were some extra students waiting due to gap in schedule... We called them sardine cans, because they were always packed to bursting. But, as another joke went, they had a capacity of n + 1, because no matter how packed it was, somebody always managed to squeeze in. But I liked them on night service, because they were mostly empty then, big, roomy, with surprisingly comfortable seats and a roar of engine kept my drunken ass awake.

[@lkrnpk]

I saw Ikarus bus actually on the city route in Budapest a few years ago :D And it was an older model. When I searched, looks like they retired them in 2022. Definitely an iconic bus, I still remember it fondly as in the late 90s and early 2000s when I was a teen we still had all the Soviet stock of busses on roads in countryside of Latvia so I know these busses well, and LAZ indeed was so much crappier than Ikarus. Ikarus was something sent down from heavens. kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4nKqa1vnbuhgsk

[@Buckshot9796]

I, as a very naive American, loves 'The Ushanka Show' and finds the history of the Soviet Union both fascinating and full of lessons that all countries and peoples could learn from. Дякую велике!

[@datathunderstorm]

Thank you for your great videos. I just subscribed. I was a foreign student in the USSR from 1981 to 1986. First year in Rostov-on Don, then 4 years in Minsk, Belarus. I love automobile technology and loved all the Cars / Buses / Coaches / Trolley Buses and Trams I saw while studying in the USSR. I was privileged to ride on most of these buses. I rode on an Ikarus all the way to Braslav Oblast and back twice. Once in winter, once in summer. Back home, BEFORE I was privileged to travel to the USSR on a scholarship, my dad purchased a Lada Niva around the year 1980 - which I also drove. This video brings back memories! I treasure my studying days in the former USSR - and have always had an affinity for the average Russian citizen. I’m not here to discuss politics…!!! Ignore the people putting your channel down - they don’t get it. I thoroughly enjoy your format - it’s extremely educational - don’t change a thing! 😊👍🏾

[@misterwhipple2870]

Even Putin said: "My heart wants the Soviet Union back, but my head NEVER wants it back!"

[@Goddot]

fair, he really wanted the Tsardom back it seems. Militarily speaking he's there, too.

[@alexandermalinowski4277]

Putin even dares to criticise Lenin for founding Soviet Ukraine! I am afraid that Putin cannot clean shoes to comrade Lenin.

[@RandomDeforge]

really? when? where?

[@misterwhipple2870]

@@RandomDeforge I have been trying to find it, but all I can find is a re-worked Bismarck quote about Socialism. But I remember reading it. Anyway, what does it matter what any Russian says? It only matters what they do.

[@user-lq4rd4hv8h]

These stories always put a smile on my face. If we didn't live through those rough times, we would have no stories to tell. And that's like having no life.

[@lifeontheX]

People are getting upset over a video about a bus??

[@Goddot]

people can get upset about ANYTHING in existence.

[@datathunderstorm]

I think in the present Russo-Ukrainian conflict climate, many have taken to automatically dehumanising anything remotely Russian. This is wrong. I might not be happy with Putin’s policies but I’m not taking it out on ordinary Russian citizens who might not know any better - many do but keep their mouths shut for obvious reasons. I cannot hate on them or even the former Soviet Union. But….this channel isn’t about politics - it’s about life in the former USSR. I lived there in that era - this is a blast from the past for me! Living there helped me see our world from a unique perspective, learn another language, understand other peoples perspectives - even if we agreed to disagree. I lived amongst humans in Russia / Belarus / Ukraine - NOT monsters! Therefore, they all have my respect as fellow humans, regardless of their respective creeds.

[@RandomDeforge]

@@datathunderstorm "I think in the present Russo-Ukrainian conflict climate, many have taken to automatically dehumanising anything remotely Russian." the bus was literally made in UKRAINE. the people being featured "upset over a video about a bus" are typical internet vatniks that gets butthurt and defensive over anything they perceive as critical of soviet era hallucinations. the rest of your word salad has nothing to do with the video nor the topics in the chats. you are projecting things that aren't there.

[@sincerewyd2285]

Love watching nostalgic things from other countries. Especially if the person producing such videos have lived that life style. Hello from Canada! Native american myself and half Ukrainian from Manitoba! Peace and love!

[@BennysBenz]

That comment was unreal. If anything, you are very honest about the CCCP. Always enjoy your content.

[@kevinramsey417]

People accusing him of being a tankie amuses me to no end. He's just telling interesting stories of his experiences growing up in the USSR, nothing else.

[@NormAppleton]

He's kind to the USSR. My favorite is the women in the grocery stores. All those pickles. In Canada, Toronto it's getting hard to find proper Sauerkraut. Lot of great food from Eastern Europe.

[@richardkammerer2814]

The Ushanka Show comments section is a true open forum. I think it adds to the flavor of this channel. It is never, ever boring and I’m glad I bumped into this channel.

[@jhoncho4x4]

Early rear gasoline engined US made buses also had some cooling issues; the more thermal efficient GM diesel buses helped.

[@paulsherick1979]

I really enjoy these stories.. Thanks Comrade Sergei

[@UshankaShow]

My pleasure!

[@thetrainhopper8992]

A better English equivalent is probably "soul sucking". Meaning it crushed you psychologically as well as physically from the heat.

[@datathunderstorm]

Yes! 😅

[@obsidianjane4413]

The "Fan mail" is becoming the most entertaining part of your videos. The rest is just very informative.

[@jeffbreezee]

I rode on these buses many times when I visited Ukraine back in the early 2000s.

[@kanakidisfilms]

Greetings from Bulgaria. I really enjoy your show. Keep up the good work!!!

[@swampwillow]

I love your videos, the soviet union looks cool but I don't want it back. 🇺🇦 ❤

[@antoniocavalli5474]

Laz 695n I remember this bus I am born in 1989 and my school had one in lithuania kaunas city in my middleschool. They used this bus to take us to swimming pool in other school. I was maybe 10 yrs old so it was in around 2000's. Pretty rough times. But it was fun back in the day. Same as living in ussr for our parents. It was a nightmare comparing to west, but that was their youth and that was the best they had, they didnt know any better.

[@kensukefan47]

Bro, you're screaming.

[@richardkammerer2814]

lol, I used to get E-MAILS LIKE THIS all the time from somebody at work. I’m not tossing out accusations, but that person had great difficulty understanding technical concepts.

[@antoniocavalli5474]

@@kensukefan47 better now?

[@rdallas81]

Not screaming. Who cares what size the letters are? People are so soft these days😂😂😂😂

[@antoniocavalli5474]

@@rdallas81 big part are soft. but most of them are just plain morons, without any common sense and full of hate

[@SlackActionBumble]

I don't know why Soviet Union is this subject where you either have to be 100% love or 100% hate. It was a complicated country with many problems but some good qualities. Just like literally every other country.

[@Zaaphod]

Hm... If you 100% hate it, you were most probably occupied by it (Czechoslovak here, I started in that position too) but never went there. If you loved it, you only knew it from propaganda, but never visited. Those with mixed feeling either lived there, knew somebody who lived there or visited for, well, more than a week. Or, like me, did their reading. So this love/hate relationship is mostly born from ignorance.

[@Radi0he4d1]

Like they've done urbanism super well for the time... because they knew no one was getting a car. Completely backwards logic but it worked!

[@datathunderstorm]

I lived and studied there from 1981 to 1986. I do not hate Russia. I have learned to disconnect the ordinary Russian citizen from Russian politics because for better or worse - they were along for the ride and had to make peace with what ruled them. Sergei simply tells it like it was - it’s as simple as that. He isn’t pro anything. He grew up there and is giving us the privilege of his time living there as a Soviet citizen. I lived there too. There were things I loved and some things I didn’t - but I always remember the good times! That was a part of my life too!

[@ezbody]

It really depends where in the USSR you lived, during which time period, and who you/your parents were.

[@prismpyre7653]

It does not speak well of our western supposedly democratic culture that you could get this much frothing-mad hostility from so many people literally just for sharing memories of your childhood and indulging in nostalgia the way literally everyone else does.

[@DerekCully]

The Soviet Union was so bad, for those before this KZbinr…I can’t blame the detractors, too much…

[@americanmade4791]

It's because he refuses to remember things the way they want him to. Those people would like him to cut away pages of his memory and paste in replacement pages that they provide. (Sound familiar?)

[@Mortablunt]

That’s because our western culture is imperialistic and hegemonic, and cannot tolerate any alternative to a capitalist, secularists oligarchic world order based around the enrichment of the western imperial core and subjugation of all other ideologies and cultures to the commercial Atlanticist culture. If you don’t believe me, look at how they stirred up everybody into a frothing hatred of Afghanistan, for 30 years and tiny country that had no way of ever competing with us or hurting us, and yet it whipped us into such a frenzy, we spent more than 20 years starving it, occupying it, and killing hundreds of thousands of its people for a crime it didn’t even commit. Do you want a better illustration watch the Doctor Sarah Paine lecture about Vladimir Putin, and every time a non-western culture or system comes up her tone brclmes is such that ‘the only reason anyone would want or put up in such a system is because they are a stupid jerk who likes being poor and miserable for no reason because they are dumb and evil,’ more or less.

[@RandomDeforge]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="60">1:00</a> that was quite a mindfunkingly Olympic-grade level of mental gymnastics. wow.

[@gordslater]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="662">11:02</a> - there was a commissar standing there in those boots but Stalin had him killed and the negative was altered to delete him

[@bobfitzpatrick8952]

I chuckled when you used the word "cattle car" - in the army we had something we called that, but it was basically a truck with the trailer converted into sort of a bus.

[@Varnaj42]

I was in the army in the 1950s. Those cattle busses were all over the place. They used to shuttle soldiers back and forth from the base to town. They were so ugly the local town mayer told the army not to use them in the daytime.

[@bobfitzpatrick8952]

@@Varnaj42 My main memory was the shouting and how fast we could get on and off ::laughs::

[@jonthinks6238]

"Cattle Cars" is what they were called in the 80s army. Ithink I remember 40 troops with gear, and 80 all standing no seltsam. Oh, those were the days. 😅

[@vintageelektro5437]

I hated these LAZ 695 buses, not only because of the heat and the stench of petrol, but also because it meant traveling along dusty country gravel roads at 40km/h and stopping in villages every few kilometres. So, instead of 60 kilometers on a straight road, the journey by hard bus could took about 2.5 hours instead an hour. Of course, the other bus options (at least in Lithuania) weren't good either - as a child, I nearly always vomited when traveling in a "soft" Ikarus 250 (despite this was coolest, largest, nearly foreign busses and dream of every boy to be ikarus driver). But for me their soft pneumatic suspension + strong greasy, sweet smell of diesel smoke was a bad combination. There were also laz "turist" soft buses, they were also definitely were not cold and smelled of gasoline and burning brake pads on the slopes, but at least the seats were quite comfortable and the suspension was softer (albeit with leaf springs). And the remaining option suburban ikarus ("orange", two-door) the main feature of no heating in winter and frozen windows (stolen or non-working auxiliary heaters? So cold because interior heating were independent of the engine cooling system). Also nearly always buses was overcrowded with standing peoples and they has underpowered engines (even Ikarus had rather weak non turbo diesels), so sometimes overcoming some hills was noisy, smelly and slow.

[@andreioliveira720]

Thank you for your time and attention, publishing this content for us to get to know more about the soviet universe I'm surely not the only one who appreciates the content, enjoy it or learn from it Please keep doing them!

[@n990]

I rode on the Ikarus busses in Budapest… road them everywhere!

[@darth_art_galaxydag]

such open compart engines are common in indian city buses as well , i can say this coz i am from india

[@kcgunesq]

All I can contribute is to say that when I traveled around the Soviet Union in the late 80's, our Intourist busses didn't strike me as old fashioned as far as I can recall. I don't remember ever being hot or not having air conditioning. Obviously, those buses were much newer than the ones you are showing and the best buses were likely reserved for hard currency tourist.

[@UshankaShow]

Absolutely. Foreign tourists were getting the newest and the best buses. Ikarus in the major cities and LAZ - Turist "plush" bus everywhere else.

[@absurdist5134]

It's like a toned down version of what NK does now. Everything is shown to be great and better than the west, a lot of stuff was said to be really good, then turned out in reality not so much.

[@belstar1128]

a lot of modern busses in western Europe don't have air conditioning probably because it only gets hot enough to justify it for just a few days a year

[@hailexiao2770]

@@belstar1128 Local buses or intercity coaches? I have a hard time believing the latter don't have AC because with large, often inoperable windows, the inside can overheat even when it's 10C outside.

[@bahnspotterEU]

@@hailexiao2770 Coaches have AC, and modern city buses also now have AC, but only since very recently.

[@Radi0he4d1]

Had a chance to ride these back in the day... These were definitely sit down and ride intercity commute busses.The ones I rode were red and white

[@OSTARAEB4]

At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="658">10:58</a>, those mustard yellow buses were quite popular in Moscow in 1991. Saint Petersburg, then Leningrad as you know had more modern Ikarus buses from memory. New York City had those narrow entrances and exits on the old, noisy green buses from about 1963-circa 1981 and nobody wanted to sit in the back engine seat. They belched a lot of exhaust and were quite loud too. NYC didn’t get low entrance/exit reticulated buses until early 2000’s. I thought the Soviet bus here looked great but I really liked seeing the occasional ZIL limousines. Good job Sergei.

[@josephjohnson9805]

This is the bus type that was in the movie the comrades of summer. A lovely bus. Over heating and hot I think so. I believe this started as a project to reverse engineer a white bus but they kept adding on to it. So truly a unique soviet bus.

[@peterpanini96]

That bus had like 80hp... 😂😂😂 msximum speed like 70kmh downhill. 😅i do remember those we also had 3 trabants until late 2000s.

[@anonime_dancer]

this bus was ideal for long lines, to connect different town districts, or villages with town.

[@ptonpc]

Fascinating stuff. Ignore the haters. Some people just like to 'mump their gums' . Make noise without knowing what they are talking about.

[@konstantingroove]

I remember i used to live up on a hill and take one on those buses to go home. Imagine that thing climbing a 45% slope... Sometime it would stall right in the middle, roll all the way back to the foot of the hill, start up again and try to climb again. Sometimes it would stall more that once lol The name of the route was Route No. 21, we used to joke about it. In Russian 21 also stands for "ochko", or butthole i think that derived from a card game somehow lol

[@meatbyproducts]

I spent 2021 in the Lviv area. I loved it. Best place for food.

[@absurdist5134]

People are crazy in comment sections on any site. I wouldn't worry too much about the crap. It's disrespectful but, eh, There's more than enough people that appreciate you sharing your knowledge, experience and stories from these periods in Russia.

[@timothynolan7250]

Dont let the haters get to you! Keep trucking man!

[@kolasillers7776]

Rear seats was my favourite place.

[@antontsau]

Wrong translation. Yes, Душегубка, but it can not be translated as Soulkiller. May be human slaughterer or something like this, without mistic accent. The problem with engine was not because it is city bus, but because its terrible ZIL petrol (!!!!) V8 engine from 1950s, working on A76 petrol so extremely ineffective, gobbles petrol like steel elephant with most of energy goes to heat. It always overheated on any machine - trucks ZIL, buses LIAZ and LAZ, in summer conditions its unevitable. And - why it is "dushegubka" - carburetor engine always emited huge volume of carbon monoxide. LIAZ never had real low floor. It had middle floor (big entry step from ground level) only on back, the most of compartment was above transmission with 2 steps front door. Hungarian Ikarus was even worse, it had 2 steps everywhere as even engine was hidden below the main floor. But no one cared much about it even is city use, as the main advantage of Ikarus was its diesel engine, sooty and loud but at least it was diesel, it did not poison driver and passengers, and it was much more powerful than petrol Zil.

[@MM22966]

Sergei getting into flamewars with these college-raised neo-communists is kind of funny. Here's a guy who actually lived in it, he says it sucks, he shows evidence, and they don't believe him.

[@vaninec]

i remember those buses, you never sit on back! too much exhaust gases that why some call dusha gubka. Thanks Spasibo tovarisch

[@donaldkamenik9412]

These buses were of terrible quality. When a new bus arrived at the bus park from the factory, the bus was literally dismantled into parts and reassembled. The body of the bus was reinforced with welds, the engine and gearbox were taken apart and reassembled, all threaded joints were tightened, the electrical system was reassembled, and only after that the bus could be put on the line. I remember that this bus often had a strong gasoline whine, especially in the hot summer.

[@obywatelcane6775]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="772">12:52</a> - looks similar to Polish Autosan H9.

[@davidhudson5452]

Busses are side draft cooling, on highway they do fine hot in city Put a hot box in a box thats what you get .Drove them for 19 years

[@cameronlilly4814]

Enjoyable episode.

[@NickB1967]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="30">0:30</a> where did that lady come from? If anything, Sergei is hardcore ANTI-Soviet, having lived through it.

[@johnsmith-ht3sy]

In the famous bus picture you can see a young passenger looking back at the photographer, obviously he had an expensive Nikon Hasselblad Camera non Soviet camera that the passenger noticed.

[@andrefiset3569]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="550">9:10</a> Very nice curtains in that hard bus, curtains are a deficit item who was stolen?

[@UshankaShow]

I believe those are new, added after modern-day remodeling. Firm buses had no curtains, as I recall.

[@obywatelcane6775]

In Poland buses and trains always had curtains. And they were designed in such pattern that even if somebody stole them, they would be of no use at home. Train ones were gray-brownish and had little letters PKP, PKP, PKP, PKP printed on them, and bus ones were similar, but said PKS 🙂PKP - Polskie Koleje Państwowe = Polish State Railways, PKS - Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacji Samochodowej = Car Transport Company.

[@jacob221100]

Ohhh now thats a blast from past i remember Icarus when i was kid , they were in use until early 2000s the ones i remmeber had a deeep red ish color , but yea we called the long ones Harmonika too so acordeon.

[@jonthinks6238]

I have watched your channel for a couple of years and have watched your old ones as well. I think its great that you use your editors voice overs for the nasty people that attack you. Some are so slow they don't understand that you are attacked from all sides. 😅

[@Lex5576]

Damn, and we thought the Thomas Saf-T-Liner school bus was bad in the 1980s. At least a Thomas had big padded seats. The new Thomas C2s have air conditioning. The Soviet concept of busing it's people is the same concept Americans had for transporting pigs and cattle.......fuck comfort, just get them from point A to point B.

[@shatnermohanty6678]

😂😂

[@anthonyruby2668]

Comrade Sergei worked with intercity kids from Chicago, so I bet he knows the mass transit lingo! I am from Chicago, and I still got into arguments over CTA names and terms!

[@nigozeroichi2501]

Your english is much better than a lot of people who were born raised and educated in the USA.

[@randallmunson2098]

Have good memories of buses …. especially day in Junior High when we stole roll of paper towels and released the paper towel out the window of the school bus. About 50 feet of paper towel flying in the wind behind bus until it started to rain and towel landed on windshield of police car. Cop pulls the bus over and he was as red as a beet. He was just seconds away from having a stroke !

[@Vtarngpb]

Damn, Comrade Sergei be dropping names, like a… bus? 😂

[@kolasillers7776]

Been in both of them .City bus and Turist" bus.

[@supercommie]

Omg, I'm from Lviv, I had no idea LAZ was manufactured there.

[@user-he5so4gz4r]

I justmsaid," dushegubka" to my missus who grew up in Latvia then part of the USSR. It threw her, she was in her own world when I said it. She said, 'stoi".

[@charliemarkovic4301]

Are you still alive? 😂

[@sch0neDK]

Thank you for your videos of everyday life in the Soviet Union. I was born in 1972 and grew up in the west, so i find your videos very interesting. I don't find your videos pro communisme. I se them as educational, seen from a person who expierensed it. I have only visited two Soviet cities. Moscow and Tallin and found it very interesting. Moskow vas just a big city, but Tallin has a very pretty mideviel city center. I visited the Hotel VIRU, where we saw the old KGB rooms and all. Thank you again. Please keep making theese videos 🙂

[@johngorentz6409]

Soul-shriveler might work, too. Bonus: It has a touch of alliteration.

[@radiorob7543]

Thank you for bringing all this to us. All great topics. I subbed a long time ago. That guy who says you're pro Communist is crazy. Ther's always at least one in a crowd.

[@ottopartz1]

Thank you for another interesting video John Wayne Cheeseburger!!

[@jpotter2086]

Nice curtains! It's curtains ... CURTAINS! ... for you on the soulkiller!

[@rdallas81]

Curtains for you, kid!

[@NQR-9000]

Well, not a great bus... but at least, the old model had opening windows, unlike our reliable but horribly uncomfortable, vibrating and equipped with sticky orange "skai" fake leather seats Van Hool bus here in Belgium during the same era 😅

[@Snufkin812]

I am a bus fan and I have never ridden in them but I love many buses from the Soviet era. I love the Laz 695 along with the Ikarus 250 (or 256) and the Liaz 677. To be exact, the 695N model with red or blue stripes. Those buses may be technically inferior, but they are very nostalgic and beautiful in design! As far as I know, you are the best Soviet storyteller! You told me everything about life in the USSR and now you are making a video about buses. I get angry when I see people leaving bad comments about you. I am sure they are American boomers who grew up in anti-Soviet education and enjoy criticizing everything about communism. The USSR has been gone for 33 years and arguments and accusations are meaningless anymore. Please watch the video from a historical perspective without ideological and political feelings.

[@leifgustafson5730]

Good video. I enjoyed it.

[@andyreynolds6194]

Spasiba tovarich Sergei.

[@janviljoen-rm8zs]

good video.

[@TS84NO]

It's weird how some people aren't able to understand that people can have different opinions about the same thing, and people can have different memories from the same experiense 🙈

[@user-ok2fe6vv4e]

great post as always. dont let the critics put you down. the world needs to know and never forget how awful the USSR life was..

[@gordonwebster3809]

nice looking buses they are i am 72 should have seen some of the buses in uk belching black smoke out dont take any notice of any one with negative thoughts.

[@cmpunkvilkelis1983]

I think you have talked a lot things about Soviet Union, but one thing you haven't yet is ecology in USSR and would like to hear about it.

[@AR15.666]

People getting this upset over small things is really saying something about their personalities.

[@deanromania6748]

Hey, Sergey! Nice video about the legendary Laz 695. As a Romanian, I would like to know what was your (and other people's) opinion about the Romanian-made Dac 217E articulated trolleybuses which were used in Kyiv between 1988 and 2009, as it's interesting that you guys had them over there because they weren't exported generally speaking, but rather used internally, the last ones being taken out of public service in 2022 (when some of them were already 30 years old).

[@telesniper2]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="508">8:28</a> OH!! Like the Soviet economy in 1980s!

[@vadim6385]

In 1980s, yellow/orange license plates were for cars that belonged to foreign citizens. Saw quite a lot of them in late 80s - early 90s in Kiev

[@Varnaj42]

This 88 year old still keeps an apartment in the city of Kherson, UA. The Russians (Orcs we call them) shell the city every day and night for no apparent reason as there is no military there, no active industry and now no shopping center. Our one and only indoor shopping center (Fabrika) was blown up by Putin's boys one day when they had nothing better to do we suppose. My apartment is still intact. All my new furniture, air conditioning, new vinal framed windows and balcony enclosures are still there. But my dacha was washed away when the river dam was breeched. We even have an elevator. Debit cards are used to operate it but if we had kids along then when we arrived home we adults would get into the lift then sent the kids running up the stairs to hit the "call" button. This way we got a free ride to our floor. Life over there is pretty good if you're a pensioner and have money. I like it that shopping is all within an easy walk. Mini busses to the center stops across the street. Restaurants near by. We had no use for a car. I don't keep one there. OK so my apartment building sports a kind of industrial look but it's solid. Some of the slightly older ones were named after Nikita Khrushchev. They were build solid too, just like their namesake. I hope to return after the war is won. All will be well. At least I hope so. It'll be nice to return to winter heating that barely warms the radiators in our apartment and the need to filter city water out of fear of bacteria but those are minor difficulties. Everything else is fine. Those who call you liar and scumbag... well I'll give them bonus points for spelling their insults correctly. But those losers probably have never been farther from home than the welfare office and don't know any better. Good that you post their rants. Pretty funny to see such evidence of pampered ignorance. ha ha

[@olliefoxx7165]

You accuse others of propaganda than spew propaganda yourself. Ukraine isn't a democracy. Zelensky banned all political opposition, seized their assets and jailed their leaders. The Kiev regime seized churches, banned their congregations from meeting, jailed preists/nuns. The Kiev regime bans any criticism of the govt and doesn't allow independent media. The Kiev regime seized all media outlets. Gonzola Lira, an American journalist was tortured and died in a Ukrainian prison for reporting the truth. You know you can't say anything negative about the Zelensky govt in Ukraine or you will be arrested.

[@rdallas81]

Sorry to hear you can't access your apartment. Sorry to hear this war impacts so many who just want to live life in peace. Government have always been the scourge of the people all around the world.. Blessings from USA

[@Varnaj42]

@@rdallas81 When there were two people in the world all was well, pretty much. As soon as there were three the arguments began. Now we've refined ourselves by creating governments. Who needs them anyway? Whd do they serve? No one seems to know, exactly. But good and bad they do reflect us most of the time. The perfect government? One with no police or military. No big shot riding around in a fancy car that he or she did not have to pay for with his own labour. Make national leaders, presidents, PMs mow their own lawns and wash their own dishes and watch as the world begins to change. But in our world each human being is a universe unto him or her self. We can ride a bus en masse but spiritual development is a lonely road. Thanks for the reply.

[@iri1088]

For the algorithm 😅

[@dominykasgelgota3296]

As im finishing profesion school in Kaunas,Lithuania around 2009 remember Ikarus very well,those machines survived until that time.

[@Nookdashiddole]

It's a high performance machine, so I have to fill it with premium

[@johnkirkby4959]

Thank you. I found your narration very entertaining. I see the LAZ 695 utilized at least 6 different motors over the years....half used gasoline/petrol and the rest used fuel oil/diesel....were they air cooled?

[@elilawhorn3724]

Great vid

[@JoeyBelgier]

Super informative! Got to love how you deal with Reddit xd

[@Phiyedough]

Rear engine layout also seems to be the standard for American buses so I wonder if they can also get exhaust fumes into the passenger compartment?

[@kookamunga2458]

I take newer busses every day in Canada and maybe twice a year the exhaust still manages to make it into the passenger compartment.

[@gregant9864]

This Bus is very similar to Polish bus " AUTOSAN"

[@michaela.178]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="275">4:35</a> I remember yellow license plates although from the late 80s and the Moscow area - yellow license plates were issued to foreigners

[@phils473]

Troll Neduard appears to be trying to think of the marshurtka, which is a (usually crowded) mini-bus. Think of a Sprinter but really run-down and cramped. Why can't trolls ever seem to spell right? 🤔

[@ezbody]

My stomach still remembers these busses. 🙂

[@HandFromCoffin]

I love this guy.. saying it was produced until 2010 isn't the flex you thing it is.

[@UshankaShow]

Ural motorcycles are being manufactured even now but it doesn't mean it's an outstanding bike.

[@Three60Mafia]

I think a better term is the 'slowcooker' or "airfryer" - also remember that "душa" was used back then to refer to just people when counting them - on planes, boats etc. Cколько душ на борту? so overall the term is probably just "people-killer" or the "suffocator"

[@ABW941]

As far as i know the SFR YU imported similar busses, so i wonder if the USSR had those busses where they had a small table around the middle of the bus, where someone was sitting and taking care of paperwork, selling certain tickets etc. ?

[@dlxmarks]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="136">2:16</a> "If it was such a soul killer and an example of Soviet negligence of regular people, how come it was produced up until 2010?" Probably because Soviet negligence had been replaced by Russian negligence of regular people. 🤣

[@kensukefan47]

LAZ was a factory in Western Ukraine (L standing for Lvov) Common Russophobe L

[@dlxmarks]

@@kensukefan47 Manufactured in Ukraine to a Soviet design and used throughout the Commonwealth of Independent States especially in Russia. You really think the Ukrainian domestic market could support LAZ/DAZ's output on its own? Are you in Russia? If so, which VPN do you recommend to get around the government's throttling of KZbin? I understand if it takes you a while to respond.😂

[@kensukefan47]

@@dlxmarks now you're just coping. Russians had already LiAZ at the time, so basically yes, Ukrainian domestic market could support LAZ at the time. (Ukraine is a pretty big country, I know the American mind can't comprehend public transport) So before laughing about "stupid ruskies", do some research next time.

[@kensukefan47]

@@dlxmarks LAZ covered Ukrainian market (they didn't produce that much busses after "independence"), Russian's had already LiAZ at the time. Better do some research next time, before laughing about "stupid ruskies" again.

[@kensukefan47]

@@dlxmarks @dlxmarks LAZ could completely cover Ukrainian market (they didn't produce that much busses after "independence"), Russian's had already LiAZ at the time. Better do some research next time) It's still a Russophobe L

[@InstaLabSparti]

please do a video about soviet trolleybus we had in Athens Greece during the 80s 90s. They had a hilarious medal inside in greek about an award the factory had received. It was something in the line " the medal of lenin was awarded to the peoples factory" but was translated like the had google translate back then! (also Athens at the same time had icarus buses and they had a sticker back that read "my brakes are Greek"and that fast became a joke!

[@jamallabarge2665]

> - things are a little different around here since I last visited. I had to look this up. I have a Ukrainian colleague who despises hearing Russian spoken. I'll try this one.

[@belstar1128]

isn't this so much better than a car