photo by Dmitry TYURIN
In the direction of fantasy and hyperbole. But the fact that here, in Irbit, a “priceless meeting” has formed - no exaggeration. All over the world there are only ten operating companies that started making motorcycles before 1945. Only ten! Motorcycle factory in Irbit in this elite club. So he can look down on the "rootless", without the roots of Japanese motor giants. I give the "chip" to the marketing department of IMZ!
Irbit is a special city, with its unique history and unique aura. Will you find many cities in Russia with a population of less than 50, 000, in which there would be a theater, three museums and two exhibition halls? And here they are. And the motorcycle museum is from the same range of cultural phenomena. After all, in our country, motorcycle plants were both more powerful and older - but where is their history embodied in steel? It’s not there, everyone broke it, pulled it apart, rare exhibits flowed out, as the water through Irkutsk’s fingers turned out to be wiser, and now they have such a museum that sophisticated Europeans and Americans only enviously grunt. Imagine, even motorcycles of the 30s that were brought during the evacuation of the Moscow Motor Plant in 1941 were preserved in the exposition!
