Brezhnev’s Mercedes-Benz went up for auction in Moscow 13:23

On November 23, the Literary Fund auction will be held, whose participants will be able to purchase a Mercedes-Benz car belonging to the former General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev. about this to write On the website of the Litfond auction house. The starting price of the lot is 28 million rubles.

“The car is a rare historical asset of the 20th century,” the message explains.

It is known that a specially equipped Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC sedan was presented to Leonid Brezhnev as a gift during the official visit to Germany to sign the Moscow Treaty in 1973. Brezhnev later transferred the four-seater German coupe to his best friend, Igor Shchelokov, son of former USSR Minister of Internal Affairs Nikolai Shchelokov, the car had been kept in their family since 1980.

Before that, the former Mercedes-Benz factory in Russia launched GLC and E-Class models. It was reported that the cars were offered for sale at a price of 9.7 million rubles. The holding did not confirm information about the assembly of Mercedes-Benz at a factory in Russia, but plans to restart the business were previously reported.

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Source: Gazeta

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