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These ‘sweepers’ and ‘sprinklers’ kept Soviet streets clean (PHOTOS) Check out these vintage shots of what street cleaning trucks looked like in the USSR.
The task of keeping Soviet streets and public spaces looking in order fell to the communal services, which worked with vehicles that Russians often gave funny names to (that don’t really translate well into English!) due to their appearance.
The “weaponry” was usually installed onto a simple truck chassis.
One of the first such trucks was the PU-2, based on the GAZ-AA truck. It was this vehicle that lay the foundation for the large family of Soviet communal cleaning trucks that followed.