VAZ-2121 "Niva" - a four-seater off-road passenger car has been produced by the Volga Automobile Plant since 1977. This car was specially designed for off-road driving, traveling to hard-to-reach places, hunting and fishing trips. Niva-2121 at that time had a very progressive design, combining excellent off-road performance with the comfort of a passenger car, and had practically no analogues in the world at that time, which made it possible to successfully export cars to many countries. For off-road vehicles before the Niva, only the English Range Rover had this! VAZ-2121 became one of the first representatives of the now so popular "parquet" SUVs.