Soviet technology conquers the swamp - homemade versus factory model

What Soviet vehicle is the most cross-country? Surprisingly, most people answer "Niva". And when creating the VAZ-2121, the goal was not to make an SUV. It's just a passenger car car increased cross-country ability. Soviet engineers took on the project so zealously that the car turned out to be legendary. The first crossover in the world, it is still being produced, there are many fan clubs... The second one that comes to mind is the UAZ of the average model. And if you do not limit yourself to passenger cars? Especially since there are few of them, off-road ones, in the USSR? Then they call GAZ-66, ZIL-131 or 157 and "Ural". It is not entirely clear whether the latter is meant gasoline or diesel. They also remember KrAZ, the one called "Laptezhnik".

But the USSR didn't produce specialized equipment for roads at all. These were tracked vehicles. all-terrain vehicles different models. They are capable of operating in the harshest conditions - it is not for nothing that such machines were loved by geologists and oil workers, and they still are. It is generally accepted that a serial factory SUV is inferior to a homemade one. Is this true in relation to tracked vehicles? It seems that Soviet engineers in this industry were making the ideal. Of course, for their time and taking into account the availability of units of those years. The authors of the channel "Polygon-98" decided to test tracked vehicles in a swamp. One of the machines is factory, and the second is homemade. Who will be better - see for yourself.