“We held first AutoBloggerShow and managed to gather well-known automobile bloggers, experts of the industry and a lot of car enthusiasts, travelers and many other people together at the event. We showed some vehicles that we considered unique and granted unique emotions to people: excitement about projects and show cars made by bloggers, excitement about expeditions undertaken by those cars, as well as excitement and warm feeling of nostalgia for classic Soviet cars. We demonstrated the most diverse cars, many of which were one-of-a-kind. We are sure, it’s a start of a long and interesting journey. We’ll definitely go on working in this area to arrange many other fascinating projects,” Alexey Valkov, a representative of AutoBloggerShow’s organizers, noted.

Over 120 means of transport took part in the exhibition part of the Show, including legendary retro classics of the Russia, American and German car industry, exhibition show cars, actual participants of car expeditions, counting off-highway vehicles, professional sports cars and designer's tuning projects of famous Russian automobile bloggers.

AutoBloggerShow was attended by more than 50 famous automobile bloggers from 11 Russian cities.

Velgutsgarage presented a legendary Yellow Niva for the exposition – the Russian Raptor built by blogger AcademeG (Konstantin Zarutsky).

Famous blogger AvtoValera presented a car based on GAZ 66 to resemble American Hammer.

OffroadSPB presented a unique Bentley built by Jagger Garage, a car service center focused on custom car assembly.

Ilkin Mamishev from Black&WhiteTeam presented three vehicles at the event, including Mercedes-Benz W140 widely-known among his subscribers.

Two tuning projects competed for a title of the loudest sound: for two days of the event guests and participants of AutoBloggerShow were entertained by Loudsound spb and AZ-13 SPL POWER due to the most powerful loudspeakers installed inside and outside their cars.

As for the smallest cars presented at the exposition of the Show, there was an Oka fully converted for living in it by Veliky Vasya; a 1968 SMZ S-3A built by the Serpukhov Automobile Plant and exhibited by Velgutsgarage, and a mini Volga by AMI.

The highest car of AutoBloggerShow was BIGZHIGA by the Carville automotive repair school. The jury of the Russian Book of Records recognized it the highest Zhigului car of modified structure that had also ridden over 32 cars during an hour to set the first record in its kind. Grigory Burlutsky, a regular pilot of the Carville Racing sport racing team and a participant of the Russian Circuit Racing Series, was in a driver’s seat of unique Zhiguli.

The Typhoon off roader deserved the title of the one with the largest wheels at AutoBloggerShow, since their diameter was 165 centimeters.

The exhibition featured cars that once had taken part in actual automobile expeditions: three cars belonging to Bogdan Bulychev (Best Blogger, winner of the Moscow Mayor Cup, the first Internet Award; and the first person in the world who had reached the North Pole on a bicycle), particularly, two Arctic Toyotas and the black Land Cruiser 200 – a tuning project by SHIKARI fully born on YouTube. Also, there was Toyota Land Cruiser 200 (that had already endured 11 expeditions, three of them – to the Arctic) of Sergey Saiman, an automotive traveler and blogger, and a Lada Granta of Karelopithecus that had made it from Petrozavodsk to Kaliningrad in 60 days.

Particular interest, especially among children, was provoked with a car of Ivan Kurbenin, a distinguished sportsman and a RDS (Russian Drift Series) pilot: a Dodge Viper modified in the stylistics of Lightning McQueen, a well-known animation character.

Also, at AutoBloggerShow auto racing was represented with rally clubs that arranged retro rallies, such as Leningrad or Rally of the World, as well as with cars of the Ladoga Trophy International Off-Road Festival.

Maria Nait, a leader of the ddKaba racing team and an automobile blogger, together with her team presented the original ddKaba project – Flanker F, a 640HP Russian hypercar of their own construction.

A largescale display of retro cars was presented by Velgutsgarage, bloggers of the Made in USSR channel and Retro Bus, a company that showed legendary buses of the Soviet era.

A full-fledged AutoArtShow took place at AutoBloggerShow: artists manually painted two classic Zaporozhets cars. ZAZ vehicles previously painted at the AutoArtParty in Moscow were also presented at the event along with a Zaporozhets car painted by the Mitki Creative Association that had been the most outstanding exhibit item of the October Motors Automuseum.

All the painted car will be sold at the online auction on the platform of the Litfund Auction House on November 28. All proceeds will be passed over for charity to the Saint Petersburg hospice, the Life Line Charity Foundation for saving seriously ill children and the Friends Foundation for development the Moscow school of professional philanthropy.

In the framework of the interactive Business Program of AutoBloggerShow 19 events took place, including sessions dedicated to car mechanics and tuning, autotourism and auto racing, as well as multiple presentations of projects by bloggers and automotive travelers, fan meetings and autograph sessions where they answered the most interesting questions of their audience.

“Participation in such events gives a completely different experience than one obtained online. It’s an opportunity to look at other people’s projects ‘from the inside’, an opportunity to gain experience from your counterparts. You’ll never see it on YouTube. In this respect, offline is irreplaceable, and it’s necessary to take part in it at least once a year,” blogger AcademeG (Konstantin Zarutsky) commented his participation in AutoBloggerShow. He demonstrated his famous projects in the framework of the exposition of the event: an Antigelic (UAZ Hunter) and a ZIL car with a 600-horsepower BMW X5 engine.

At the session “A Voice of Garages” speakers discussed trends of the global car industry; innovations in automobile construction and their application in production of series models; prospects of auto tuning development and rules of car modification certification. The panel was attended by famous bloggers such as Konstantin Zarutsky (AcademeG) and Vladimir Garage 54, as well as Andrey Vasilyev, Director of the Technical Examination Center under the FSUE “NAMI” State Research Center of the Russian Federation; Andrey Pankovsky, Chairman of the Russian Automobile Federation Classic Car Committee; Dmitry Oktyabrsky, Director of the October Motors Automuseum, and Maria Nait, a leader of the ddKaba racing team. The discussion was moderated by Mikhail Khomich, Permanent Representative for the Head of the Udmurt Republic under the President of the Russian Federation – Deputy Prime Minister.

Interest to autotourism has increased significantly in Russia over the last years. It’s linked with a few factors: the import of foreign cars to the Russian market has grown; cars have become more comfortable and reliable; there are more and more young people among motorists. Also, it’s pretty important that a whole area of autotourism has emerged with people who promote this kind of leisure activities.

In the framework of the session on autotourism extreme travelers and motorist bloggers shared their experience of travelling comfortably by various means of transport and driving development of this sector in Russia. The event was attended by Dmitry Drozd, founder of the Wildway project; Sergey Saiman, a researcher, traveler and blogger; Bogdan Bulychev, a blogger and the first person in the world who had reached the North Pole on a bicycle; Sergey Lobarev, President of the All-National Association of Autotourism and Caravanning; and Pavel Sadchikov, a member of the Work Group on Autotourism Development in Russia under the Committee on Physical Fitness, Sports and Youth Affairs of the RF State Duma of the Federal Assembly.

“Any developments should be started with your own self. To achieve large media reach you need to create a quality product. The main objective of an influencer is a desire to make others ‘get on their feet from a coach’ and turn to action,” Bogdan Bulychev noted in the framework of the session.

The exhibition part of the event featured a stand of A-Glamp, a comfortable and stylish eco-camp for glamping located in the Leningrad Region.

Prospects of auto racing were discussed during the session “Floor it” that was attended by Andrey Pankovsky, Chairman of the Russian Automobile Federation Classic Car Committee; Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Head of the Ladoga Trophy International Off-Road Festival; Lina Arnautova, Media Director and Head of Press Service of the Silk Way International Rally; Evgeny Soroka, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Automobile Federation Classic Car Committee; Kyury Usmanov, organizer of the Rally of the World motor rally; Alexander Terentyev, Head of the Leningrad rally. The session was moderated by automobile blogger Pyotr Menshikh, also Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors, Za Rulem Publishing Holding, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Pyatoe Koleso Publishing House. Participants of the session discussed prospects of development for auto racing in Russia and on the global level; spoke on achievements of our sportsmen and methods used to popularize auto racing among the population.

Presentations and fan meetings where bloggers talked to the audience in an informal setting were attended by AcademeG (Konstantin Zarutsky), Batya (Vitaly Orekhov), Sergey Saiman, Bogdan Bulychev, Siberian Beard, Vladimir Garage 54, NK_Kolesa (Viktor), Iling Show, Master Mehanik and Maks Zhluktov.

“If you want to create YouTube is for you. In my opinion, it’s a platform to promote your talents. However, it’s important to remember that to attract and engage viewers on your channel you need to be involving and charismatic,” blogger Batya (Vitaly Orekhov) noted speaking about prospects of the modern blogging.

Also, an interactive area for games arranged by Cyber Legacy, a partner of Business Priority, an innovative platform of the Roscongress Foundation, functioned at AutoBloggerShow. Guests of the event could visit a VR zone to feel like race drivers with a help of a steering wheel simulator, entertain themselves with classic games on PlayStation 4 or just relax in the Cyber Legacy lounge area. A feeling of a cybersport festival was reinforced with striking cosplayers who looked as if they had come to the EXPOFORUM Convention and Exhibition Center from computer games.

“Car brands actively ‘enter’ the cybersport industry finding new audience here. Cybersport marketing experts develop successful integrations even for the premium segment,” Vladislav Grechkin, CEO of Cyber Legacy, comments. “Our participation in AutoBloggerShow is another step toward synergy of various industries, various interests and audiences.”

Official website of AutoBloggerShow: autobloggershow.ru

Official Instagram of the event: instagram.com/autobloggershow