The ZiL: Limousine To The Soviet Elite

President Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first post-Soviet leader, arriving for a state visit to Italy in February 1998.

President Dmitry Medvedev (right) and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger arrive in a vintage Soviet-era Chaika at the Skolkovo technology center on the outskirts of Moscow in October 2010.

Acting Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov rides in an open-top ZIL limousine at a military parade in Red Square in May for the 63rd anniversary of the Patriotic War, as World War II is referred to by Russians.