About Russo-Baltique
Russo-Balt (sometimes Russobalt or Russo-Baltique) was the first Russian company that produced cars between 1909 and 1923.
Between 1909 and 1915 the cars were built at the railway car factory RBVZ in Riga, Latvia, and after the 1917 revolution a second factory was opened in Saint Petersburg, where they built armoured cars on chassis produced in Riga. In 1922, the production was moved from Saint Petersburg to BTAZ in Moscow. Russo-Balt produced both trucks and cars, often more or less copies of cars from the German Rex-Simplex or Belgian Fondu.
Today the company is still active in Riga and is producing trailers.
Concept car
The Russian Russo-Baltique is now promoting a Russian-German luxury car concept, the Impression, first introduced at the 2006 Concours d'Elegance.
