A fragment of the car that crashed Viktor Tsoi will be sold at auction

A relic associated with the cult leader of the Kino group will be exhibited one of these days

The posthumous epic of Viktor Tsoi continues. In the coming days, another relic associated with him will go under the hammer. We are talking about a mutilated piece of plastic – part of the torpedo of the Moskvich-2141 car, which Tsoi was driving at the time of his fatal accident on August 15, 1990.

The auction house catalog states: “[Из архива первого продюсера группы “Кино”] Part of the Moskvich-2141 torpedo, which belonged to Viktor Tsoi. USSR, late 1980s.”

Until now, for almost ten years, the owner of the artifact, which is now being put up for auction, was the first producer of Viktor Tsoi, Yuri Belishkin.

Judging by the information available on the site, along with the relic, he brought an accompanying note to transfer it to its future owner. In it, having endorsed this written story with his own signature, Yuri Belishkin tells the story of the appearance of this memorial item in his possession.

“In 2014, a concert in memory of Viktor Tsoi took place in Riga… After the concert, Igor Sidorenko, a fan of Viktor Tsoi’s work, came up to me and presented me with a front panel from a car that was involved in an accident on August 15, 1990. He explained this gift to me as gratitude for my activities as director of the Kino group in 1988-89. Life made adjustments, and I had to remember this rarity. This year I underwent a complex (7 hours) oncological operation, then a month and a half of radiation therapy. Due to the disease and its treatment, I encountered financial difficulties, which arose the need to sell the panel.”

The starting price of the lot is 250 thousand rubles.

Let us recall that almost five years ago another relic, “related” to the current one, associated with Viktor Tsoi and the car accident that caused his death, was put up for auction. The registration number plate from the Moskvich of the deceased musician was sold under the hammer. As they explained then, the car number “I 6832 MM” was accidentally discovered in one of the private garages in the Baltic states. As a result, an anonymous buyer paid two million rubles for a metal plate with black letters and numbers on a white background, slightly deformed when the Moskvich collided with a bus.