svetolina. at the beginning of october 1961 , an unusual picture could be observed on the minsk-moscow highway. the parents did not hide their surprise and admiration. confident on the highway a huge dump truck was moving. the oncoming traffic seemed so tiny in comparison that many stopped, preferring to let this giant pass ahead and not take risks. on october 17, 1961, the next twenty-second congress of the party central committee began its work in moscow. the gift for its opening was a brand new belas 540 dump truck with a lifting capacity of 27 tons, just off the assembly line. a new unique development of the belarusian automobile plant in zhodina. experience. the sample was sent under its own power to moscow. you can only imagine what sergei lyutarevich, the plant’s test driver, had to go through. it was he who was driving the heavy truck at the time. so, together with test technician kukhar, ivan went to moscow to vdnkh in order to present a gift to the twenty-second liaison officer of the