An ambulance from the roads of Karelia, Russia. Good thing – calling an ambulance is free for everyone. Another good thing – even this type of vehicle would transport real doctors to someone in need. Bad thing? The vehicle itself. To see what’s inside one of these – look inside this post.

Even from the outside shots one can see that inside these cars doesn’t look promising.

In Soviet times calling an ambulance was just sometimes pretty not much justified – for example, old people were calling ambulances just for a chat if they felt lonely (I’ve read such stories), or pretty often people with high blood pressure were calling them to get a shot of blood pressure lowering medicine. Because the ambulance was and still is free – you don’t get any bill for the call.

Here is another one:

And there was a chance for the photographer to get inside this one. So here is what is inside one of them:





This is something called ‘electric sucking device’ – so the sign says.

Spare battery.

Couple of spare tires.

Probably some medical equipment.

Good thing they would bring real doctors. These should be professionals, no matter that their average salary in the country is roughly $7000 dollars a year.