?????????? ?? ????? ??????, ?????? ???? ?? ???? ? ???????The Niva was explained by its designers like a "Renault 5 placed on a Land Rover chassis".[sixteen] Improvement started in 1971 once the 24th Congress with the CPSU, by which Alexei Kosygin (the then-Premier of your Soviet Union) gave the designers at VAZ and AZLK the task of making a vehicle