A total of four or five Ladoga vehicles were originally produced. These highly protected transport vehicles were designed for use in case of a nuclear war, and were equipped with special NBC equipment to protect their crews from weapons of mass destruction.
The Ladoga's crew compartment can seat around four crew members in padded armchairs. It is designed to provide protection against radiation, chemical, or biological contamination and features a mast-mounted television camera and a full suite of radios for communication3.
The Ladoga was first utilized in the fallout zone around the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl following the plant's deadly 1986 meltdown.