"A five-minute repair is nothing.
This breakdown is not a threat,
But I can't unbend my arms:
They're frozen on the steering wheel."
Olga Fyodorovna Bergholz. "The Leningrad Poem"
Buses were also used for evacuation, and not only Leningrad ones. On January 23, 1942, the Moscow Bus Expedition began operating in the city

A driver and a conductor at the ZIS-16 bus. 1939 (photo from the archive of T. A. Klepikova)

ZIS-8 bus. Vartemyagi. 1940 (from the Grozmani family archive)

ZIS-8 ATUL three-axle bus and its driver Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov. Leningrad. First Bus Park. 1952 (from the collection of the Leningrad Transport History Research Center of Passazhiravtotrans St. Petersburg State Unitary Enterprise)

ZIS-8 bus being washed at Bus Park No. 2. 1939 (from the collection of the Leningrad Transport History Research Center of Passazhiravtotrans St. Petersburg State Unitary Enterprise)