As noted on the OldWheels page - News and interesting stories from the world of technical retro on the Facebook social network, the emblem was found at one of the online auctions. In shape, it almost completely replicates the emblem of PAZ-652 buses and early PAZ-672 buses. The authors of the post logically assume that this emblem was used to "mark" buses that underwent major repairs at one of the Crimean auto repair plants.
The publication about this find was reposted on his page by the chief editor of the auto.today website, an expert on historical cars, Konstantin Shirokun. In his comments, a discussion broke out about which particular repair base in Crimea could have installed such emblems. There are at least three versions - it was an auto repair plant in Simferopol, Sevastopol, or even Saki. Nevertheless, most commenters lean more toward the Simferopol option.
"I know that bus auto repair plants were in both Sevastopol and Simferopol. The letter C hints at one of these cities. But it doesn't specify," wrote Konstantin Shirokun in the comments.
"There was an auto repair plant named after Valerian Kuibyshev in Crimea, but in Simferopol. Overall, it fits logically: C - Simferopol," noted the chief editor of the Za Ruliem Ukraine website, Yaroslav Moskovka.
It should be noted that the PAZ-652 bus was produced from 1958 to 1968, and its successor, the PAZ-672, from 1967 to 1989. Both models were among the most mass-produced Soviet buses.
