According to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia entry on "motor cars", Leonty Shamshugenkov was "a peasant in the Nizhny Novgorod province" who in 1751-2,"constructed a self-propelling vehicle operated by two men."
He also participated in compiling the Technical Encyclopedia and the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
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