The prototype is only the anticipation in digital form. The head of the company could also rely on good intentions, assumptions and will, but the now unsustainable debt situation has forced the controllers to pull the plug. No perestoika, then. After 85 years of commercial adventure ends Zavod Imeni Lichačëva, better known as the ZIL, Russian historian specializing in building brand flagships nomenclature used by the Communist Party, from Stalin to Brezhnev.