Well if this isn't great I don't know what great is anymore.
I like this car, it is underrated now but I hope more people will enjoy this kind of thing!
Is there in Russia a real competition / championship similar to this car? I don't really know how to find it if exists.
This was like Cinquecento in Italy, used in every way, and certainly it was the default car for competitions, like rallycross, or no-rule-races (like destruction derby but with laps).
It was underrated probably because its production came exactly in the 1990s, the time of the worst manufacturing quality at the factory. Basically, those years if you bought a new (post)-Soviet car, you had to carry it to a garage and fix immediately (bad battery, leaking tubes including brake pipelines! etc).