John Massey Stewart (left) and David Ashwanden (right), with a Mini Minor car lent by BMC (British Motor Corporation) at the top of the Krestovy Pass, Georgia, Caucasus (then part of Soviet Russia). Their journey, exceptional if not unique for that time, had taken them by ship from London to Leningrad and then south by car through the Ukraine to Odessa, then by ship to Yalta and ship again after some days to the east coast of the Black Sea through Georgia and over the Caucasus. David then drove the car home and John went on by plane to Central Asia and the USSR's Pacific Coast near Vladivostok. See John's book Across the Russias (1966).