Not sure it's a Lada, might be a Zhiguli. Once hitchhiked in a purple one for 12 hours in the Altay mountains, the brakes stopped working so we had to drive really slowly until we got them fixed in a village by some dodgy types.
I took this photo from my old apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine. Heard a screech and smash, went to the window to see the driver crawl out, brush himself off, look around and casually stroll away before the crowd gathered.