Agata was a Russian car-building workshop founded by Alexey Kosykh, who conceived the idea of building the country's first kit car in 1998 and first displayed a Niva-based car that year at the Avtoekzotika show. Based around Mineralnye Vody in the North Caucasus and later also operating from Moscow as the Agata Fund of Author's Cars, it worked with designers including Mikhail Romanov and, later, Dmitry Ibushev, a design lecturer…