Growing number of special taxi may be noted during the "Prohibition", it was due to the fact that alcohol has begun to spread through the taxi drivers, because the police showed little interest in them. Also, the mafia has control and develop taxi to a greater number of illegal sales of alcohol. In addition to the unremarkable to the police, the taxi was very roomy, so it could accommodate hundreds of bottles of liquor for further distribution. In Russia, the first taxi appeared only in 1906, in St. Petersburg and in Moscow it appeared a year later, in 1907. Beginning in 1908, noted the appearance of a taxi in all major cities of Russia, this period can be called a boom in business development taxi in Russia. Already in 1910 in St. Petersburg, there were 217 taxis, in 1911 they became 296, by 1912 their number had increased to 380 in 1913, they became smaller, only 328, but by mid-1914 there were about a taxi 400.
At the service of taxi drivers were mostly cheap to operate cars, usually they were German or Opel or the French Charron. With such rapid development of taxis, already in 1913 in St. Petersburg, the infrastructure was well developed, organized parking lot for a taxi, was established Central Division taxi in which you can order a taxi by phone, and in taxi while working around the clock. In 1914, the outbreak of World War II, many taxi drivers have been mobilized into the army, which reduced the number of taxis to 200 units, this was due to a lack of equipment and also in the army. In 1917, the October Revolution brought an end to the development of a taxi in Russia. While all the taxis were confiscated and nationalized, and All taxi companies have been closed. Only in 1924 was initiated the revival of this business, and in 1925 the streets of Moscow and St. Petersburg has the first dozen taxi for 5 cars Renault and 5 marks Fiat. Such a number of taxi clearly not enough, and at night demand grew by 25%, it contributed to the fact that in 1926 one could count the first hundred is a taxi. However, this was not comparable to the thousandths of a taxi fleet in the west and rugged use it.
