Abandoned 131s can be found all over the zone, some might be complete, missing a few wheels or stripped down to it's Cab. Being a military-issue truck: It is likely that this truck was used during the containment of the Chernobyl NPP disaster and during the military's past operations in guarding the zone and were subsequently abandoned after the first emission. The ZIL-131 also had a firetruck variant. ru:ЗИЛ-131