I don’t think the name of this Canadian company was widely known in Russia until the middle-late 90s, when one of the company’s products made a roaring entry into the country, and ever since then it was becoming more and more popular, - for all the power, speed, and lots of fun riders had with it. And the name was ‘catchy’ too - it sounded great in Russian that can easily deal with ‘rolling R-R-Rs’ 
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Oh, yeah, it was an array of the Bombardier’s ‘Sea-Doo’ watercrafts, but not the airplanes!
As for myself and many of my friends being around then, I’m pretty sure, - that was the way the name kinda ’stuck in memory’.
‘Sea-Doo hourly rent outlets’ were very cool novices that started appearing on the Black Sea resorts, or other waterfront places on lakes or rivers that would have large enough aquatories for having fun with these speedy machines.
And I think the business of running such outlets was one of the most lucrative during a season.
Although I’m not sure if there’s any noticeable number of entrepreneurs who made ‘a coupla bucks’ renting out See-Doos would eventually make it on a ‘thorny path into a clique of notorious oligarchs’, but definitely, the representatives of the latter group had noticed the Bombardier.
And not only trough reading its name on the Sea-Doos they had fun with.
(to be continued..)
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