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The GAZ-M20 Pobeda was one of the first Soviet cars of original design and moreover at the front line of a new vogue in automobile design; [5] only the front suspension and, partly, the unitized body were influenced by the 1938 Opel Kapitän and the 1941 Chevrolet Fleetline (the choice of car may have been influenced by the acquisition of the ...
The automotive industry in the Soviet Union spanned the history of the state from 1929 to 1991. It started with the establishment of large car manufacturing plants and reorganisation of the AMO Factory in Moscow in the late 1920s–early 1930s, during the first five-year plan, and continued until the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991.
The Soviet Union's first passenger car had been the GAZ-A, produced between 1932 and 1936, and based on the Ford Model A (1927–31), built under license/technology sharing agreement with and using parts purchased from the American Ford Motor Company. It was many years before passenger cars became available for private buyers in the Soviet ...
By the end of 1932, the factory in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) had been brought up to a level where it was able to produce automobiles, and the first cars left the factory on 8 December. [3] At about the same time, the production of the GAZ-AA began, which was a truck built on the same chassis as the car and included many other parts from it ...
Formula Easter (or Forma Easter) was a single-seater, open wheel, open cockpit circuit car racing series during the 1970–1980s, specifically created for drivers from the communist bloc, [1] driving cars created solely from parts manufactured by the COMECON industry or created from scratch as a citizens' initiative by Eastern Bloc residents.
These Soviet-era cars were restored by enthusiasts during lockdown Location: Moscow, Russia (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) SOVIET CAR ENTHUSIAST, MURSAL MAMEDOV, SAYING: "With the help of this car, I ...
Since the 1980s, the use of SMZ cars has been in decline because disabled drivers prefer to use conventional cars with modified controls: Zaporozhets models, for instance, or the later VAZ-1111 "Oka", which were sold to them at substantial discounts. The last 300 S-3Ds left the SeAZ factory as late as autumn 1997.
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