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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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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 ...
The driver's cabin of a non-refurbished 81-717.4 head car in Sofia. The 81-717/714 cars in the former Soviet Union operate on metro networks with 1,524 mm (5 ft) and 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 + 27 ⁄ 32 in) Russian gauge s. [2] The Sofia, Budapest, Warsaw and Prague metro networks use 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge.
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