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IMZ-Ural Group Inc., more commonly known as Ural Motorcycles (Russian: Мотоциклы Урал, romanized: Motosikly Ural), is a multinational company involved in developing, manufacturing, and worldwide distribution of Ural sidecar motorcycles.
In 1952, 500 M-72 engines were shipped from the IMZ to the KMZ factory in Kyiv to produce their first batch of M-72s. KMZ produced the M-72 until 1956. A closely related model, the M-72N, was produced later. In 1957, the Soviets sold the M-72 production line to the People's Republic of China. The IMZ plant supplied M-72s to China up to the ...
The keystone of the museum was the collection of the Design Department of the IMZ factory acquired by local authorities in 2002. It is temporarily housed in a building at 100a Ulitsa Soviestskaya, in Irbit, while a permanent home is built in Ulitsa Lenina. It received the status of a State Museum of the Russian Federation on January 1, 2006.
Meet the Boss - Six Questions with Ural CEO Ilya Khait Wherein I sit down with Ural's CEO and get the facts about the company's long, arduous post-Soviet journey Ural CEO Ilya Khait is a man of ...
The first batch of M-72 motorcycles was produced in 1952 with the supply of 500 engines from IMZ. In 1958 KMZ replaced the plunger framed M72-N with the swingarm framed K-750. In 1964, KMZ introduced a military model, the MV-750 with a differential two-wheel drive to the sidecar wheel.
In 1940 People's Commissariat of Defense of the Soviet Union acknowledged the lag in motorized vehicles and decided to choose a foreign platform to build upon. In 1941 a factory was built which is known today as IMZ-Ural with Nikolai Serdyukov as its head constructor because he was doing an internship in BMW factories in Munich, Spandau and Eisenach from 1935 till 1940 and worked his way up to ...
With the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the plant was transferred east to the town of Irbit in the Ural region. The new plant was known as Irbit Motorcycle Factory . In 1946, the Moscow plant was re-established to manufacture the M-1A Moskva, (the DKW RT 125 taken as war reparations).
This is a chronological index for the start year for motor vehicle brands (up to 1969). For manufacturers that went on to produce many models, it represents the start date of the whole brand; for the others, it usually represents the date of appearance of the main (perhaps only) model that was produced.