Museum of the Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ)

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The museum opened in 1965. Located on two floors of the Center for JSC “Gaz” (Nizhny Novgorod, Lenin Ave., 95). The second – the exposition “History and Development of JSC” Gaz “, below – a stationary exhibition” Cars and their creators, which introduces visitors to the collection of cars “Gas”.

GAZ-AA – trucks 1,5 t, known as the lorry (1932-1950).  Was a licensed copy of the edited American truck Ford model AA 1929. Right – GAZ-AAA.

GAZ-M-1 ( “Emka”) – Soviet passenger car, produced in series from 1936 to 1942 and from 1945 to 1948 years (since upgrading). He became one of the symbols of his era, played an important role in the war years, because he was one of the most popular models of cars in the country and was used extensively.

The basis was taken as a popular American automobile Ford Model B.

GAS-A – the car of the middle class with an open 5-seater 4-door body type phaeton. Genuine copy of Ford-A license for the production of which was bought by the Soviet government in the United States in 1929 by Henry Ford.

In 1946, started production of the Soviet car “Pobeda” (GAZ-M20), a prototype of which was created in 1944. The first Soviet passenger car with a monocoque body and one of the world’s first serially produced with a body full of pontoon type – without the speakers and the rudiments of wings, chicanery and headlights (1946-1958).

GAZ-12, pre-1956 – GAZ-M-12 “ZIM”, sometimes referred to as “ZIM-12″ – Soviet six-seven-passenger car with a body of a large class of “shestiokonny dlinnobazny sedan, produced in series from 1950 to 1959.

“ZIM” – the first representational model of the Gorky Automobile Plant.

GAZ-69 ( “Goat”) – Soviet passenger car terrain. Produced from 1953 to 1972.

GAZ-52 and GAZ-53 – Soviet truck, manufactured commercially since 1961 under the symbol GAZ-53F, from 1965 to 1983 as under the symbol GAZ-53A, and from 1983 until January 1993 under the symbol GAZ-53-12 Gorky Automobile Plant. GAZ-53 with subsequent modifications – most popular vehicle in the territory of the former USSR.  Total circulation – more than 4 million vehicles.

GAZ-51 – Soviet trucks 2,5 t; the most popular truck model 1950-60-x.

Mass production deployed since 1946. In 1955, he was mastered modernized GAZ-51A, was manufactured until 1975.

Left – GAZ-18.

GAZ-21. Since the early prototypes, the hood Volga decorated figure frozen in a dynamic pose of the deer.  The choice of this animal as a heraldic emblem had deep roots – deer have long been depicted on the arms of Nizhny Novgorod.  Stylized nakapotnaya figure was the traditional emblems for cars as a proportion of animals and pose. Since the appearance of “Volga” it nakapotnaya figure became very popular, and often there were cases of stealing statues from the bonnet of the car with the purpose of sale or a kind of “collectibles”.  Therefore, and because of its high cost and – most important – traumatic, in the late fifties to put a figure of a deer stopped to export cars and taxis, replacing it with the “drop” – collapsible elongated streamlined shape. In 1962, all the decorations from the hood “Volga” removed.

GAZ-67 and GAZ-67B – Soviet military-wheel-drive cars with a simplified open body, which had a notch instead of doors. At the final stage of the Great Patriotic War, and later the Korean war GAZ-67B is widely used as a headquarters and a reconnaissance vehicle, carrier infantry and wounded, as well as a light artillery tractor. Produced in 1943-1953 gg.

GAZelle series – Russia’s small-tonnage trucks and vans produced at the Gorky automobile plant in July 1994. In August 2005, was the 1 millionth “Gazelle”.

GAZ-66 ( “shishiga”, “ball”) – a Soviet truck with wheel arrangement 4×4, carrying capacity 2,0 t and the cab over the engine. The most massive four-wheel drive two-axle vehicle of the Soviet Army and in the national economy of the USSR and Russia in 1960-90.

GAZ-13 Chaika – model cars, the Gorky Automobile Plant, one of the few Soviet cars representative class.

was developed in 1957 to replace outdated by the time the car M-12 “ZIM”.  First Generation – 1959-1981 gg.

The second generation – GAZ-14 “Chaika” (1977-1988)

GAZ-21, model 1959.

GAZ-24-10 (left) and GAZ-31029.  GAZ-24-10 “Volga” – Soviet passenger car of the middle class, the production of the Gorky Automobile Plant, produced from the end of 1985 to 1993. Preceded by – “Volga” GAZ-24 (1968-1986).  Volga GAZ-31029 – Russia’s passenger car, are mass-produced from 1992 to 1997, the Gorky Automobile Plant. Further improvement of the model GAZ-24-10.

Volga GAZ-3111 – Russia’s passenger car business-class are mass-produced in 2000-2004.

GAZ-3105. Results from 1992 to 1996 were produced 55 cars.

APCs.

GAZ-34039.

Visit the museum for free, but for photo taking 200 rubles.  Yes, and write that the museum is open only on weekdays, as it works on the schedule of the plant.  metro “Komsomolskaya”, then 5 minutes on foot.

Source: LJ / riverpilgrim

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