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Twenty seven Soviet-made retro cars are on display at Moscow’s Manezh center near the Kremlin. The exposition features legends of the Soviet automotive industry, which spanned the history of the state from 1929 to 1991.
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Moskvitch was an automobile brand from Russia produced by AZLK from 1945 to 1991 and by OAO Moskvitch from 1991 to 2002. The word moskvitch (Russian: москвич) itself translates as "(a) Muscovite" into English. It was used to point out the original location of the cars manufactured outside of Moscow.
RG / Sergey Mikheev
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GAZ or Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod started in 1932 as cooperation between Ford and the Soviet Union. GAZ's first vehicle was the medium-priced Ford Model A, and a light truck, the Ford Model AA.
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The LuAZ-967 was the civil designation of the Transporter of the Front Line, a small Soviet four-wheel drive amphibious vehicle. It was designed in 1959 at the Moskvitch MZMA plant, for Russian Airborne Troops. Mass production took place between 1961-1975 at Lutsk automobile plant - LuAZ.
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The Moskvitch 2141, commonly referred to as simply Aleko, is a Russian small class, third group hatchback car that was first announced in 1985 and sold in the Soviet Union and its successor states between 1986 and 2000.
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GAZ M1 (based largely on the four cylinder version of the Ford Model B), produced from 1936 to 1942. The M letter stands for Molotovets ('of Molotov's fame'), it was the origin of the car's nickname, M'ka.
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Volga is an automobile brand that originated in the Soviet Union to replace the venerated GAZ-M20 Pobeda in 1956. Modern in design, it became a symbol of higher status in the Soviet nomenklatura. Volga cars were also traditionally used as taxi cabs, road police interceptors, and ambulances.
RG / Sergey Mikheev
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GAZ-GL-1, experimental race car, produced in 1940. Today GAZ Group is the leading manufacturer of commercial vehicles in Russia. GAZ Group produces light commercial and medium-duty vehicles, heavy-duty trucks, buses, cars, powertrain and automotive components.
RG / Sergey Mikheev
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The Moskvitch 400-420 was a car from Soviet manufacturer Moskvitch introduced in 1947. People in Rüsselsheim remember dismanteling the Kadett production tooling after World War II, to go into a large number of freight cars on their way to Moscow. Although Opel was US-property, GM did not recover control of the factory until 1948 and were therefore unable to contest the transfer.
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ZAZ Zaporozhets was a series of subcompact cars designed and built from 1958 at the ZAZ factory in Soviet Ukraine . Different types of Zaporozhets were produced until 1994. The name Zaporozhets means a Cossack of the Zaporizhian region.
RG / Sergey Mikheev
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Zaporozhets is still warmly remembered in many ex-USSR countries. Like the Volkswagen Beetle or East Germany's Trabant, Soviet Zaporozhets was destined to become a "people's car". It was the cheapest Soviet car and so the most affordable to common people.
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SZA-M, 1967. SeAZ (Serpukhovsky Avtomobilny Zavod) is a large engineering plant in Serpukhov, Russia. The company was founded on July 7, 1939, concerning production of small capacity motorcycles. During 1939 to 1995 the company produced various microcars, usually powered by IZH motorcycle engines.
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The Moskvitch M—427, a station wagon on the same base, produced from 1969, replacing the M-426 wagon. AZLK stopped making these in 1976.
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Production of NAZ-AA started on January 1, 1932, and the factory and marque was titled Nizhegorodsky Avtomobilny Zavod, or NAZ. In 1933, the factory's name changed to Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod, or GAZ, when the city was renamed after Maxim Gorky; similarly, models were renamed GAZ-A and GAZ-AA.
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Zavod imeni Likhachova, more commonly called ZIL, is a major Russian truck and heavy equipment manufacturer, which also produced armored cars for most Soviet leaders.
RG / Sergey Mikheev
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ZIL passenger cars are priced at the equivalent of models from Maybach and Rolls-Royce, but are largely unknown outside the CIS and production rarely exceeds a dozen cars per year.
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