History Museum of the Gorky Automobile Plant

The museum was opened in 1965. Located on two floors of the Training Center of "Gas" (Nizhny Novgorod, Lenina ave., 95). On the second - the exhibition "The history and development of" gas "below - the stationary exhibition" Cars and their creators ", which introduces visitors to the collection of cars," GAS ".
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1. GAZ-AA - Truck carrying capacity of 1, 5 t, known as the lorry (1932-1950). It represents a modified copy of the license of the US Ford AA truck sample 1929. Right - GAZ-AAA.



2. GAZ-M-1 ("Emka") - Soviet passenger car, serially produced from 1936 to 1942 and from 1945 to 1948 (with upgrade). He became one of the symbols of their era, played a significant role during the war, as was one of the most common models of cars in the country and has been used very widely. The basis was taken the popular American car Ford Model B.



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4. GAZ-A - the car of the middle class with an open 5-seater 4-door body type Phaeton. Licensed copy of the vehicle Ford A license for the production of which was bought by the Soviet government in the United States in 1929, Henry Ford.



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6. In 1946, started production of the Soviet car "Victory" (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 issued with a body completely pontoon - no protruding wings and their rudiments, and chicanery range (1946-1958).



7. GAS-12 until 1956 - GAZ M-12 "ZIM", sometimes referred to as "winter-12" - the Soviet-six seven-passenger car with the body of a large class "shestiokonny long wheelbase sedan" series produced between 1950 and 1959. "ZIM" - the first representative model of the Gorky Automobile Plant.



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9. GAZ-69 ("Goat & quot;) - Soviet passenger car off-road. It is produced from 1953 to 1972.



10. GAZ-52 and GAZ-53 - Soviet truck, manufactured commercially since 1961 under the symbol GAZ-53F, from 1965 to 1983 under the symbol GAZ-53A, and from 1983 until January 1993 under the index GAZ-53-12 Gorky Automobile Plant. GAZ-53 with subsequent modifications - the most massive truck on the territory of the former USSR. The total circulation - over 4 million. Cars.



11. GAZ-51 - Soviet truck carrying capacity of 2, 5 tons; the most mass cargo model 1950-60th. Serial production is deployed in 1946. In 1955, he mastered a modernized GAZ-51A, to produce up to 1975.



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13. Left - GAZ-18.



14. GAZ-21. Beginning with the earliest prototypes, hood "Volga" was decorated with a figure frozen in a dynamic pose deer. The choice of this animal as the emblem had deep roots heraldic - deer has long been depicted on the emblem of Nizhny Novgorod. Stylized nakapotnaya figure had traditional emblems of cars in the form of animal proportions and posture. From the appearance of the "Volga" nakapotnaya her figure has become very popular; were frequent cases of theft of statues from the hood of the car with the purpose of sale or a kind of "collectibles." Therefore, and due to its high cost, and - most importantly - traumatic, in the late fifties figure deer stopped to put on export cars and taxis, replacing it with a "drop" - collapsible elongated streamlined figure. In 1962, all the decorations from the hood "Volga" was removed.



15. GAZ-67 and GAZ-67B - Soviet military-wheel-drive cars with a simplified open body, which had a cut-outs instead of doors. At the final stage of World War II and later the Korean War GAZ-67B was widely used as a command and reconnaissance vehicle, infantry carrier and the injured, as well as the light artillery tractor. It is produced in 1943-1953 gg.



16. Gazelle - a series of Russian light-duty trucks and vans produced at the Gorky Automobile Plant since July 1994. In August 2005, it was produced the one millionth "Gazelle».



17. GAZ-66 ("shishiga", "ball") - Soviet truck 4x4, load capacity of 2 t 0 and the cab-over-engine. Most mass-wheel-drive two-axle truck of the Soviet Army and in the national economy of the USSR and Russia in the 1960-90's.



18. GAZ-13 Chaika - model cars Gorky Automobile Plant, one of the few Soviet executive cars. It was developed in 1957 to replace obsolete by the time the M-12 "ZIM". First Generation - 1959-1981 gg.



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20. The second generation - GAZ-14 "Chaika» (1977-1988)



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25. GAZ-21, model 1962. In the photo - the last car of the series, released by the 70-year, GAZ-21US.



26. GAZ-24 (left) and GAZ-31029. GAZ-24-10 "Volga" - Soviet passenger car of the middle class, the production of the Gorky Automobile Plant, issued at the end of 1985 to 1993. Predecessor - "Volga" GAZ-24 (1968-1986). Volga GAZ-31029 - Russian cars manufactured in series from 1992 to 1997, the Gorky Automobile Plant. Further improvement of the model GAZ-24-10.



27. Volga GAZ-3111 - Russian passenger car business class mass-produced in 2000-2004.



28. GAZ-3105. Total from 1992 to 1996, was released 55 cars.



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30. APC.



31. GAZ-34039.



32.Poseschenie museum is free, but for photo taking 200 rubles. And they write that a museum only on weekdays, as well as working on the schedule of the plant. How to get to the station. Metro "Komsomolskaya", then 5 minutes on foot.



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