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Automotive industry in the Soviet Union

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In the 1960s the Soviets sought to diversify and broaden the motor vehicle industry but continued to rely on massive vertically integrated facilities. Their 15-year transportation modernization plan announced in 1965 called for increasing production of automobiles and heavy trucks to boost consumer
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By 1970, the manufacture of trucks and other commercial vehicles was decentralized and these were made not only in Moscow and Gorky but also in Belarus (Minsk, Zhodino), Ukraine (Kremenchug), Georgia (Kutaisi), and in the Volga and Ural regions (Ulyanovsk and Miass). The manufacture of automobiles
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At the beginning of the 1960s, when MZMA, GAZ and ZAZ were offering a variety of cars and personal automobile ownership in the Soviet Union was on the rise, the Soviet government opted to build an even larger car manufacturing plant that would produce a people's car and help to meet the demand for
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brought about the construction in the late 1920s and early 1930s of massive factories manufacturing highly standard vehicle and slowly changing product lines. Construction of the Moscow (ZIL), Gor‘kiy, and Yaroslavl' plants, partly or totally built by Western firms, increased production from a few
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The Soviets reportedly allocated one-half of the estimated 7 billion rubles invested in the automotive industry during 1971-75 to the construction of the Volga car and Kama truck plants. As the 15-year plan was drawing to a close, the Soviets modified their traditional approach of simply building
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and on August 26, 1945, issued Resolution No. 9905 "On the Restoration and Development of the Automotive Industry", which outlined the future development of car production in the USSR. In 1947, the total number of automobiles produced in the Soviet Union was 132,968, including 9622 cars, 121,248
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By the early 1980s, Soviet automobile industry consisted of several main plants, which produced vehicles for various market segments. Prior to 1988, private buyers were also not allowed to buy commercial vehicles like minibuses, vans, trucks or buses for personal use. Domestic car production
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With the exception of ZAZ and LuAZ, which were located in the Ukrainian SSR, all the aforementioned companies were located in the RSFSR. Besides the RSFSR, some truck plants were established in Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Georgian, Armenian, and Kyrghizian SSRs while buses were produced in the
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From 1970 to 1979, automobile production grew by nearly 1 million units per year, and truck production grew by 250,000 per year. The production ratio of automobiles to trucks increased in that time from 0.7 to 1.7, indicating that more attention was being given to the consumer market.
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plant in Moscow on 7 November 1924. In 1927, engineers from the Scientific Automobile & Motor Institute (NAMI) created the first original Soviet car NAMI-I, which was produced in small numbers by the Spartak State Automobile Factory in Moscow, between 1927 and 1931.
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additional plants to raise output. Soviet officials publicly acknowledged the need for continued growth in vehicle production, but they stressed the need for greater productivity and new vehicle designs to improve performance, utility and operating efficiency.
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by the new leadership. It continued the production of Russo-Balt cars and launched a new model on October 8, 1922, while AMO built FIAT 15 Ter trucks under licence and released a more modern FIAT-derived truck developed by a team of AMO designers, the
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personal transport. For reasons of cost-efficiency, it was decided to sign a licence agreement with a foreign company and produce the car on the basis of an existing, modern model. Several options were considered, including
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In the early decades after the Revolution, Gorky and Moscow became the main centers of motor vehicle manufacturing. As in Western countries, components for the industry were produced in a large number of different places.
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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
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trucks, 2098 buses, but still did not exceed the pre-war level. Two years later, in 1949, it surpassed the previous record and in 1950 the production was brought up to 363,000 vehicles per year.
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and immediately hit by a crisis due to the loss of financial support, economic turmoil, criminal activities and stiffer competition in the domestic market during the 1990s. Some of them, like
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Russia had no automotive industry prior to the Soviet era. Automobiles were manufactured, but only in small quantity and by importing the main components from abroad.
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was third at 40,000. Other Soviet republics (SSRs) did not have significant automotive industries. Only the first two republics produced all types of automobiles.
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was chosen because of its simple and sturdy design, being easy to manufacture and repair. The plant was built in just 4 years (1966–1970) in the small town of
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There were queues for the purchase of cars and many domestic buyers often had to wait years for a new car. In the 1970s, passenger cars made by VAZ (
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In 1937, the Soviet Union produced over 200,000 vehicles, mostly trucks, putting the country in second place worldwide by production of trucks.
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1948 marked the beginning of Soviet export of cars. In 1950, cars from the Soviet Union were present at the international car exhibition in
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The bulk of the automotive industry of the Soviet Union, with annual production approaching 1.8 million units, was located in
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vehicles. All-terrain cars made by UAZ were not available privately, but could be bought decommissioned. Limousine brands
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Glazunov M. Business in Post-Communist Russia: Privatisation and the Limits of Transformation. Routledge. 2013. Pp. 80-82
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plant built before the war was allowed to operate as a private business until 1921, when it was nationalized.
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Kelly M. A. Russian Motor Vehicles: The Czarist Period 1784 to 1917. Veloce Publishing Ltd. 2009. p. 78-79
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were distributed in the USSR for free or purchased at a large discount through the Soviet Union's social
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trucks, used as company vehicles and for passenger transport in the countryside on roads of poor quality.
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In 1929, due to a rapidly growing demand for automobiles and in cooperation with its trade partner, the
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as part of the Izhevsk Mechanical Plant, with the initiative coming from the Minister of Defence
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Between 1932 and 1939 the amount of car production in the Soviet Union increased up to 844,6%.
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was confined exclusively to Moscow, Gorky, and Izhevsk (Ural region) until the late 1960s.
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produced 2.1-2.3 million units per year of all types, and was the sixth (previously fifth)
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satisfied only 45% of the domestic demand; nevertheless, no import of cars was permitted.
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and in order to increase the overall production of cars in the Soviet Union. It produced
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or Fiat-derived models and later developed cars entirely of its own design, such as the
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Prombron (1922–1926), which had acquired control over the former Russo-Balt factory in
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thousand vehicles in 1928 to 200,000 vehicles in 1937, nearly all of them trucks.
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issued a number of important decisions: it established new car factories in
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After the war, the Soviet automotive industry developed rapidly. The
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Stalinist pressure for rapid industrialization and appreciation for
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from socialist countries) in some quantities, construction trucks (
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Soviet industry exported 300,000-400,000 cars annually, mainly to
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The first fully Soviet-made vehicles were manufactured by the
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welfare and create a larger and more balanced truck fleet.
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at Kremenchuk Harvester Plant) manufactured heavy trucks
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A year later, a second automobile plant was founded in
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Overview of the automotive industry in the Soviet Union
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Ukrainian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Tajik republics.
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subcompact budget cars (as many as 150,000 annually)
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for Soviet officials (up to 100,000 cars annually).
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Production of passenger cars in the USSR, 1960-1979
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largest automotive producer
cars
trucks
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Volvo
MAN
LIAZ
Csepel
IFA
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Tatra
Robur
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Ikarus
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Russo-Balt
nationalised
Prombron
AMO-F-15
Citroën
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