The GAZ-61 carried the Soviet high command from 1941 — Zhukov’s was the best known — and the GAZ-64 and GAZ-67 were the Red Army’s own Jeeps beside the 50,000 Lend-Lease Willys and Fords: command cars, artillery tractors for the 45 and 57 mm guns, reconnaissance vehicles and the chassis of the BA-64 armoured car. The 67B stayed in service after 1945 and went to North Korea and China for the Korean War.
The GAZ-69 of 1953 replaced them across the Soviet Army and the Warsaw Pact and served Egypt and Syria in 1956, 1967 and 1973, Cuba, Vietnam and Finland; the 2P26 put the first Soviet anti-tank guided missiles on it and the GAZ-46 amphibian crossed rivers for the engineers. Ulyanovsk built most 69s from 1954 and the UAZ-469 replaced it in 1972; the licence-built ARO M461 served Romania to the 1980s.
GAZ-61, 64 and 67 in the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945)
3 VEHICLES IN THIS CHAPTERStaff cars for the marshals, the GAZ-64 and 67 as command and gun-tractor vehicles, the BA-64 armoured car on their chassis.
Registry records · chapter 1
Post-war and Korea (1945–1953)
2 VEHICLES IN THIS CHAPTERThe 67B with the Soviet forces, the Interior Ministry and the Korean People’s Army and Chinese volunteers.
Registry records · chapter 2
GAZ-69 in the Soviet Army and the Warsaw Pact (1953–1980s)
6 VEHICLES IN THIS CHAPTERThe 69 and 69A as the standard light vehicle, the 2P26 anti-tank carrier, the GAZ-46 amphibian, the Middle East wars, Cuba and Vietnam; the ARO M461 in Romania.
Sources
Military vehicles in the registry
10 records, oldest first.
GAZ-61 (1938–45)1938–45 · Russia
GAZ-64 (1941–43)1941–43 · Russia
GAZ-67 and 67B (1943–53)1943–53 · Russia
GAZ-67B in Korea (1950–53)1950–53 · Russia
GAZ-46 MAV amphibious (1953–58)1953–58 · Russia
GAZ-69 and 69A (1953–72)1953–72 · Russia
GAZ-69 built at Ulyanovsk (UAZ-69, 1954–72)1954–72 · Russia
GAZ-69 in the Warsaw Pact and abroad1955–90 · Russia
GAZ-69 2P26 anti-tank missile carrier1960–70 · Russia
ARO M461 (Romanian GAZ-69)1964–75 · Romania