Marques
The Gorky plant made the Soviet Union’s four-wheel drives before Ulyanovsk did: Grachev’s GAZ-61 staff car of 1938, the GAZ-64 Jeep of 1941 and the GAZ-67 of 1943–53 (92,843), then the GAZ-69 of 1953 — more than 600,000, most of them built at Ulyanovsk, the light vehicle of the Warsaw Pact and the pattern for Romania’s ARO and China’s BJ212 — with the M-72 Pobeda 4x4 and the GAZ-46 amphibian on its drivetrain.
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All 2 GAZ marques by years in production, 1948 → today
The Soviet four-wheel drives of the war: Vitaly Grachev’s GAZ-61 of 1938, the first Soviet 4x4 car and the marshals’ staff car; the GAZ-64 of 1941, the Soviet Jeep designed in 51 days; and the GAZ-67 and 67B of 1943–53, 92,843 built, the “Ivan-Willys” of the Red Army and of Korea.
The Cold War GAZ: the 69 and 69A of 1953–72 (more than 600,000, mostly built at Ulyanovsk), the M-72 Pobeda 4x4 saloon of 1955–58 (4,677, the first unibody four-wheel-drive car) and the GAZ-46 amphibian of 1953–58, with the licence-built ARO M461 of Romania and the Chinese BJ212 that grew from the 69.
