Ulyanovsk’s four-wheel drives went first to the Soviet Army — the GAZ-69 from 1954, the 450 and 452 ambulances and vans from 1958, the portal-axle 469 of 1971 that equipped the Warsaw Pact and more than 80 armies — and to the rural services of the Soviet Union: the Tabletka ambulance, the farm truck, the works minibus, the forestry and militia 469B. The Hunter, Bukhanka and Patriot serve the Russian forces, police, hospitals and hunters today.
UAZ in the Soviet and Russian forces: the GAZ-69 built at Ulyanovsk from 1954, the 450 and 452 ambulances and vans from 1958, the UAZ-469 with portal axles from 1971 as the Soviet Army’s and Warsaw Pact’s light vehicle, the 3151 of the Chechen wars, and the Hunter, Bukhanka and Patriot of the Russian forces today; supplied to more than 80 armies.
UAZ at work: the 452 “Tabletka” ambulance of every Soviet and Russian district hospital since 1965, the 452D and 3303 farm truck, the 2206 works minibus, the 469B of the collective farms, geological expeditions, forestry and the militia, and the Hunter, Bukhanka and Patriot of today’s police, forestry, hunting and expedition fleets.