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BASE MODELSpecial · AmbulancesMilitary · RussiaRussia

UAZ-450.

Early UAZ-450A four-wheel-drive ambulance with the separate three-slat grille, rounded cab-over body and patient compartment.

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MODEL LINEUAZ-450 / 452 BukhankaBUILT BYUlyanovsk Automobile Plant (UAZ)PRODUCED1958–65OPERATED INRussiaPRODUCTIONNot publishedLAYOUT4 wheels · 90.59055118110237″

The record

The 450 family entered production at Ulyanovsk in 1958 and preceded the redesigned 452. Its short four-wheel-drive chassis carried a van, an ambulance or a separate wooden cargo platform. A 2.432-litre petrol four and three-speed gearbox powered the early family. The procedural model uses shared game physics; its handling values are not certified factory specifications.

Reference review: The supplied Moscow 2025 and factory-museum photographs show a pale ambulance with two patient windows on each side, cream wheels, a right-side spotlight, small round rear lamps and split rear bumper. The requested split windscreen is an intentional brief requirement: the photographed preserved vehicle instead has an undivided windscreen. Subsequent reviewer feedback superseded the original right-positioned roof-lamp request; the cross lamp is now centred, matching the preserved vehicle.

Country evidence: the manufacturer source locates production at Ulyanovsk, Russia; Soviet ambulance and army service is described in the family history. Russia is the existing canonical modern country field, not a list of all former Soviet republics or deployment theatres.

Specification

MANUFACTURED1958–65
ENGINE2.432-litre petrol inline-four, 62 hpGAZ-M20 four
PRODUCTION RUNNot published
COUNTRY OF ORIGINRussia
OPERATED INRussia
STATUSreplaced by the UAZ-452 in 1965
WHEELBASE2,301 mm (queue specification; period sources commonly round to 2,300 mm)
DRIVEFour-wheel drive
ENGINE2.432-litre petrol inline-four; 62 hp
RECORD KINDBase model
MODEL LINEUAZ-450 / 452 Bukhanka
FAMILYUAZ-450 / 452 Bukhanka
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE90.59055118110237″
BODY STYLEAmbulance (450A)
VARIANTS1
CATEGORYSpecial · Ambulances, Military · Russia

Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.

Body styles & colours

Factory colours

  • Protective green (khaki)

Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.

AI rendering impression

An AI rendering impression starts from a 3D model of this vehicle, which an image model then paints into a scene. It is an artist's impression of the type, made to give a feel for the vehicle in its element — not a photograph, and not a record of any particular vehicle.

Proportions, fittings, markings, colours and the setting can all drift from the original in the process. For the vehicle's actual details, rely on the specification, the photographs and the cited sources on this page.

Sources

  1. 1UAZ-452 ↗Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-22SOURCE
  2. 2UAZ ↗Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-22SOURCE
  3. 3UAZ-450 family history and period specifications ↗Modelist-Konstruktor · accessed 2026-09-23SOURCE
  4. 4Early ambulance reference photograph 1 ↗Wikimedia Commons / Retired electrician · accessed 2026-09-23SOURCE
  5. 5Early ambulance reference photograph 2 ↗Wikimedia Commons / Retired electrician · accessed 2026-09-23SOURCE
  6. 6Early ambulance reference photograph 3 ↗Wikimedia Commons / Retired electrician · accessed 2026-09-23SOURCE
  7. 7Early ambulance reference photograph 4 ↗Wikimedia Commons / Retired electrician · accessed 2026-09-23SOURCE
  8. 8Early ambulance reference photograph 5 ↗Wikimedia Commons / Retired electrician · accessed 2026-09-23SOURCE
  9. 9UAZ factory-museum 450A ↗Wikimedia Commons / Vadim Kondratyev · accessed 2026-09-23SOURCE
  10. 10Early UAZ-450A in the factory museum; central cross lamp and undivided screen differ from the requested game brief. ↗Vadim Kondratyev · CC BY-SA 4.0IMAGE
  11. 11https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAZhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAZ ↗REFERENCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-23T11:12:05.086Z · status: researched