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 Subsequent reviewer feedback superseded the original right-positioned roof-lamp request; the cross lamp is now centred, matching the preserved vehicle.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.
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.
Imagery
UAZ-450, the original AWD 'bread loaf' introduced in 1958 - at an auto show in MoscowRetired electrician · CC0 ↗