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UAZ-452A / 3962 ambulance (“Tabletka”)

The Soviet and Russian rural ambulance since 1965: the 452A and, from 1985, the 3962 with a stretcher bay, side benches and a heater in the Bukhanka body — the “Tabletka” (tablet) of every district hospital and of the army’s medical units.

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Sources & evidence
UAZ-452A / 3962 ambulance (“Tabletka”) — UAZ-3962 ambulance in Asino, Tomsk oblast, RussiaIlya Plekhanov · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
BASE VEHICLEUAZ-452 (1965–85)BUILT BYUlyanovsk Automobile Plant (UAZ)IN SERVICE1965OPERATED INRussiaPRODUCTIONNot publishedLAYOUT4 wheels · 90.6″

The record

The 452A carried four stretcher cases or six seated in the forward-control body with the four-wheel drive that district ambulance stations needed; the 3962 designation of 1985 continued it and the model is still built for Russian, CIS and export health services.

Specification

MANUFACTURED1965–present
ENGINE2.45-litre UMZ-451; later UMZ-4213UMZ-417/421
PRODUCTION RUNNot published
COUNTRY OF ORIGINRussia
OPERATED INRussia
STATUSin production
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINEUAZ-450 / 452 Bukhanka
FAMILYUAZ-450 / 452 Bukhanka
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE90.6″
BODY STYLEambulance
CATEGORYSpecial · Ambulances

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Variants & colours

Base model variants

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Sources

  1. 1UAZ-452 ↗Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-22SOURCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-22 · status: researched