Gps Coordinates / 56.9595899,60.5813307
Eastern European Collection Vehicles VR
XH5J+JP4 Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia
The bulk of the automotive industry of the Soviet Union, with annual production approaching 1.8 million units, was located in Russian SFSR. Ukrainian SSR was second, at more than 200,000 units per year, Byelorussian SSR was third at 40,000. Other Soviet republics (SSRs) did not have significant automotive industries. Only the first two republics produced all types of automobiles.
Have a tour around and appreciate the different ways and methods on how each of the vehicles are different.
GPS Coordinates / 56.9596365,60.5815101
In 1929, due to a rapidly growing demand for automobiles and in cooperation with its trade partner, the Ford Motor Company, the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy established GAZ.
Cars of Eastern Europe tells the story of the cars and vans made in Latvia, Poland, the former Yugoslavia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and East Germany.
Gps Coordinates / 56.9598369,60.5813156
In 1947, the total number of automobiles produced in the Soviet Union was 132,968, including 9622 cars, 121,248 trucks, 2098 buses, but still did not exceed the pre-war level. Two years later, in 1949, it surpassed the previous record and in 1950 the production was brought up to 363,000 vehicles per year.
In a region that stretches from the Black Sea to the Baltic, the vehicles were as varied as the nations themselves.
Gps Coordinates / 56.9595424,60.5813689
In 1950, cars from the Soviet Union were present at the international car exhibition in Poznań, Poland, and soon thereafter were exported to Western Europe. By the late 1950s, the Soviet Union produced 43 car models, and in 1957 the overall number of vehicles produced was 495,994, which included 113,588 cars, 369,504 trucks, and 12,316 buses, and in the following year reached the level of 600,000 cars per year.
Now that eastern Europe has come in from the cold, this collection offers a unique and timely survey of the motor industry in this often overlooked part of the continent.
Gps Coordinates / 56.9594943,60.5816301
The automotive industry in the Soviet Union spanned the history of the state from 1929 to 1991.
Gps Coordinates / 56.9593704,60.581733
By 1970, the manufacture of trucks and other commercial vehicles was decentralized and these were made not only in Moscow and Gorky but also in Belarus (Minsk, Zhodino), Ukraine (Kremenchug), Georgia (Kutaisi), and in the Volga and Ural regions (Ulyanovsk and Miass).
Gps Coordinates / 56.9591951,60.5818822
Some of these (Lada 2105, 2106, 2107, 2108, 2109) produced in post-Soviet time still run the roads in Eastern Europe - including not only Russia but also Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova.
Gps Coordinates / 56.9596695,60.5812586
The manufacture of automobiles was confined exclusively to Moscow, Gorky, and Izhevsk (Ural region) until the late 1960s.
Gps Coordinates / 56.9595261,60.5813823
From 1970 to 1979, automobile production grew by nearly 1 million units per year, and truck production grew by 250,000 per year. The production ratio of automobiles to trucks increased in that time from 0.7 to 1.7, indicating that more attention was being given to the consumer market.
Aerial View above the Verkhnyaya auto show deep into the country of Russia on the asian continent
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By the early 1980s, Soviet automobile industry consisted of several main plants, which produced vehicles for various market segments. Prior to 1988, private buyers were also not allowed to buy commercial vehicles like minibuses, vans, trucks or buses for personal use. Domestic car production satisfied only 45% of the domestic demand. Nevertheless, no import of cars was permitted.
