Russian Trucks and Cars

[Kuno]

The GAZ 69 was produced from 1953 to 1972. To me it is one of the best looking Russian vehicles ever built. The one I found on the route from Yerevan to Garni had got a "homemade" hard top:

[Kuno]

The GAZ 69 production had been transferred to another manufacturer, UAZ, already in 1954 but the old designation was kept since it was already widely known. In 1972, the successor was introduced: The UAZ 469. The UAZ 469 was produced until the 1990ies and is now replaced by the UAZ Hunter.

Here the UAZ 469 and and a ZIL 133 truck with crane in the background:

[Kuno]

3'380'000 ZIL 130 trucks were produced from 1962 until 1994. It is therefore still a very common sight in all Countries of the former Soviet Union. But production did not stop - since 1995 the same truck is produced by the manufacturer UamZ under the designation UamZ-43140. I have to admit that I cannot differentiate the two...

[Kuno]

Looking pretty similar as the ZIL-130: The GAZ 53 truck. The truck was introduced in 1961 and manufactured until 1993. The only obvious difference to its counterpart is the front grille... even the painting, blue cabin and white front is similar:

[Kuno]

There is also a bus-version of the GAZ 53:

[Kuno]

Now a personal car - the GAZ M21 Volga. Here the version which was built between 1961 and 1972:

[Kuno]

Another Volga-version was the GAZ 24 which was built between 1968 and 1972: