Models of GAZ carspassenger cars, trucks, off-road vehicles, buses and armored vehicles of the Gorky Automobile Plant from 1932 to the present day. Below is the lineup by class: production models and notable prototypes.

Passenger cars

A GAZ-24 «Volga» on the Volga embankment by the river station — a still from an «Avtoexport» promotional brochure. 1970s.
A GAZ-24 «Volga» on the Volga embankment by the river station — a still from an «Avtoexport» promotional brochure. 1970s.
NameYearsDescription
GAZ-A1932–1936The first Soviet passenger car built on a mass assembly line, a licensed version of the Ford A; 41,917 units built at the automobile plant in Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky).
GAZ-M11936–1942The «Emka» — the first Soviet mass-produced car with a closed all-steel body; over 60 thousand built, a symbol of the pre-war USSR.
GAZ-M20 Pobeda»1946–1958The first Soviet passenger car with a unibody, and one of the world's first mass-produced cars with a pontoon-type body; almost 236 thousand cars assembled in Gorky.
GAZ-12 ZIM1950–1959GAZ's first executive car — a six-window long-wheelbase sedan with a unibody, personally approved by Stalin; 21,527 units built.
GAZ-21 "Volga""»1956–1970The first «Volga», an iconic Soviet sedan with a deer figure on the hood; 639,478 units built across three series (the estate version was the GAZ-22).
GAZ-13 Chaika»1959–1981A top-class executive car with a 5.5-liter V8 and a push-button automatic transmission, distributed only through the nomenklatura allocation system; 3,179 units made.
GAZ-24 «Volga»1970–1992The second «Volga», the most numerous in the family — nearly 1.5 million cars (pilot production batches from 1968; from 1985, the upgraded GAZ-24-10).
GAZ-14 "Chaika""»1977–1988The last top-class Gorky limousine (220 hp, V8); 1,114 units built, production wound down during perestroika with the tooling destroyed.
GAZ-31021982–2008The «nomenklatura» Volga with pre-chamber torch ignition — the first of its kind in Soviet mass-production cars; the plant's record holder for production longevity (26 years).
GAZ-31029 «Volga»1992–1997The first «Volga» sold on the open market — a simplified GAZ-3102 body on GAZ-24-10 running gear; record output for the plant (over 115 thousand per year).
GAZ-3110 "Volga""»1997–2004A deep modernization of the GAZ-31029 with new body panels and the ZMZ-406 engine, the mainstay «Volga» at the turn of the century.
GAZ-3111 "Volga""))»2000–2004An attempt to create a new business-class «Volga» with an original retro design; due to its high price only about 420 cars of a small series were built.
GAZ-31105 "Volga""»2004–2008The last «classic» Volga — a restyled GAZ-3110; just over 190 thousand cars built over four years, the assembly line stopped in the autumn of 2008.
Volga Cyber2008–2010A licensed sedan on the Chrysler Sebring platform — GAZ's last passenger-car model; only about 9 thousand built due to the economic crisis.

Trucks

A GAZ-51P tractor unit in an «Avtoexport» promotional brochure. 1950s.
A GAZ-51P tractor unit in an «Avtoexport» promotional brochure. 1950s.
NameYearsDescription
GAZ-AA1932–1949The «Polutorka» ("one-and-a-half-tonner") — the plant's first mass-produced truck (from 1938, in the GAZ-MM version), the main workhorse of industrialization and the Great Patriotic War; about one million units built together with satellite plants.
GAZ-AAA1934–1943A three-axle (6x4) high-mobility truck based on the GAZ-AA; over 37 thousand built, most of them going to the army, and some also served on the Road of Life.
GAZ-511946–1975The basic "gazon" workhorse of the post-war economy, about 3.5 million units over 29 years — one of the two most mass-produced trucks in the country's history.
GAZ-631948–1968The first Soviet mass-produced all-wheel-drive truck (2 t), the military counterpart of the GAZ-51; about half a million units built.
GAZ-531961–1993The basic medium-duty truck of the third Gorky generation (from 1965 the 4-tonne GAZ-53A with a V8 engine); over 4 million units of all versions — the most mass-produced Gorky truck.
GAZ-521964–1989A transitional 2.5-tonne truck with a GAZ-53-family cab but the inline six-cylinder engine from the GAZ-51; produced in parallel with the GAZ-53, over a million units built.
GAZ-661964–1999The «Shishiga» — a cab-over-engine military all-wheel-drive truck with unmatched off-road capability for decades; 965,941 units built.
GAZ-3307since 1989The fourth generation of Gorky medium-duty trucks with a new cab, replacing the GAZ-52/53; the gasoline version was produced until the family was phased out in the late 2010s.
GAZellesince 1994The one-and-a-half-tonne GAZ-3302/2705/3221 family, which saved the plant in the 1990s and created the light commercial vehicle class in Russia; series production began in July 1994 (from 2010, «GAZelle Business»).
GAZ-33091994–2020The diesel version of the GAZ-3307 medium-duty truck (from 1999 with the Minsk-built D-245 diesel engine); discontinued in January 2020 in favor of the GAZon NEXT.
GAZ-3308 "Sadko""))»1997–2020An all-wheel-drive military truck — successor to the GAZ-66, built on GAZ-3307/3309-family components; replaced from 2019 by the «Sadko NEXT».
Sobol)since 1998A compact family built on «GAZelle» components (the GAZ-2752 van, the GAZ-2217 «Barguzin» minibus) with a shortened wheelbase and independent front suspension; in production since November 1998.
Valdai2004–2015A cab-over-engine city truck, the GAZ-33104, with a 3.5–4 t payload, positioned between the «GAZelle» and the GAZ-3309; since 2021 the name has been carried by the new-generation «Valdai NEXT».
GAZelle NEXTsince 2013A new generation of the one-and-a-half-tonne family with independent front suspension and a world-class cab; series production began on April 9, 2013.
GAZon NEXTsince 2014The fifth generation of Gorky medium-duty trucks, replacing the GAZ-3309; production launched on September 19, 2014, and it leads the Russian market in its class.
GAZelle NNsince 2021The third generation of the «GAZelle» with a digital electronic architecture, named for the 800th anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod; series production began on May 20, 2021, and in 2023 the family was joined by the «Sobol NN».

Off-road vehicles

A GAZ-69AM in an «Avtoexport» promotional booklet.
A GAZ-69AM in an «Avtoexport» promotional booklet.
NameYearsDescription
GAZ-611940–1945The first Soviet all-wheel-drive passenger car (designer V. A. Grachev); 194 GAZ-61-73 staff sedans carried Red Army marshals, and about 240 cars were built in total, including phaetons and pickups.
GAZ-641941–1943The first Soviet mass-produced military off-road vehicle, designed in 51 days; about 670 units built, and it served as the base for the BA-64 armored car.
GAZ-671943–1953A mass military off-road vehicle of the war years (from 1944 the upgraded GAZ-67B); 92,843 units built over ten years.
GAZ-691953–1972The «kozlik» military off-road vehicle, created in Gorky to replace the GAZ-67B; built at GAZ until 1956, after which production was transferred to the Ulyanovsk automobile plant.
GAZ-M721955–1958An all-wheel-drive «Pobeda» on GAZ-69 running gear — essentially the world's first mass-produced crossover with a comfortable passenger-car body; 4,677 units built.

Buses

NameYearsDescription
GAZ-03-301933–1950A service 17-seat bus on the GAZ-AA/GAZ-MM chassis, built by GAZ's bus-building subsidiary; 18,613 units — the country's most mass-produced pre-war bus (production was interrupted in 1941–1945).

Amphibious vehicles

NameYearsDescription
GAZ-46 MAV1953–1958The "small amphibious vehicle" — a mass-produced military amphibian on GAZ-69 running gear for reconnaissance and pontoon-bridge units; production at GAZ ended when the base vehicle was transferred to Ulyanovsk.

Armored vehicles

NameYearsDescription
BA-641942–1946A light all-wheel-drive armored car on GAZ-64/67 components, the only Soviet armored car of wartime design to reach series production; GAZ built 8,174 units (3,901 BA-64 and 4,273 BA-64B).
T-701942–1943A light tank designed at GAZ's design bureau under N. A. Astrov (factory index GAZ-70); of the 8,231 units built, over 80% were assembled by GAZ — the second most mass-produced Soviet tank of the war.
SU-76M1943–1945A light self-propelled gun on paired Gorky engines, which replaced the T-70 on GAZ's assembly line from the autumn of 1943; developed under N. A. Astrov, GAZ was the lead plant producing the most mass-produced Soviet armored vehicle of the war after the T-34.
BTR-601960–1976The world's first mass-produced four-axle amphibious armored personnel carrier, created at GAZ's design bureau under V. A. Dedkov (adopted into service in 1959); built at the automobile plant until 1976, the progenitor of the BTR-70/BTR-80 line.
BTR-701976–1986A wheeled armored personnel carrier designed at GAZ's design bureau (adopted into service in 1972), produced serially at GAZ, and from 1981 at the Arzamas auto-parts plant (later the Arzamas Machine-Building Plant); replaced in production by the BTR-80.
BTR-80since 1984The GAZ-5903 armored personnel carrier, designed at GAZ's design bureau incorporating experience from Afghanistan; produced by the Arzamas Machine-Building Plant since February 24, 1984.
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Prototypes

NameYearsDescription
GAZ-3105 "Volga""»1992–1996A flagship sedan with permanent all-wheel drive and a V8, conceived as a successor to the «Chaika»; only 55 cars of a small series were built.
GAZ-161962An experimental hovercraft using «Chaika» components (designer A. A. Smolin); only a handful of units were built, and the project was closed at the end of 1962.
GAZ-621952–1962An experimental light all-wheel-drive truck (the first prototype dates to 1940, and a cab-over version to 1959); a small series of about 70 units, the project gave way to the GAZ-66.
GAZ-2308 "Ataman""»1996–2000An experimental frame-based pickup with a cab from the GAZ-3307 and «Volga» body panels; the project never went beyond a pilot production batch of about a hundred units.

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