The GAZ-MM is a

medium-duty truck Truck classifications are typically based upon the maximum loaded weight of the truck, typically using the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) and sometimes also the gross trailer weight rating (GTWR), and can vary among jurisdictions. United ...

( Class 4- Class 5) produced at the Gorki Auto Plant from 1938 to 1948, and then at the Ulyanovsky Auto Plant, up to 1956.> The truck was a modernized variant of the

GAZ-AA The GAZ-AA was a truck produced at the Gorki Auto Plant from 1932 to 1938, as the company's first truck produced under the ''GAZ'' brand name. History In 1929 the Soviet Union made an agreement with the Ford Motor Company to produce the Ford ...

truck, but using the engine from the

GAZ-M1 The GAZ M1 (“Эмка“/”Emka”) was a passenger car produced by the Soviet automaker GAZ between 1936 and 1943, at their plant in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia). Systematic production ended in 1941, but the factory was able to cont ...

, upgrading the vehicle's power to 50 hp.9>8> Due to some engine shortages at the factory, some believe that the actual mass-production of the GAZ-MM trucks only started in 1940, since the GAZ-M1 engine needed to get firstly used in the

GAZ-AAA The GAZ-AAA was a truck produced by GAZ. From 1936 to 1943, 37,373 units were built. Like the GAZ-AA and GAZ-MM it was largely based on the Ford Model AA truck. References External links GAZ-AAA in the Vladivostok Museum of Automotive Anti ...

and

BA-10 The BA-10 ( ru , Broneavtomobil 10, italic=yes) was an armored car developed in the Soviet Union in 1938 and produced through 1941. It was the most produced Soviet pre-1941 heavy armored car – 3311 were built in three versions. These versio ...

vehicles.> In 1942 a simplified variant of the truck, with the ''GAZ-MM-V'' index started getting produced, due to material shortages,> but limited production of the original "unsimplified" GAZ-MM continued. After the

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ended, the production of all the variants of the GAZ-MM fully restarted, but by that time the Gorki plant was producing the newer

GAZ-51 The GAZ-51 (nickname ''Gazon'') was a Soviet truck manufactured by GAZ. Its first prototypes were produced before the end of World War II and has been influenced by Studebaker US6. The mass production started in 1946. A 2.5 ton 4×2 standard var ...

truck, which was based on the design and pattern of the Studebaker US6 truck. Due to these reasons, the production of the GAZ-MM truck was transferred to the Ulyanovsky Auto Plant, where production lasted until 1956, when the vehicle was fully discontinued.

Variants

''Most of the variants of the GAZ-MM were just modernized variants of the ones from the

series.'' * GAZ-65: Prototype halftrack version. Produced in 1940. * 4M

: Anti-air truck fitted with quadruple 4M Maxim M1910 gun. * 72-K GAZ-MM: Anti-air truck fitted with a

25 mm automatic air defense gun M1940 (72-K) 25 mm automatic air defense gun M1940 (72-K) (russian: 25-мм автоматическая зенитная пушка образца 1940 года (72-К)) was a Soviet 25 mm caliber anti-aircraft gun used during the Great Patriotic W ...

cannon built during

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. *

GAZ-55 The GAZ-55 (russian: ГАЗ-55) was a Soviet military ambulance developed in the 1930s by Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (GAZ) and was used by the USSR during the Second World War. It was based on the GAZ-AA model. With only 9130 models ever being p ...

ambulance An ambulance is a medically equipped vehicle which transports patients to treatment facilities, such as hospitals. Typically, out-of-hospital medical care is provided to the patient during the transport. Ambulances are used to respond to medi ...

version. * GAZ-42: gas generator-powered version. * GAZ-MM-V: simplified variant.

Variants

References

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