Nizhny Novgorod, being one of the most industrially active cities in Russia, has a well-developed infrastructure, which includes many enterprises of various types. One of the oldest, most famous and largest enterprises operating in Nizhny Novgorod and supplying products not only to Russian cities, but also to foreign countries, is the GAZ plant.
The plant is one of the largest Russian suppliers of vehicles of various carrying capacities and types. The enterprise was founded in 1932 as Nizhny Novgorod car factory. In the same year, together with the American production group Ford motor Company released the first car - a one and a half ton truck NAZ-AA, two years after it was renamed GAZ-AA. A few months later, the GAZ automobile plant began the development and subsequent construction of a five-seater GAZ-A passenger car.
Despite the fact that initially the vehicles manufactured by the Gorky Automobile Plant were manufactured according to the drawings of the Ford Motor Company, they had some differences. Thus, based on American drawings, combined with own developments The plant produced an extensive line of car models. Over time, the GAZ automobile plant has continuously developed, developing new models of vehicles. During the Second World War, the company was reoriented to the construction military equipment- SUVs, off-road vehicles, armored vehicles, mortars and self-propelled guns were produced.
In the postwar years, the GAZ plant in Nizhny Novgorod updated the line cars, as well as launching new trucks. 1970 in the history of the plant was marked by the reorganization of production: on the basis of branches and the head enterprise, the AvtoGAZ production company was formed, which included a total of 11 capacities.
Over time, the GAZ plant, whose official website can be easily found on the Internet, developed and produced minibuses, fixed-route taxis and light trucks. For all the time of its activity, the company has been continuously developing, growing with branches and developing new opportunities. The GAZ plant has several state awards, and is actively cooperating with large enterprises not only in Russia, but also in many foreign countries.
Gorky Automobile Plant: products
The plant, being one of the largest Russian enterprises automotive industry, produces a wide range of vehicles for various purposes. Gorky Automobile Plant produces:
- light vehicles;
- medium duty vehicles;
- buses;
- heavy vehicles;
- power units.
The GAZ plant in Nizhny Novgorod also produces more than three hundred types of special-purpose equipment built on the basis of production models: dump trucks, food and fuel tanks, medical and fire trucks, school buses, manufactured goods vans, hydraulic lifts and others.
The GAZ plant in Nizhny Novgorod is a well-deserved leader in the automotive industry!
(GAZ) is currently the largest enterprise in the Russian automotive industry, which is part of the automotive holding GAZ Group. Produces the widest range trucks, special equipment, auto components.
The decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy (VSNKh) of the USSR on the construction of a large automobile plant near Nizhny Novgorod was adopted on April 6, 1929. On May 31, the Supreme Economic Council of the USSR concluded with the American by Ford Motor Company agreement on technical assistance in organizing and establishing mass production cars of the Ford-A type and trucks of the Ford-AA type.
Technological and structural design of the automobile plant was carried out in the USA mainly by Soviet engineers in close cooperation with the Ford Motor Company. The architectural and construction project was developed by Austin & K.
On May 2, 1930, the foundation stone of the future automobile plant was laid near Nizhny Novgorod, and by November 1, 1931, the construction was basically completed. The automobile plant received the best domestic equipment and machine tools, presses, machines from the USA and European countries (Germany, England, Italy, France) at that time. To launch the first stage, 4.5 thousand different units, eight thousand electric motors were installed.
In 1994, the plant began production of new light commercial vehicles GAZ-3302 "GAZelle", in 2010 - a modernized car "GAZelle-BUSINESS".
In 2011, the plant developed new line agricultural vehicles "Ermak". In 2013, the production of vehicles of the new NEXT family began with the release of the GAZelle NEXT light commercial vehicle. Based on the basic model, by 2016, a complete line commercial vehicles gross weight from 2.8 to 5.0 tons.
Over the years, car manufacturers have developed more than 40 basic models trucks and cars, as well as military and special vehicles and buses, hundreds of their modifications and experimental designs. The plant produced over 18 million cars and trucks.
Gorky Automobile Plant today - the key enterprise of the GAZ Group - produces light and medium-duty commercial vehicles (minibuses, vans and combi vans, chassis, flatbed vehicles), over 300 types of special equipment, as well as automotive components (PowerTrain systems, control systems, body parts, tooling, forging parts, iron and non-ferrous castings). The most popular automobile brands of the plant are GAZelle, Sobol, Valdai and Sadko.
In addition to the development and production of its own model range of vehicles, GAZ cooperates with international automakers Volkswagen and Daimler. Since 2013, GAZ has been producing Š cars in the contract assembly mode. koda Yeti, Volkswagen Jetta and Škoda Octavia, as well as commercial Mercedes-Benz cars Sprinter.
The company's products are sold in Russia, CIS countries and far abroad. Share of GAZ on Russian market light commercial vehicles - about 50%, in the segment medium duty trucks- about 70%.
The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources
Hello, dear readers of the blog "Auto-Junior". Among the labor achievements of the era of the socialist system in our country, he is one of the main creations of collective labor. How did it start legendary story gas plant?
On March 4, 1929, the order of the Supreme Economic Council of the USSR No. 498 was issued, which refers to the government's decision to build a modern automobile plant with an annual capacity of 100,000 cars.
On April 6 of the same year, a decision was approved on the choice of the area for the construction of the future automobile plant. They became a place in the vicinity of the village of Monastyrka, near Nizhny Novgorod.
This choice was not made by chance. Even then, at the very beginning of socialist industrialization, the Nizhny Novgorod province was one of the largest industrial regions of the country. In Nizhny Novgorod and its environs, machine-building and metalworking plants were located: Krasnaya Etna, Metalist, Engine of the Revolution, Krasnoye Sormovo, a shipyard named after V.I. Ulyanov, a plant named after Vorobyov and others. And according to this, Nizhny had a fairly skilled workforce.
In addition, the Urals with its metallurgical base are close, and two rivers, at the confluence of which the Lower is located, made it possible to deliver everything necessary for the needs of the plant by inexpensive water.
To implement the plans, the construction department "Avtostroy" was created, and S. S. Dyvets was appointed head of it.
From the beginning of 1929, several delegations of specialists visited the United States, agreeing on the technical documentation for the construction of the plant and the use of American drawings for the production of two basic models.
On May 31, 1929, an agreement was signed between the Henry Ford Company (Ford Motor Company) and the USSR Supreme Economic Council. Under this agreement, the Soviet side was to receive technical assistance from an American company in the construction and commissioning of a new plant, the right to manufacture two models of Ford cars, namely: Ford-A type cars and 1.5-ton Ford-type trucks. -AA manufactured in the USA since 1927. Also, the American side was supposed to train specialists. Term technical cooperation was fixed for nine years.
Another foreign company also had a hand in the birth of the plant. Joint-Stock Company Austin & Co took part in the development technical projects and working drawings of the architectural and construction part of the plant.
In August 1929, a giant construction site began to boil near Nizhny Novgorod - site preparation began, and already on May 2, 1930, a solemn ceremony of laying the first stone in the foundation of the future auto giant took place. Almost 50 thousand people were employed at this construction site. The construction was supervised by the civil engineer M. M. Tsarevsky.
At the age of twenty, M. M. Tsarevsky joined the Bolshevik Party in 1917. In 1918 he volunteered for the Red Army, served in the troops of the VK and OGPU, actively participated in the defense of the Soviet Republic. Already since 1925, M. M. Tsarevsky was the head of a number of important construction projects, where his talent as a builder and organizer was fully revealed. For special services to the state, M. M. Tsarevsky was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. He was awarded four Orders of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour, two Orders of the Red Star and seven medals.
Further, the main front of the industrial construction of the automobile plant was deployed. Together with the production buildings of the workshops, it was necessary to build a heat and power plant, a water intake on the Oka River, build a large housing estate near the plant and lay a complex system of communications between all this.
Competently executed design work, excellent organization of work, high personal responsibility of each, have borne fruit. On the site of wastelands near a small village, a modern car factory was rapidly rising. Just a year and a half after laying the foundation, in November 1931, almost all factory buildings were ready for equipment installation.
Imagine - in just the next two months, with the help of foreign specialists, 450 machine tools and units and about 80 thousand electric drives were mounted in thirty huge buildings ... ... an amazing scale, which machine-building plants did not yet know.
But the need for cars was so high that, simultaneously with the construction of the Gorky Automobile Plant, they were assembled from imported units at, as well as at the Nizhny Novgorod plant "Gudok Oktyabrya".
Also, in parallel with the construction of the automobile plant, since 1930, large-scale work was carried out to train professional personnel at the Avtostroy training bases. The plant "Gudok Oktyabrya" mentioned above, which at that time carried out SKD ford cars, led the training of workers for the main conveyor, and at the Nizhny Novgorod Shipyard named after V.I. At the CIT courses there are tool-makers.
Thus, by December 1931, for the first shift, 11,503 workers and technical personnel were trained. Looking ahead, let's say that in 1932 another 600 qualified specialists returned from training at the factories of Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Rostov-on-Don, Kharkov.
On January 1, 1932, the automobile plant went into operation operating ...
... and on January 29, 1932, at 19:15, to the sound of a factory whistle, shouts of "Hurrah!" and applause, the first truck of the Nizhny Novgorod Automobile Plant came off. On January 31, the 25th car rolled off the assembly line. From February 28 of the same year, a schedule was set at the plant - to produce five cars daily.
The truck was equipped with an in-line four-cylinder engine with a volume of 3285 cm3 and a power of 40 hp. from Ford-A cars and Ford-AA. The fuel supply was carried out by gravity, the valve drive was unregulated, and the electrical system was very simple. All this simplified maintenance and did not require the driver to have special knowledge in technology.
At the same time, the "one and a half" had quite modern at that time technical solutions- aluminum pistons, electric starter, 4 step box gears, helical gears in the main gear, cardan shaft inside a rigid tube.
The first samples were produced with a wooden cabin, and only in 1934 it was replaced by an all-metal one. The car weighed only 1,750 kilograms, had a top speed of 70 km/h and consumed 19.5 liters of low-grade gasoline per 100 kilometers.
In the first 20 days, 136 "one and a half" were assembled, and on this the components and parts previously delivered to the plant ran out, but there were no new deliveries. At the end of March, the conveyor stopped. G. K. Ordzhonikidze arrived in Nizhny Novgorod to identify the reasons for the stoppage of the factory conveyor.
After his report, on April 20, 1932, the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks adopted a resolution "On the Nizhny Novgorod Automobile Plant." It emphasized that, in terms of its equipment and machinery, the plant is quite capable of fulfilling and even overfulfilling the task assigned to it, but does not fulfill it mainly due to unsatisfactory management.
The Party Committee and the entire Party organization of the plant in its shops and departments promptly launched organizational and educational work. It was aimed at a resolute struggle against marriage, at the mass production of high-quality machines and at the full development of new technology. Special attention the communists gave to the latter.
Difficulties were overcome slowly. Within six months, an average of about ten cars rolled off the assembly line per shift. As a result, by June 27, 1932, only 1008 NAZ-AA cars were produced by the automobile plant ...
... until mid-1932, the plant was called the Nizhny Novgorod Automobile Plant (NAZ). The first 1.5-ton trucks that rolled off its assembly line bore the NAZ-AA brand. It remained for several more months until the city was named after the writer Maxim Gorky, after which the plant was renamed the Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ).
In July 1932, a new director of the automobile plant was appointed. They became S. S. Dyakonov, who had previously held the post of deputy manager of the All-Union Automobile and Tractor Association (VATO). The team immediately felt that a real leader came, talented, broad-minded and well versed in production.
December 6, 1932 started GAZ-A production, a passenger car of the middle class with a five-seat four-door chaise-type body. It was quite strongly unified with the "one and a half". The cars were equipped with the same power units, front axle parts, front plumage parts, etc., which was very economically feasible at that time.
The first cars of the GAZ-A and GAZ-AA models were made according to the drawings of the Americans. But even then they had several differences from the American prototypes - in the domestic version, the clutch housing and steering gear were strengthened, the shape of the radiators was changed, and the inch thread was replaced with a metric one. Combining the use of Ford's developments with the search and implementation of their own solutions, the designers created many modifications based on the legendary "one and a half".
From the beginning of 1933, things at the car factory went much better. automakers Gorky plant have already shared technical experience with workers from other factories, including the Moscow Automobile Plant.
In the summer of 1933, the Karakum run took place, which became a serious test of quality Soviet cars. The rally participants were 20 trucks and cars from the Gorky and Moscow Automobile Plants.
The convoy traveled 9500 km along the route Moscow - Gorky - Tashkent - Karakum - Khiva - Krasnovodsk - Baku - Tbilisi - Ordzhonikidze - Rostov-on-Don - Kharkov - Moscow, of which 6 thousand kilometers were on unpaved, country roads, in some places very bad roads, and 1 thousand - on loose sands.
At a meeting in GUTAP, it was noted that the run revealed not only the positive qualities of domestic cars, but also a number of weaknesses, most of which were flaws in related industries.
In 1933, the production of a 17-seat service bus GAZ-03-30 began, the leading designer of which was N. I. Borisov. It was produced at the car assembly plant No. 1 (since 1946 - Gorky bus factory(GZA)). In fact, it was a "lorry" with a bus cabin.
In the same year on the basis car GAZ-A was created and put into production pickup GAZ-4 with an all-metal cab and a metal platform for 500 kg of cargo, developed under the guidance of designer Yu.N. Sorochkin. It was produced at the Gorky Automobile Assembly Plant. In addition, the GAZ-6 sedan was produced there in small series.
At the end of 1934, a 2-ton three-axle GAZ-AAA truck with a 6x4 wheel formula, developed with the participation of the famous designer V.A., got on the conveyor. Grachev. The main features of the GAZ-AAA were the suspension of the two rear axles on four longitudinal semi-elliptical springs (instead of the two balancing ones that were used on American cars) and the worm main gear for driving axles developed at GAZ.
Later, a 1.2-ton dump truck GAZ-410 appeared with inertial mechanism body tipping. Both of these models were also created on the basis of GAZ-AA.
On April 17, 1935, the 100,000th car rolled off the assembly line of the automobile plant. They became GAZ-A in the performance of "luxury". Of course, this was a very important and solemn event for the plant staff. Thus, GAZ was the first car factory in the country to produce 100,000 cars.
So, for the first time in the USSR, with the technical assistance of American specialists from the Ford Motor Company, it was mastered conveyor production cars.
According to an agreement with Ford Motor Company, GAZ continued to receive technical support from an American company, and the USSR received documentation for the model. Ford Model b 1933 model year. She was different closed body with a modern look and a four-cylinder engine (in contrast to the Ford Model 18 with a complex eight-cylinder engine).
However, the design team of GAZ, headed in 1933 by a talented specialist and organizer A.A. Lipgart, taking into account not only the experience gained in the production, testing and operation of the first model, but also his own point of view on the domestic car, resolutely refused to blindly copy the American model.
Since GAZ abandoned the use of an eight-cylinder engine, it was significantly modernized and boosted from 40 to 50 hp. already produced four-cylinder engine. But the main changes affected the chassis. A frame of increased strength was created and new design suspensions - on four longitudinal springs instead of two transverse springs, spoked wheels gave way to stamped ones, with tires of increased dimension. The reasons are clear - the Ford chassis turned out to be practically unsuitable for work in the conditions of Russian roads.
The appearance of the car has also been changed. Due to the enlargement of the front part, the lengthening of the frame and the wheelbase, the proportions became better, the appearance of the entire front assembly - wings, hood and radiator lining - became more interesting.
From October 1935 to October 1936, in connection with the development of a new model of the GAZ M-1 passenger car, the plant carried out repairs of existing equipment and installation of new equipment.
On March 16, 1936, the production of the first domestic model of the GAZ M-1 (Molotovets-1) passenger car, better known as the Emka, was launched. This car became the most massive pre-war Soviet passenger car model.
The development of the M-1 model raised the GAZ team to a new technical level, created the prerequisites for further creative growth of designers. In the future, the development of GAZ took place along the path of gradual and methodical improvement and modernization of the model range.
The GAZ M-1 model has a peculiar biography. Year after year, undergoing constant modernization, it faithfully served people from the late 30s to the 50s. Based on the M-1, a GAZ-415 pickup truck with a payload capacity of 400 kg was developed and since 1937 has been mass-produced. "Emki" were also produced with a 6-cylinder engine, which received the GAZ-11 index, but about it a little later ...
In 1937, at the branch of the Gorky Automobile Plant, the production of the GAZ-55 ambulance bus based on the "lorry" began.
By 1938, with the launch of the second stage, the car plant exceeded its design capacity, producing about 140 thousand cars, of which trucks accounted for 70-80%. Gradually, GAZ launched on its territory the production of 76% of all parts of the basic GAZ-AA series.
In January 1938, the bureau of the Gorky Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, after discussing the situation at the automobile plant, informed the higher authorities that due to the lack of sheet steel, seamless pipes and chromium steels, the plant was forced to suspend the assembly of three-axle trucks and cars, and soon the production of "one and a half" will have to be stopped. But the situation with interruptions in the supply of metals persisted in 1939-40.
Sometimes the plant still received metal and parts in the required volume, but then another problem arose - overtime work, which caused wage overruns.
A new victory for GAZ designers was the development of a 6-cylinder GAZ-11 engine - the "six". Relatively light weight compact dimensions, efficiency and other technical characteristics, put this engine on a par with the latest developments of American engineers. This engine with a working volume of 3485 cm3 and a power of 76 hp not only improved the dynamics of domestic cars, but also opened up prospects for its use on future truck designs, as well as on light tanks and self-propelled units.
"Emka", equipped with a new engine, received the GAZ-11-73 index. The first samples of this car were ready in 1938. Except power plant, a number of improvements were introduced on the machines. The front springs were lengthened, the brakes became more efficient, the instrument panel was updated, etc. On the basis of the GAZ-11-73, the GAZ-11-40 car with a phaeton body was created, but the car did not reach serial production.
But the all-wheel drive modification of "Emka" - GAZ-61, created under the leadership of V.A. Grachev, mass-produced. The car could overcome rather steep slopes - up to 38o, easily climbed steep pedestrian stairs and overcame a ford up to 720 mm deep. Experts argued that when installing special tires with developed lugs, the GAZ-61 outperformed half-tracked vehicles in terms of cross-country ability.
Also in 1938, after a slight modernization, the first-born model of the automobile plant received the GAZ-MM index. The truck began to be equipped with a 50 hp engine. and a steering gear from a GAZ M-1 passenger car. Several new vehicles were developed on the GAZ-MM chassis.
In the same year, in the month of April, work began on 4x4 trucks, but the aforementioned production, as well as some technical difficulties, made it possible to assemble only two experimental GAZ-62 and GAZ-63 cars with a GAZ-11 engine and different wheelbases, as well as three-axle GAZ-33 and GAZ-34 with a wheel arrangement of 6x6.
In 1939, the GAZ-42 appeared - a modification of the "lorry" with a gas generator unit that worked on wood chocks. This bulky unit weighed the car by 240 kg, reduced engine power to 30 hp. and load capacity up to 1.2 tons.
At the same time, a batch of the first domestic gas-cylinder trucks GAZ-44 was released, working on compressed air up to 200 atmospheres. natural gas. The power reserve was 200-300 kilometers. Engine power was 42 hp, load capacity - 1.1 tons. In 1938-42, the GAZ-60 half-track truck with a payload capacity of 1.2 tons was produced. Its weight was 3375 kilograms and it could reach speeds of 35 km/h on the highway. Both models were based, again, on the "one and a half" platform.
In the early 40s, an army commander's office was created at GAZ all-wheel drive vehicle GAZ-64. And the first production car was released in August 1941, almost simultaneously with the release of the famous American Willys-MA. At the same time, the GAZ-64 was superior to the American counterpart in many ways.
Not everyone knows about the developments of the Gorky Automobile Plant in the field of tank building. So, in 1936, the company produced a series of small amphibious tanks T-38, developed at the Moscow plant No. 37. However, after the delivery of 35 machines, their production was completed, and the design team began work on alternative small amphibious tank. Thus, the prototype TM ("Molotov Tank") was created, which in a number of characteristics was superior to the T-38, in a number it was inferior, and in general both of these models had extremely limited combat capability.
As a result, until the autumn of 1941, tank building at GAZ further development did not have, although the company had a huge potential for the production of light wheeled and tracked armored vehicles needed by the Red Army. he was in great demand.
Such is the history of the creation of GAZ. For an incomplete first ten years, he became the country's leading car factory and gave the USSR 450 thousand cars. It mastered the production of 17 models and modifications of cars and produced 68.3% of all cars produced in the USSR at that time. A great merit in this belongs to the first director of the plant, S.S. Dyakonov.
Plant "Gudok Oktyabrya" in Kanavino.
1930.7.16. Construction of the Main Gateway of the Automobile Plant, now it is the Komsomolskaya Gateway
1930.7.21. Repair and mechanical shop
1930s, UKS 1
1931.01.01. Power Power is a thermal power plant, if anyone does not know
1931.10.05. Mechanical assembly shop
1931.10.05. Mechanical assembly shop, inscription on the back of the previous photo
1931 presumably. Unpacked boxes with imported equipment. Sergei Petrov Lord! Equipment begins to arrive at the plant, but the place for its receipt and storage has not been prepared. The equipment arrives without documents and without prior notification. The labels attached to the boxes indicate the buildings in which the equipment they contain is to be installed, but there is no information on who, from where and what equipment was shipped: Two issues must be resolved immediately. It was necessary to urgently correct the situation in order to prevent a repeat of the mistake of the previous year, when the arrived equipment was scattered randomly right on the river bank and most of it was lost or stolen. Fred Coleman, Austin Engineer responsible for installing new equipment. From the book Richard Cartwright Austin - Building Utopia. At the Molotov Automobile Plant, then at Gorky Automobile Plant, then in the GAZ production department, then in the GAZ OJSC in the MA (equipment management) the attitude towards the equipment arriving at the plant did not change. It was stored in the same way as shown in this photo - in the open.
Signed on the back of the previous photo. This place, indicated in the photo, is just behind the current Main entrance on the territory of the plant. On the left - press production, on the right - RMK (mechanical repair building). There, in the open air, there were boxes with imported equipment bought for gold.
1931.11.14. General form plant with water tower
Manual traction instead of mechanical
Construction of the car factory. Judging by the age appearance and the clothes of the workers in the photo - it’s more like some kind of subbotnik, and not the construction of an automobile plant. In the 1930s, dense peasants worked at the construction site, who cannot be confused with these.
The rally dedicated to the completion of the construction of the plant. November 1, 1931 On January 29, 1932, the first car came off the assembly line - the NAZ-AA truck. Since December 1932, the assembly of a medium-class passenger car GAZ-A began at the automobile plant. It is practically impossible to record the completion of the construction of the whole plant, but since a rally has been held, it means that it is so - the construction is over!
Gorky Automobile Plant. Nizhny Novgorod region, 1950s. The design and experimental department (KEO, then UKER) has always stood apart from other engineering services of the plant. The building of engineering services (KIS) housed Proekt.U - a design department that could be compared with a large design institute and UGT - the department of the chief technologist with its own design and technology departments.
It looks like a square in front of the main entrance. Fountain, large flower bed in the same places.
The first truck "Ford" of the Soviet assembly - model AA. Nizhny Novgorod. car assembly plant No. 1. February 1, 1930 You give a five-year plan for 4 years in three shifts, on two machines, for one salary! Hurrah, comrades! Sergei Zhelezov. Personally, for many years I was a mechanical assembly worker at GAZ. He collected the Volga GAZ 31-029, GAZ 31-02, GAZ 31-10 in various modifications, and also the Volga-Siber. I would collect Skoda now, but I was lucky to get laid off. Now I.P. I have an antique.
1937, main conveyor
Conveyor GAZ-51 - 1946
Conveyor - GAZ-67.
A.A. Lipgart and A.N. Kirillov near the plasticine model of the Victory, 1945
This is the main conveyor. Subassembly area for the rear axles of trucks. Then these bridges are fed to the conveyor and installed on the chassis of the car.
Sales management car warehouse.
This is the main entrance. Previously, there was a checkpoint for workers (now this place is located KIS - building of engineering services). And the cars left at the same gate as now. Behind the entrance - IShK (tool-stamp case). On the left in the distance - the Body building at the Komsomol checkpoint.
View of the Body building from the side of the plant. It is located along Avtozavodskoye Highway from Komsomolskaya Gateway to North Gateway.
Painted and assembled car body GAZ-M1.
Behind the car GAZ-12 ZiM - Body case. On the right is a three-story building, which used to house the KEO, and later and until recently, this building housed the TsSLA - a car assembly shop.
Car assembly shop.
Old freight conveyor...
Yard at the body building.
This is TsSLA - a car assembly shop. On these stands, the alignment of the wheels is adjusted.
In this picture, the assembly of painted Siber bodies in KSiOK PLA-2 is in progress.
Here, cars are defended that the OTC did not let go on sale. Cars are placed next to the conveyor and defects are eliminated. Ideally, there should be no cars here.
Press forge. These are the presses of the Novo-Kramatorsk Mechanical Plant (NKMZ). Now we will get nothing from there - Ukraine!
Car assembly shop. On the conveyor - cars GAZ-24 "Volga".
CSLA. A painted, assembled and upholstered body of the Pobeda M-20 car is installed on the conductor conveyor.
Robotic line of the cabin welding workshop in the production of commercial vehicles. The workshop for assembly and welding of cabins is located on the 1st floor of the body building. Almost all the automated equipment of this workshop, except for welding robots, was designed and manufactured by the designers and workers of GAZ's own machine tool building department. Thanks to this, in a difficult period of general collapse, in the shortest possible time and at minimal cost, the production of Gazelles was mastered, which are produced on this equipment to this day.
GAZ-20 body tests for rigidity
Wooden demonstration model of the Victory, summer 1944
1955-1958 Photo by Alexander Anikin On the GAZ M-20V conductor conveyor Car assembly shop. The M-20 Pobeda car is being assembled on the conductor conveyor. Then, GAZ-21 and GAZ-24 Volga cars were assembled on the same conveyor.
Production of an exhaust die for a floor panel on a copy-milling machine at IShK. Above - a template, a wooden copy of the floor panel, below - a metal cast iron die casting, which is machined.
1952 freshly painted Pobeda being dried in an electric oven
In the photo, ZIM-12 (GAZ-12) cars. The photo is most likely from 1950.
The main assembly line for GAZ-4301 and GAZ-3307 cars.
Assembly shop No. 1. The assembly of the cab of the Gazelle is in progress.
main conveyor.
Car assembly shop - 2 (CSLA-2). It was rebuilt on the site of the demolished hydroelectric workshop, which adjoined the building of the passenger car workshop (CSLA) on the south side.
Assembly shop No. 1. Assembly of all-metal bodies.
Assembly shop No. 1. Subassembly of a hydraulic vacuum booster before installing it on a Gazelle.
Assembly shop No. 1. On floor conveyors, the painted cabins of the GAZ-3302 lorry are being assembled.
Gazelle Assembly Conveyor.
I took this photo around 1963 to send to my pen friend in England. Then it was in the spirit of the times to correspond with foreigners. I wanted to show with this photo that we in the USSR do not slurp cabbage soup with bast shoes. We know how to build modern buildings of glass and concrete. This is the first "modern" building on the automobile factory land. Vladimir Sergeev
CSLA. A GAZ-3102 executive class car is assembled on the conductor conveyor.
The picture shows a GAZ-22 Volga station wagon ambulance. Filmed inside the factory. On the left is the body building. To the right is the CSLA building.
Car assembly shop. Release of cars GAZ-21 "Volga".
1970 Car assembly shop. The end of the production of GAZ-21 Volga cars and the start of production of GAZ-24 Volga cars without stopping production.
Vladimir Sergeev Assembly shop №2. It was a workshop of high culture. Mostly women worked on the assembly. It was located on the 3rd production floor of the body building. All parts and components were delivered to the workshop by freight elevators. The assembly and upholstery of the bodies was carried out on floor conveyors, which moved the bodies along the covered gallery to the passenger car assembly shop.
GAZ-53 trucks are being assembled on the main conveyor.
The building of the Body building from the side of the plant. On the first floor of the Body Building there were: a large stamping shop, a medium stamping shop, a cabin assembly shop, a body assembly shop, a repair and tool shop, and a mechanical repair shop. Here, on the premises of the medium stamping workshop, there was a site for setting up large dies of the ISHK. On the second amenity floor, along the entire length of the body building, there were offices for managers, engineering services, a trade union committee, a party committee, a library and dressing rooms with showers for workers. On the second production floor there was a carcass and muffler workshop, a Red Corner and canteens. On the third floor, there was a GAZ-13 Chaika body shop and assembly shop No. 2, in which painted car bodies were assembled and upholstered. On the fourth floor of the body building there was a workshop for assembling the cabs of the GAZ-66 car. The finished GAZ-53 and GAZ-66 cabs were sent along the covered gallery on overhead conveyors to the truck assembly building, where they were painted and assembled. On the 4th floor of the body building there was also a body painting shop and a painting shop for small and medium-sized parts. The workshop for painting car bodies used to be part of the assembly shop No. 2 as a section. In 1970, a new part of the Body Building was added to the old Body Building - up to the Northern Gateway. This outbuilding housed equipment for welding and assembling GAZ-24 car bodies, which made it possible to switch to the production of the new Volga GAZ-24 instead of the Volga GAZ-21 without stopping production in 1970.
The GAZ-13 Seagull was not assembled on a common assembly line. Now she is standing on the stand for adjusting the camber-toe.
And until now, this feed tape exists at the factory in the same form.
CSLA. The removal of the car from the conductor conveyor and its installation on the floor conveyor was carried out by an automatic manipulator.
2014. 03. Forge
2014. 03. Forge
memorial sign
This is a forge production of a car factory. A steam hammer is installed on the stand near the hull, on which car parts were previously forged. If you go straight, 150 meters, then there will be a spring shop (in the same building) and opposite its road, to the right, to the Main entrance of the plant, past the Assembly of trucks and Gazelles, Press First and LIO.
Memorial plaque on the forge building
CSLA. Release of the thousandth car GAZ-3102 "Volga". From left to right: Kalikin V.P., Novikov F.P., Pugin N.A., Semennikov B.M., Pankov B.A. This picture was taken at the Passenger Car Assembly Shop (CSLA) on January 25, 1983. In this photo: Kalikin V.P., Novikov F.P., Pugin N.A., Semennikov B.M., Pankov B.A.
L.I. Brezhnev in assembly No. 2. Photo by N. Dobrovolsky
Solemn rally on the occasion of awarding GAZ with the Order of Lenin. 02/12/71. Photo by N. Dobrovolsky
2011.11.04 I give a finger!
2011.11.04 Doesn't come off, another one!
Photo from the book by M. N. Vdovin, A. M. Gorev "Everything for victory!"
The car is in the making
V.V. Lebedev and designer V.P. Duarte
The birth of the car
At the model of the car V.V. Lebedev
Sculptor-artist V.V. Lebedev
