The Gorky Automobile Plant is one of the oldest Soviet automobile enterprises, located in Nizhny Novgorod (the city of Gorky in Soviet times). Traditionally produced cars and trucks. The factory still operates to this day, with the exception of passenger car division.
The Pobeda passenger car was developed since 1943 and went into production in 1946 (in the first years it was produced individually and in small series). Became the prototype of the Polish FSO Warszawa. The car remained in production until 1958 in the USSR and until the early 1970s in Poland.
A representative car that replaced the GAZ-12 (ZIM). The family was produced from 1959 to 1981 without major upgrades.