Located in Izhevsk, Udmurtia, Russia
Brief History: IzhMash was founded
in 1807 as an order of Czar Alexander I. It was built as a fire-arm
factory and has produced much of Russia's firearms. During WWII
for example, the factory made 11.3 million rifles and machineguns.
(that's more then the total German production of 10.3 million).
After the Great Patriotic War (WWII) IzhMash began producing the
famous AK-47 Kalashnikovs. AK-47 right now are being used by
armies and special forces in 106 counties. Car production on
IzhMash was organized on April 6, 1966. At first, 
MZMA-408 was to be made here. On
December 12, 1966 the first Moskvich-408 (with the "Izh"
emblem) came out of the assembly room. In 1967, production of MZMA-412 was started. The automotive
branch of the plant was quickly picking up pace and using miles
of assembly lines. Soon to follow was the presentation of Izh-2125
"kombi" (station wagon) and Izh-2715 small van. Unlike
previously made models, these two were developed by the plants
own engineers. By 1971 the production of these cars was well
underway. On october 27, 1977 1,000,000th Izh was made. In 1984,
Izh-2126 was developed and authorized for production. By 1998
overall over 3,900,000 cars have been made on IzhMash.
Click here to see where IZH photos have been obtained.
| Model | Years of Production |
 MZMA-408 |
1966-1967 |
| MZMA-412 |
1967-1971 |
| Izh-2125, Izh-2715 |
1982-present |
| Izh-2126, Izh-2717 |
1991-present |
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Special thanks to Evgeny Smirnov for his time and effort in helping me create this website and Andrei Bogomolov for letting me use his resources.
Click here to see where IZH photos have been obtained.
If there are any questions, corrections or pictorial contributions, please E-mail them to me.
Page created on Sunday, August 29, 1999. Page last updated on Monday, December 10, 2001 09:11:49 PM EST.