Located near Moscow, Russia
Click
here or scroll down to see a
list of AMO,
ZIS & ZIL trucks.
Click
here or scroll down to see a
list of ZIS
& ZIL buses.
Click
here or scroll down to see a
list of ZIS
& ZIL cars.
Click here to see the photo credits.
Before AMO (Avtomobilnoe
Moskovskoe Obshchestvo [Moscow Automobile Enterprise]) was rebuilt
in 1931 it produced AMO-F-15 -- the first Soviet truck. After the
reconstruction, production of AMO-2 began, it looked similar to
ZIS-5. Soon, however, by 1932, after improvements to AMO-2; AMO-3
and AMO-4 were put on the assembly line. In 1933-1934 AMO was
rebuilt again and became known as ZIS
(Zavod Imeni Stalina [Stalin's Plant]). Thus, AMO no longer
existed, but ZIS began prodcution of its first truck -- ZIS-5. In
1941 the production line at ZIS was stopped and moved to
Ulianovsk [UAZ] and to Miass [UralZIS/UralAZ]. UAZ-ZIS produced
ZIS-5 from 1942-1944. By 1942 the main ZIS located in Moscow
restarted production of ZIS-5 and continued until 1947. The new
UralZIS plant in Miass started the production line of ZIS-5 in
summer of 1944 and put their own logos on the radiators,
continuing production until 1955. Also important to notice is
that from 1942 all ZIS-5 were outfitted with flat fenders and
wooden doors and seats. During the war years, just like GAZ-AA,
ZIS-5 had its bumper and right headlight removed. Then, in 1947-1948
along with the new ZIS-150 truck, a modified ZIS-5, indexed as
ZIS-50, was made with the new
ZIS-150 engine. In 1955 UralZIS modified ZIS-5,
giving it a new engine and more aerodynamical fenders, giving it
a name
UralZIS-355.
In 1956, however, shortly after Stalin's death some criticism for
not following in Lenin's footsteps prompted to factory to be
renamed ZIL - Zavod imeni Lihacheva,
i.e. Lihachev's Plant.
AMO, ZIS & ZIL Trucks
Model | Years of Production |
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1922? |
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1924-1931 |
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1931-1932 |
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1932-1934 |
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1934-1955 |
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1947-1957 |
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1948-1958 |
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experimental |
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1957-1965 |
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1958-1970s |
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1964-1992 |
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1967-1991 |
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1968 |
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1960's-1990's |
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1985-present |
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1994-present |
ZIS & ZIL Buses
Model | Years of Production |
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1933-1934 |
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1934-1941 |
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1947-1950 |
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1949-1957 |
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1956-1960 |
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1957-1961 |
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1963-1964 |
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1998-present |
ZIS & ZIL Cars
Model | Years of Production |
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1936-1941 |
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1946-1958 |
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1959-1967 |
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1962 |
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1967-1985 |
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experimental (1970's) |
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1985-present |
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 for picture credits. Every photo/drawing on every page is labeled with a number accordingly
If there are any questions, problems or most importantly PICTORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS, please E-mail them to me. I am thankful to anyone who provides me with comments and especially to those who can send me TRUCK PHOTOS.
Page created on Thursday, February 04, 1999. Page last updated on Sunday, February 10, 2002 01:59:38 AM EST.