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Moskvitch

Car manufacturer in Russia. After World War II the Soviet union brought the entire manufacuting plant for Opel Kadett[?] from Rüsselheim[?] in Germany with them. A factory called MZMA (Moskovsky Zavod Malolitrazhnykh Avtomobiley) started in in 1947 to manufacture an automobile called Moskvitch 400 based on the Opel. The factory later changed name to AZLK (Avtomobilny Zavod imeni Leninskogo Komsomola).

Links

http://www.azlk.ru/
http://ilia-gp.narod.ru/AZLK/enter.htm
http://mzma.chat.ru/head.htm

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