ZiL
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- This page is about the Russian car and truck factory. For other meanings, see ZIL (disambiguation).
| AMO ZiL (Avtomobilnoe Moskovskoe Obshchestvo - Zavod Imeni Likhacheva) | |
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| Type | Joint Stock Company |
| Founded | 1916 |
| Headquarters |  Moscow |
| Key people | Konstantin Laptev, General Director (2002 - Present) |
| Industry | Automotive |
| Products | Luxury Automobiles Heavy Road Vehicles Offroad Vehicles Military Vehicles |
| Website | Official AMO ZiL website |
Zavod imeni Likhacheva More commonly called ZIL (or ZiL, Russian: Завод имени Лихачёва (ЗиЛ) — Likhachev Factory, literally "Factory named after Likhachev") is a major Russian truck and heavy equipment manufacturer, which also produced armored cars for most Soviet leaders, as well as buses, armored fighting vehicles, and aerosans. The company also produces hand-built limousines and high-end luxury sedans in extremely low quantities, primarily for the Russian government. ZIL passenger cars are priced at the equivalent of models from Maybach and Rolls-Royce, but are largely unknown outside the CIS and production rarely exceeds a dozen cars per year.
The factory was founded in 1916 as Avtomobilnoe Moskovskoe Obshchestvo (AMO, Russian Автомобильное Московское Общество (АМО) — Moscow Automotive Enterprise). The plans were to produce Fiat F-15 1.5 ton trucks under license. Because of the October Revolution and the subsequent Russian Civil War it took until 1 November 1924 to produce the first vehicle, the AMO-F-15. In 1931 the factory was re-equipped and expanded with the help of the U.S. A.J. Brandt Co., changed its name to Automotive Factory No. 2 Zavod Imeni Stalina (ZIS or ZiS). After Nikita Khrushchev denounced the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin in 1956, the name was changed again to Zavod Imeni Likhacheva, after its former director Ivan Alekseevich Likhachev.
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[edit] Models
[edit] Limousines
- ZIS-101 (1936)
- ZIS-110 (1942)
- ZIS-115
- ZIL-111 (1958)
- ZIL-114
- ZIL-115
- ZIL-117
- ZIL-4104
- ZIL-41041
- ZIL-41047
- ZIL-4105
[edit] Trucks
- AMO-F-15 (1924)
- AMO-3 (1931)
- ZIS-5, ZIS-6 (1934, copies of the U.S. Autocar 2 10-cwt truck)
- ZIS-22, ZIS-42 (1941?)
- ZIS-128
- ZIS-150 (1947)
- ZIS-151 (1948)
- ZIL-164 (1957)
- ZIL-157 (1958)
- ZIL-130 (1964)
- ZIL-131(1967)
- ZIL-133 (1975)
- ZIL-135 (19??)
- ZIL-5301 "Bychok" ("Bull") (1992)
- ZIL-6404 (1996)
- ZIL-6309 (1999)
- ZIL-6409 (1999)
- ZIL-433180 (2003)
- ZIL-432930 (2003)
- ZIL-4327 (2004?)
- ZIL-4334 (2004)
[edit] Buses
- ZIS-8
- ZIS-16 (1941?)
- ZIS-154
- ZIS-155 (1949)
- ZIS-127 (1955)
- ZIL-158 (1957)
- ZIL-118 "Yunost" (1967)
- ZIL-3250 (1998)
[edit] Sport and racing cars
- ZIS-101 Sport (1939)
- ZIS-112/4 (1958)
- ZIL-112 Sports (1960-62)
- ZIL-412 S (1962)
[edit] Misc
- B-3 half-tracked transporter
- ZIS-152 armored personnel carrier
- ZIS-458 amphibious vehicle
- ZIL-4906 amphibious vehicle
- ZIL-41041 sedan
- ZIL-41047 limousine
- ZIL-4102 prototype saloon
- ZIL-E-167 all-terrain vehicle
[edit] References
- Zaloga, Steven J., James Grandsen (1984). Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two, p. 44. London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 0-85368-606-8.
[edit] See also
- Soviet Artillery Factory No. 92 was also named Zavod imeni Stalina (ZiS)
[edit] External links
- Official web-site of ZIL
- History of ZIL at ukcar.com
- History of ZIL at digilander.libero.it
- (Russian) History of ZIL at avtomash.ru
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