Volga 1956-2010 - brand with symbolic value
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There were around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of them have disappeared. Volga is also one of these vanished brands. It was the second Soviet automobile factory and was long the symbolic car of the middle party cadre, but this was not enough to survive.
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Under "Volga", the "Automobil Revue catalog" states soberly and mercilessly: "Production discontinued in 2010." - In 1932, the second Soviet automobile factory, the Molotov Works, was put into operation in Nizhny Novgorod, to the north-east of Moscow. In honor of the national poet, the city was soon renamed Gorky (valid until 1990). Ford licensed models were followed in 1946 by the Pobyeda, a proprietary design , and in 1955 by the Volga with a self-supporting body and 2.45 L OHV four-cylinder engine. It became the symbolic car of the middle party cadre for a good three decades. There were also Volga models assembled in Belgium, and these could be ordered with a Perkins or Peugeot Indénor diesel engine.
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