A complete list of popular brands of Russian cars with badges
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A Russian automobile company that produced premium sports cars from 2007 to 2014. She became famous thanks to the development of the first domestic Formula 1 car.
The line of Russian cars was presented at the largest exhibition in 1913. This is the first car show in Russia, held under the patronage of Emperor Nicholas II. However, the mass production of Russian cars began after the overthrow of the tsar and the formation of the Soviet Union. This article provides a complete list of popular Russian car brands with badges.
A Brief History of the Russian Automotive Industry
An overview of popular brands of Russian cars with badges is impossible without a brief digression into the history of the domestic auto industry.
The first mass-produced car in the USSR was the GAZ A, produced by the Gorky plant. The years of production of the model are 1932-1936. The first samples came off the assembly line with a chaise body type (folding top). In the future, production was supplemented by sedans and pickups. The car was equipped with a 3,3-liter internal combustion engine with a capacity of 40 "horses". The maximum speed of the model was 90 km per hour.
The first Russian folk car - "Moskvich 400"
The first Russian folk car, Moskvich 400, was produced by the Moscow Automobile Plant in 1936. The car was equipped with a 1,1 liter engine with a capacity of 23 horsepower, a 3-speed manual gearbox. Initially, only 4-door sedans were made. Later, production was supplemented by other types of bodies: convertible, van, pickup.
Continuing the brief history of the Soviet-Russian automobile industry, one cannot fail to mention the auto giant VAZ, founded in 1966. The release of the first VAZ-2101 cars dates back to 1970. The famous "penny" refers to small-class models with a sedan-type body. The car has become truly popular, and its mass production has significantly expanded the domestic car market.
The undisputed leader in the production of Russian large trucks was and remains KAMAZ (Kama Automobile Plant). The enterprise was founded in 1969 in the Republic of Tatarstan (TASSR), on the territory of the city of Naberezhnye Chelny. After successful performances at the Paris-Dakar rally, KAMAZ diesel trucks have become a true legend of the Russian automobile industry.
Badges of popular Russian brands
Signs of Russian cars were developed by designers as a distinctive logo for each car factory. We present a list of popular brands of Russian cars with badges and logo design decoding.
Lada (concern Avtovaz)
Many motorists are familiar with the badges of Russian Lada cars. This is a blue circle, in the middle of which is a white boat, a symbol of the Volga River. In ancient times, merchants on boats transported goods along this waterway. Initially, the concern's logo was a rectangle with the abbreviation "VAZ" in the center.
Lada (concern Avtovaz)
The design of the emblem with the image of a rook was invented by the designer-bodybuilder of the Volga Automobile Plant (VAZ) Alexander Dekalenkov. As the legend goes, he drew a triangular sketch of the logo on a sheet of an ordinary school notebook. Over time, the icon has changed: turned into a pentagon. And in the center appeared a boat invented by Dekalenkov, stylized as the letter "B".
Over the years, the shape of the badge has changed several times. The logo again became quadrangular, the background color of the sign changed from red to black. Finally, the last sign for today was a more voluminous, vertically elongated, blue oval with a white boat in the middle.
UAZ
The history of the logos of the legendary Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant has about 10 variations. The first emblem, flaunted on UAZ cars, is a stylized "U", the first letter of the name of the city of Ulyanovsk.
The history of the logos of the legendary Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant
Finally, at the dawn of the 60s, mechanic Albert Rakhmanov proposed a more ergonomic emblem, which was successfully put into production and is used to this day. This is a circle with a seagull spreading its wings in the center, and below - three already familiar letters. It is this icon that has been fixed for many years and is on all models of UAZ cars of the latest generation.
GAS
On the first models of GAZ cars, famous during the 2nd World War, lorries, there was an oval emblem with three shiny letters, the abbreviation of the Gorky Plant. Since 1950, the symbol of the famous cars "Pobeda" and "Volga" has become a running deer - a drawing of the coat of arms of the region. This emblem was used for a very long time, until the beginning of the 21st century.
In 2015, the logo design was updated. However, the red deer remained. This symbol has acquired the high status of the state trademark of the Russian Federation. Manufacturers plan to produce all new GAZ vehicles (including buses) with this logo.
Derways
The logo of the first private company for the production of cars in the Russian Federation is an oval, in the middle of which is the name of the brand - Derways. The first part of the inscription is the first part of the names of the founders of the enterprise, the Derev brothers, the second part is the English word ways (trans. road).
Derways
The company has been producing cars since 2004 with company emblems on body parts. The brand logo has remained the same to this day.
KAMAZ
On the cabs of the first trucks of the KAMAZ plant, produced in the early 70s, the ZIL logo was used. Then it was replaced by the abbreviated name of the Kama Plant, made in Cyrillic letters.
V
The Vortex car brand was previously owned by TaGaz. Under this brand, Chinese cars Chery Automobile are being produced.
Vortex car brand
The first brand logo is still used - a circle with the Latin letter V in the center.
Logos of liquidated Russian brands
Despite the cessation of production, models of liquidated brands of the Russian automobile industry are often found on the roads of the country. They are easily recognizable by the badges of Russian cars located on the body, some elements of the interior and engine compartments.
"Moskvich"
Starting from the 30s of the 20th century and until the beginning of the XNUMXs, the plant producing Moskvich changed its name many times. But bankruptcy happened - the models of the legendary brand were discontinued. However, until the very end, the emblem of the enterprise, which adorned the car, depicted a tower with a star or a wall of the Moscow Kremlin.
TaGAZ
The Taganrog Automobile Plant, created on the basis of a combine enterprise, began operating in 1997. Daewoo, Hyundai, Citroen cars of the Russian assembly and two models of their own design were produced here. These are class C2 sedans. Own projects - Tagaz C100 and commercial light truck Tagaz Master. The brand logo is an oval with a double triangle inside.
TaGAZ
Marussia Motors
A Russian automobile company that produced premium sports cars from 2007 to 2014. She became famous thanks to the development of the first domestic Formula 1 car. The company logo is made in the form of the letter M pointed downwards in a color scheme that duplicates the Russian tricolor.
