ZIS-5 was the first Soviet motor vehicle to be exported. With over 1 million ZIS-5 trucks made overall, the USSR had ample opportunity to offer it for sale abroad. A batch of 100 trucks were sold to Turkey in 1934; other quantities were subsequently purchased by Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Spain, China, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Mongolia, and ...

The Soviet ZiS-5 was the second most common Soviet truck in WW2, with more than 500,000 built from 1933 to 1948.

The ZIS-5 (Russian: ЗиС-5) was a 4x2 Soviet truck produced by Moscow ZIS factory from October 1933 on. It was an almost identical copy of the American Autocar Dispatch Model SA truck. In 1931 Moscow Avtomobilnoe Moskovskoe Obshchestvo (AMO, Russian Автомобильное Московское Общество (АМО) —...

The ZIS-5 (Russian: ЗиС-5) was a 4x2 Soviet truck produced by Moscow ZIS factory from 1932 to 1948 (first one made at the end of 1930).

1933 ZIS-5 Truck (the USSR) In 1932 in the design-engineering department of the Plant named after Stalin (Zavod imeny Stalina – ZIS) a modernized variant of the truck AMO-3 was developed, which was in its turn an improved model AMO-2, a license copy of American Autocar 5S.

The truck ZIS-5 (Russian ЗИС-5) is a Soviet truck, which was built from 1933 first in Sawod imeni Stalina. History. In the summer of 1933, the first prototypes of the ZIS-5 were manufactured in the Moscow ZIS factory as successors to the obsolete AMO-2 and AMO-3 trucks.

ZIS-5 takes its origin from american Autocar truck. In 1931 AMO (Automobil Moscow Obshchestvo (Enterprise)) was rebuilt and began to produce trucks under mark AMO-2 (looks similar to ZIS-5). AMO-2 substituted the first soviet truck AMO-F15. Soon AMO-2 was improved, and new models AMO-3 and AMO-4 appeared.

ZIS 5 truck is the famous “three-ton” Soviet truck of the era of the Great Patriotic War. The second most popular truck in the country after 1.5-ton GAZ-AA, earned this fame for its ruggedness and reliability.

ZIS-5. USSR . Soviet truck. Designed in 1933 and adopted by the Red Army in 1935, almost a million were built (most of them between 1941 and 1945), half of them by the ZIS (Zavod imeni Stalina or Stalin’s Factory). It was the Red Army’s second most popular truck after the GAZ-AA.

The Zis-5 served on all fronts and was utilised as a light Artillery Tractor and Infantry carrier with room for up to 25 Troops.