No fewer than three GAZ-67 light military vehicles have been restored at our complex. They were recreated through the efforts of Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Nikolayevich Knyaz, Major Anatoly Viktorovich Orlov, Air Force mechanical technician Guards Captain Igor Eduardovich Margalik, and Warrant Officer Valery Ivanovich Tsaryonok.
We received invaluable assistance with this work from Mikhail Mikhailovich Onoshko, who already owned such a vehicle. Back in the 1970s, he found it in Minsk in the possession of a private owner. The vehicle was dismantled. Mikhail Mikhailovich reassembled it with his own hands. It proved to be a GAZ-67B manufactured in 1953. The owner subsequently sold the vehicle to a commission shop for 1 100 roubles, where Onoshko legally purchased it for 1 300 roubles.
This vehicle served as the model for recreating the three GAZ-67s that we later managed to acquire.
A wartime GAZ-67, preserved almost fully complete, was purchased from an owner in the settlement of Ratomka. Its distinctive feature is the so-called ‘soldered’ radiator grille inherited from the GAZ-64.
Another GAZ-67 was purchased in the village of Zembin. Only the chassis remained, and local craftsmen had used it to build a self-propelled cart. It was later discovered that, after the war, this vehicle had taken part in operations against armed groups in Western Belarus. Its restoration required the greatest amount of work, as the entire body, bonnet and wings had to be recreated from scratch.
The third GAZ-67 was donated to us by Nikolai Lesin, the son of a veteran of the front. The abandoned vehicle had simply taken up space in his garage for many years. Today, we call it the ‘Lesin GAZ’.
In addition to the original GAZ-67s, we also have a replica built on a GAZ-69 chassis. It was made at a military unit and subsequently transferred to us. This hybrid is often hired out or used in reenactments of the Soviet–Afghan War.
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