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unusual facts about GAZ-12



2011 Open GDF Suez

It was the 19th edition of the Open GDF Suez (formerly known as the Open Gaz de France) and was a Premier tournament on the 2011 WTA Tour.

Beware of the Car

All cars stolen by Detochkin are "Volga"s - the most prestigious Soviet car model of the time.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

The game's non-playable characters (NPCs) feature prominently in the story: Captain Price and his right-hand man, Gaz (voiced by Craig Fairbrass), serve as mentors to Soap.

D-8 Armored Car

Following the BA-27 project, the next projects were undertaken at the Izhorskiye Factory in Kolpino on the basis of newly imported Ford Model A automobiles, and their Soviet copies, the GAZ-A.

Dodge Stratus

The license and production facilities for the second generation Dodge Stratus and Chrysler Sebring sedans were sold in April 2006 to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, owner the GAZ company in Nizhny Novgorod, which builds the Volga automobile.

Gare de Lyon-Jean Macé

The station allows passengers to regional trains from Bourgoin-Jallieu, La Tour-du-Pin, Saint-André-le-Gaz, Vienne, Valencia, Mâcon and Villefranche-sur-Saône, according to their final destination, to use the new station as additional entry point in the center of Lyon.

GAZ

In 2011, Bo Andersson received Automotive Executive of the Year Award at the International Automotive Forum organized by the Adam Smith Institute, and was named a Eurostar of automotive industry in the emerging market category by the Automotive News Europe Magazine for achievements in model range renewal, establishment of cooperation between GAZ Group and leading international automakers, and positive financial results of the company in 2010.

Gaz de France

This plan for a merger between Gaz de France and Suez came under fire from the whole of the political left, which feared the loss of one of the last ways of preventing the price rises experienced over the previous three years, and by the social Gaullists and trade unions.

GAZ-24

Famous clown and actor Yuri Nikulin was permitted to own GAZ-24-02 wagon because he often transported heavy circus equipment.

GAZ-53

The GAZ-53A was also license-built by KTA Madara in Shumen, Bulgaria beginning in 1967.

GAZ-66

In the 2010 game Call of Duty: Black Ops, the GAZ 66 is used as a transport for guards in the level "Vorkuta."

GAZ-M1

The first 20 cars produced were introduced as taxis in Leningrad in 1936, and by the late summer of 1939 there were 20 of the cars being used for taxi work in Minsk.

GAZ-M20 Pobeda

The car was a successful export for the USSR, and the design was licensed to the Polish FSO factory in Warsaw, where it was built as the FSO Warszawa beginning in 1951.

KAG

Kauno Autobusų Gamykla, a factory in Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR that produced buses from 1956 to 1979, most based on the GAZ-51 truck

Kornet-D

Kornet-D is a new ATGM platform based on the GAZ-2975.

KUNG

KUNGs are manufactured for installation on the chassis of GAZ-63, ZIL-157, GAZ-66, ZIL-131, KAMAZ-4310, Ural-375 .

Mohammad Al Gaz

Al Gaz was one of the passengers on the doomed BI Dara voyage, which was bombed in 1961 in Dubai waters.

Moscow International Motor Show

More than 1,000 companies from 34 countries were among the participants, including Bosch, Delphi, Denso, Wynn's, Tenneco, Mahle GmbH, Fenox, KYB, Mann+Hummel, GAZ.

Pashmak

Pashmak originated in the Iranian city of Yazd known for its various traditional Persian sweets such as Baghlava, Qottab, Gaz.

Road to Rouen

Road to Rouen was a difficult album for the band due to personal reasons, including Danny Goffey's tabloid ordeal and the death of Gaz and Rob Coombes' mother.

Shvetsov M-11

It was also used for the up-engined GAZ-98K aerosani winter-used sled in a pusher configuration (as airboats use today), and as the standard powerplant for the similar NKL-26 propeller-driven sledges during the World War II years.

Telegantic Megavision

The programme was presented by Gareth Jones (who had previously hosted Saturday morning TV show Get Fresh under the name Gaz Top) with Dannii Minogue.

Tigr

Tigr, GAZ-2975 "Tigr", a Russian high-mobility multipurpose military vehicle

Tupolev ANT-7

Another 410 aircraft were made during the following three years: 385 at GAZ-22 in Moscow (one of these was the R-6 Limuzin), five at GAZ-31 in Taganrog ( floatplanes and designated KR-6P), and 20 more at GAZ-12 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

Water privatization in Morocco

At the time of the French protectorate of Morocco beginning in 1912 the water supply of Casablanca, Rabat, Salé, Tangiers and Meknes was provided by the French private company Société Marocaine de Distribution d'eau, de gaz et d'électricité (SMD), a subsidiary of Lyonnaise des Eaux, under concession contracts.

ZIL-117

One of the reasons to design the ZIL-117 was a need of a government car of an intermediate rank between ZIL-114 (reserved for highest state and party authorities) and GAZ-13 Chaika, appropriate for example for Politburo member candidates, and also as supporting cars in highest officials' convoys.


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