"I can't even say how we worked. I guess faith in our victory helped." Vera Ivanovna Astratyan, an auto electrician at the Second Bus Park in Leningrad
The GAZ-AA, a relatively light truck with a payload capacity of 1.5 tons, which was first produced in 1932, became the road symbol. The truck was popularly known as the "polutorka"
A convoy of gas-powered cars on a road trip Moscow – Omsk – Leningrad – Minsk – Kiev – Moscow, near Srednyaya Rogatka. Leningrad. 1938 (from the collection of the Leningrad Transport History Research Center of Passazhiravtotrans St. Petersburg State Unitary Enterprise)
N. V. Grozmani in the GAZ-AA truck (from the Grozmani family archive)
Fuel transfer in the field. Location of the 446th Separate Motor Transport Battalion for Fuel Delivery to the Marya River area. March 1942 (from the collection of the Leningrad Transport History Research Center of Passazhiravtotrans St. Petersburg State Unitary Enterprise)
Accident on the ice route (from the collection of the Leningrad Transport History Research Center of Passazhiravtotrans St. Petersburg State Unitary Enterprise)