History
The Moscow Small Car Plant — MZMA, later AZLK — was one of the oldest Soviet car makers and the home of the Moskvich marque. Its history begins in 1930, when the KIM plant (named after the Communist Youth International) was founded in Moscow. In 1940 it built the first Soviet small car, the KIM-10.
After the Second World War the plant was renamed MZMA and began building a licensed version of the Opel Kadett K38 as the Moskvich-400. The models that followed were developed in-house: the Moskvich-402 (1956), the 407 (1958), the 408 (1964) and the 412 (1967) with a more powerful engine.
The Moskvich-412 became the plant's best-known car: it was widely exported to Western Europe as the Moskvitch and competed in rallies. In 1975 the plant was renamed AZLK, the Lenin Komsomol Automobile Plant. In 1986 it launched the front-wheel-drive Moskvich-2141 Aleko. The collapse of the Soviet Union dealt the plant a fatal blow, and production stopped for good in 2001.
Models of AZLK
9 models in the database, the earliest is 1940
