Several enterprises were engaged in the production of motorcycles in the USSR at once. To this we can add Czechoslovak and Hungarian technology. So there was no shortage of such transport in the Soviet country. ATVs are a completely different matter. Despite the fact that they came up with a local name - all-terrain vehicles, their mass production did not come. Although research in this direction was carried out before the war. Perhaps such a technique exuded some kind of bourgeois excess. Or maybe they just decided: there are motorcycles and there are snowmobiles. And - stop pampering Soviet citizens, otherwise they will not want to build communism.
One way or another, but the first serious development of an all-terrain vehicle was taken up only in the second half of the 80s. It was a time of change and breaking old stereotypes. In general, the favorable situation allowed specialists from the Kharkov plant named after Malyshev to get down to business. The enterprise was very serious (it designed and produced tanks), so there was no shortage of qualified engineers. This situation allowed me to boldly take on a new project. The resulting ZIM-350 was equipped with a 2-cylinder "Izhevsk" engine. The design of the device allowed him to move across mixed terrain, with elements of flooded soil or forests. You can learn more about how it looked and worked from the video from the Retro Moto 58 channel.
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