GAZ was a Russian automobile manufacturer based in Nizhny Novgorod, a city that was known as Gorky between 1932 and 1990. The company was established in 1932 as the Nizhny Novgorod Automobile Plant with technical assistance from the Ford Motor Company, following a 1929 agreement between the Soviet Union and Ford under which the Soviets purchased automobiles and parts while Ford provided technical support to build an integrated automobile plant.…