Moskvitch is a car from Russia. After World War II the Soviet Union brought the entire manufacuting plant for Opel Kadett from Rüsselsheim in Germany with them. A factory called MZMA (Moskovsky Zavod Malolitrazhnykh Avtomobiley) started in in 1947 to manufacture an automobile called Moskvitch 400 based on the Opel. The factory later changed name to AZLK (Avtomobilny Zavod imeni Leninskogo Komsomola).

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