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GAZ-51 is a Soviet medium-tonnage truck with a carrying capacity of 2.5 tons; the most common truck model of the 1950s-1970s. The first prototypes with the index GAZ-51[1] were created before the Great Patriotic War, serial production began in 1946. In 1955, the modernized GAZ-51A was mastered, produced until 1975. 3,481,033 units of all modifications were produced. According to Soviet documentation, the GAZ-51 was produced in Poland at the FSC plant (Lublin) as the Lublin-51 (Polish: GAZ Lublin-51), in North Korea (Tokchon) as the Sungri-58 (Pobeda-58), and in China (Nanjing) in a slightly modified form as the Yuejin NJ130.