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There is a lot of information about this car: both positive and negative; both objective and non-objective. I would like to dwell on some features associated with this legendary (without exaggeration) car. Work on the creation of prototypes of KAMAZ-5320 cars began in accordance with the decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR of November 16, 1967, as well as orders of the Minister of the Automobile Industry of the USSR of December 29, 1967 and April 3, 1968. Please note that the development of the car began two years before the construction of the KAMAZ factory buildings in Naberezhnye Chelny. This means that KAMAZ was developed according to the principle of “a plant for a car”, and not “a car for a plant”. At that time, the country was actively building and developing, and the construction of an automobile plant in the Tatar ASSR on the banks of the Kama River was part of these grandiose plans. The first serial car produced at this plant was designated 5320