Motorcycle M-72 IMZ Ural sidecar 1955 khaki 1:24 DeAgostini Moto Legends USSR #1

New in blister.

The motorcycle legends of the USSR - those motorcycles, that used to ride across the endless expanses of the Soviet republics and now evoke a warm feeling of nostalgia in any connoisseur of motorcycle vintage, are now made in 1:24 scale in excellent detail.

IMZ-Ural (Irbitskiy Mototsikletniy Zavod) - Irbit Motorcycle Factory is a Russian maker of heavy sidecar motorcycles.

In 1940, the Soviet Union acquired the design and production techniques for BMW R71 motorcycles and sidecars. The first M-72 model was finished in 1941. Originally, factories were to be located in Moscow, Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), and Kharkov, but due to the approach of Nazi German troops, the Moscow facilities were moved to Irbit, and the Leningrad and Kharkov facilities to Gorkiy (now called Nizhny Novgorod).