Dnepr (motorcycle)

Dnepr (Ukrainian: Дніпро Russian: Днепр) is a motorcycle brand produced in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Initial production was of a 98 cc two-stroke model that was confiscated from the German firm Wanderer as reparations.

The plant and equipment needed to make the M-72 (the Soviet derivative of the BMW R71) was transferred from the Gorky Motorcycle Plant (Gorkovskyi Mototsykletnyi Zavod, GMZ located in the city of Gorkiy (Nizhny Novgorod) in 1949.

In 1964, KMZ introduced a military model, the MV-750 with a differential two-wheel drive to the sidecar wheel.

In 1967, to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, KMZ released their first OHV engine in the "Dnepr" K-650.

Armed services models equipped with sidecars had two-wheel drive and as much as 15 cm (5.9 in) of ground clearance.