Accordingly, the GAZ-11-51 was designed from February 1937, a light truck with a more powerful engine and a completely revised cab.

As early as 1936, the Soviet Union had bought a large quantity of these engines in order to replicate them.

Further prototypes were built, incorporating many components from the Studebaker US6, which proved very reliable and durable when in service with the Soviet army.

Models from this early stage can be recognized by the fact that the side windows do not yet have the rounded upper edge that would later be typical.

It was produced on a trial basis from 1948 and in series production from 1952, and by July 1959 17,497 to 17,840 units had been built, depending on the source.

In North Korea, too, a licensed version was created with the Sungri-58, which was produced in the Sungri Motor Plant from 1958 onwards.

[citation needed] Being in production since 1946, in addition to the GAZ-51, was used for many years (boosted to 90 hp by installing two carburetors and equipped with a fluid coupling) on GAZ-12 passenger cars, and also in the BTR-40, BTR-60, and BRDM-1 armoured personal carriers, and it was used in the GAZ-52 truck until 1989.

The GAZ-63 (Russian: ГАЗ-63) is a light truck with four-wheel drive by the Soviet vehicle manufacturer Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod.

The GAZ-63 was used in the Soviet Army as a transport vehicle, but also for special superstructures such as the BM-14 projectile launcher.