GAZ-47

The GAZ-47, also called the GT-S, was a Soviet tracked snow and swamp transporter built at the Gorky Automobile Plant from 1954 to 1964. A design team under S. B. Mikhailov began work on it in 1950, drawing on the plant's wartime experience with the T-60 and T-70 light tanks. It had a welded all-metal hull with a front engine compartment, a closed two-door cab and an open cargo platform with a removable awning, and it ran on five rubber-tyred road wheels and a track on each side. A GAZ-11 family petrol engine of 70 horsepower drove it, replaced by the 85 horsepower GAZ-61 engine in the GAZ-47A staff version. With a payload of one tonne and very low ground pressure it served geologists, pipeline builders and polar expeditions, including the 1959 to 1960 Soviet crossing of Antarctica, and it led to the GT-SM, also known as GAZ-71.