The opening ceremony of the automobile factory in Yaroslavl was held on October 20, 1916. A. Lebedev-future of Yaroslavl Motor Plant and Yaroslavl Motor Plant. Crossley 20 /25HP was to become the "Swan A". The illustration was made available by Stanislas Kirize "The type of cars Crossley was nominated as a model by one of the societies that wanted to build a car factory in Russia"-this is a quote from the Russian Brochure of Crossley Motors ' manchester company. The initiator of the production of these vehicles was well-known Russian air tor Vladimir Lebedev. It established " Joint Stock Company of Mechanical Movement and Production V. A. Lebedev's capital is three million roubles. A team of specialists has been sent to England to study the core model Crossley 20 /25HP and its production technology. Lebedev then had aviation production in Petrograd, Penza and Taganrog, where the Lebed aeropplans were produced. The production site in Yaroslavl decided to convert to a new, promising business. The front required cars. In Yaroslavl, it was planned to produce 750 staff cars and 750 sanitary and 1.5 tons of cars each year. "The arts, the slender, the eyes are round, big, and gazing like birds," said Lebedev, one of the newspaper columnists. The picture was taken in Taganrog in 1917. The new case has required the raising of the capital in the amount of 14 million rubles. The big part was supposed to be borrowed money. The British government began to deny loans to entrepreneurs because they asked for dollars to buy equipment in the North American states. In November 1916 alone, a loan of $3 million was secured. Pound sterling. By this time, navigation through the northern ports (the only available war conditions) has been closed. Not waiting for the English model to be developed, Lebedev is establishing in Yaroslavl the manufacture of cabins and bodies for Renault ambulances. These "conversions" will become the first automobile production of the enterprise. A total of 285 booths and 185 bodies were made. The number of Crossley features purchased in the UK is unknown. It is known only that the gates of the company have left the Swan A amonemobile, which was used by Lebedev himself. The Emblems that carried the products of the Yaroslavl plant during their historyAfter the October coup of 1917, the board of the plant escaped to Petrograd, and workers and employees set up a technical commission that considered the company suitable for the repair of cars. Thus, the plant "Swan" has a new name, the first in a series of many-Plant No1 of the Central Office of State Automobile Works (COMPRO). In November 1925, Yaroslavl collected the first batch of trucks J-3. The All-Russian Council of People's Economy has decided to completely transfer the company to the automotive industry. From now on, it will be named the Yamos-Yaroslavl State Automzavod. Since 1936, this is the Yaroslavl Automobile Plant (YAZ). In the history of the company in the 1960's, the history of the enterprise has changed to the production of diesel engines. New name-YAMZ, Yaroslavl Motor Plant. The YAZ trucks were handed over for development by Minsk and Kremenchug automating plants. In 1993, the enterprise was transformed into an open joint stock company Avtodiesel-the largest production association for the production of diesel in our country. In 2001, it became part of RusPromAvto holding and today is a member of the GAZ Group. The first Yaroslavl truck was a horrendous mixture of American White (in the form of car kits) and the Moscow AO-F-15, which was a deep remodel of the Italian Fiat-1.5 ter20 October 1916 (October 7 under the old style) is considered an official birthday of the enterprise.