Folk puditions of Soviet and Russian cars. Forgotten words: nicknames of domestic cars. VAZ, UAZ, AZLK & NBSP "Leninet" VS. "Katyusha"
All cars have their own serial numbers, practically everyone without exception. But not everyone has official names. True, it often happens that these names do not take root and folk nicknames come into battle. It concerns not only foreign cars, but also domestic.
The appearance of nicknames from a particular car model is the usual thing, most often this happens just because of the lack of a name as such. But not rare cases and inverse.
And it would be a mistake to believe that the nicknames give only Soviet models, although the USSR auto accumulations often had problems - cars were produced exclusively with the number of the series and index.
So, for example, in Germany, the BMW Isetta was osetta (BMW iSetta) were called "Coffin-mobile". In general, there were a lot of folk names from this baby. Her Soviet analogue - MOTOKOLOCK SMZ SZA was always remembered as "Morgunovka" (from the "Adventures of Shurika"), and its sequence of SMZ Szdz - "Disabled".
And judging by these cars, it can be really concluded that the nicknames receive models are very characteristic or even funny. And in the USSR there were enough such cars:
AZLK and IZH
Cars of Moskvich brand were produced at two factories - AZLK (earlier - misma) and Izhmash. Many nicknames are given to cars on consonant with the name of the brand or model, and "Moskvich" - a bright example: the so-called "fossil" (i.e. "Late" recently Release) "Muscovites" called "Masquerade", "Makan" and even "Mustang" - although it is necessary to make a reservation that the modern term "Pshini" itself is more used in relation to "Izham".
The oldest, the most first Muscovites, -400 and -401, wore the popular name "Hottabych", and launched many years later, the Moskvich-412 sedan sometimes called "Barsik". But especially fantasy motorists played out just on the era of the "Muscovites" - Hatchback AZLK-2141 and its all sorts of hatchers were just a storehouse for amateur neminiga.
The basic model, the actual AZLK 2141 Svyatogor, was awarded the titles of "Cosmic" (on the consonance with Moskvich) and "Azylk". Export option with the official name of Aleco - "Kale" and "Banderlog". In addition to the engine VAZ-2106, a 2-liter Renault motor was put on Svyatogor, and such a modification was called "Renogor". And the elongated version of AZLK 2141 Prince Vladimir called "Long" and "Vovrov-Carrot". So you, like and the official name from the model there is, and still stick to her nicknames ... All because they are much more accurate.
Izhevsk history "Moskvich" is a little simpler, but also deserves attention. In Izhevsk, the commercial versions of the 408s and 412 were collected, and it was here that the "pool" of the national names of this area was formed: IL-2715 - called commonly used nicknames of heel and "Pie", but also less common "Cheburashka", "Margarine" and, again, "Masquerade", as well as a very mysterious - "box on the top five. Independent, not based on the Products of AZLK, the IL Orbit model, released in 1990, was nicknamed new way - "Orbit." By the way, the name of the orbit did not fit because the official name Orbit registered the Italian ItalDesign, and Hatbchek from Udmurtia eventually became one.
GAS
Sometimes it is possible to hear that the Volga and Gazelles are often called "deer" - in view of the fact that this animal decorates the emblem of gas - but the nicknames of Gazovsky cars began to appear long before the appearance of this deer. The first and most famous nickname is a gas-aa truck, "half a gun", because the carrying capacity was one and a half tons. Then, the Jeep GAZ-69 was much later, which, because of the army extremely rigid suspension, became a "goat", and the GAZ-66 truck-66 truck, nicknamed "Shishigoya", which essentially means the same as "Kimor", however In this case, there was a simple consonance with "sixty-six".
The history of passenger cars of Gaza also abounded by nicknames. So, it seems to be an extremely appropriate official name of GAZ-20 victory over time, adds folk "Turtle". The first Volga, GAZ-21, was also called not only by name, but also on nicknamed - "Tank in Frace".
GAZ-24, the legendary second Volga, entered the story as "barge" and "Salaand", because on the go was soft, as if sailed on the highway, but he was sworn in turns. Well, later its incarnation, the VAZ-3110 received an even less flattering nickname "Tanya-Pull".
VAZ, Lada
Volzhsky products car factory From the folk crystors got, perhaps, the most - here, of course, and the Togola (Togliatti automotive), and the "Devocoid" with the "Welsh", and "Brick", and even "horror" against the Zhiguli. It is all the more or less common names for "vases", but if you understand it in detail ... It all started with the VAZ-2101, which in Moscow immediately called the "canned bank" - for a thinner compared to Muscovites and Volga Metal Body. In the homeland, in Tolyatti, where the VAZ-2101 was produced and modernized, her name was "a single" or "one-year".
But now the nickname "Kopeik" appeared only at the very end of the 20th century, as well as its derivatives: "Spear" and "Coppendos". It is also known that truckers are called this car "Capellan" - here also guess the consonance with the "penny", but in general it is ... a priest in the army.
It is clear that the vazov machines are characterized by nicknames formed from numeral (at the ordinal number of the model), but in addition to simple "twice", "Trejc" ("Troika") and others, there are more advanced variations on the same "numerical" topic. VAZ-2106, for example, besides the "six" nicknames "Shah", "Shakhtar", "Shakal", "Shames" and "Shaitan". VAZ-2105 - "Piglet" and "Petrik". And VAZ-2107 - "Semyon" and "Semaphor".
According to the same scheme, the nicknames of VAZ-2114 ("four") and VAZ-2115 are formed ("Fur") and the VAZ-2115, but in general the main nickname of Samara and Samara-2 families - it's still "chisel ": For the characteristic form of the body, the VAZ-2108 and VAZ-2109 immediately after their market entry. Next to all the first VAZ front-receptionists stuck not too mutibly nickname "Rattle", but the Sedan VAZ-21099 acquired his own - "suitcase" and "Duplet".
But the record holder in the number of nicknames among Vaza models is, of course, VAZ-1111 Oka: "Cow", "Okun", "Funny Stool", "Capsule of Death" (remember "Coffin-Mobile" IZETTA?), "Shrimp" , "Box", "Bigner", "Vykidash", "Bag on wheels", "Cabin from Kamaz", "Keychain from Belaz", as well as the legendary "20 minutes of shame - and in the country." Here it is, folk love!
Almost as much as very much loved in the people and VAZ-2110: in addition to neutral "Chirik", "Chervonets" and "Matryushka" had the walking station "Pregnant Antilope" and "Promponal". These nicknames with some modifications inherited and wagon VAZ-2111 - his name was "pregnant cow", "Slot Soap" and "slippery brick". Against this background, the nickname of the VAZ-2112 - "Cucumber" - it looks almost as the official name of the model.
In the case of minivan VAZ-2120, the vazovtsy decided to stop the vicious practice to correct cars exclusively with numbers and gave the model name their own - "Hope". In those years, AvtoVAZ painfully survived in primitive capitalism, so the name was in the subject. But it was not there, it was, in the people, it was transformed into "clothes", "hopeless" and "Konstantinovna" - and there was already double headlights, as if resembling points N.K. Krupskaya.
In general, with the return of the practice of the official neminag of models of the Volga Automobile Plant, the neiming of the unofficial will not go anywhere. For example, Kalina is cliche, "gooseberry", "hamster", "horse" and sorry, "fecale", and the name of Hatback Lada Xray. The network instantly transformed into a much more phonetically Russian "Kree". In this background, Niva looks interesting - she remains "Niva", and nothing more, even after many years after it has ceased to be officially called.
Each car has its official name. However, very often it happens that another one is sticking to the car with time, or even several new names. These names come from the people, from the motorists themselves who certainly know how to correctly call the car so that the whole essence of the car is passed in one word. In this review, the story about 10 cars, the names that Soviet drivers were given.
1. IL-2715 on the nickname "Heel"
Car "Moskvich" from the Izhevsk plant. By the way, it was in Izhevsk who collected commercial models of 408 and 412 "Muscovites". As for the IL-2715 car, he wore a lot of names, including the "Pie", "Cheburashka", "Margarine" and even "Masquerade". Another name was "box on the top", but it was subsequently almost forgotten.
2. IZH-2126 by nicknamed "Orbit"
Independent car Izhevsk Plant, which was designed and released into production, without using AZLK technologies. The car was lowered from the conveyor in 1990. In the people, the car quickly called the name to the new way - "orbit".
3. GAZ-24 according to the nickname "COMPANY"
The car is famous, literally the second "Volga"! The car received a bunch of various names, including: "Brick", "Tank", "Lando", "Barzha" and "Salaland". The last names of the car, by the way, received for the softness of the ride, as literally dust on the highway, but at the same time he was laughing and leaked on the turns. However, the late reincarnation of the machine - GAZ-3110 and received an unenviable nickname "Tanya-Pokoli".
4. KAMAZ on the nicknamed "Tatar"
Make these wonderful cars at the Kamsky Automobile Plant, from which the name. Much of these trucks of high passability were produced for needs soviet army. The first batch of cars was released in January 1981. The name "Tatar" stuck because the plant is located in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny, and this is one of the largest cities in Tatarstan.
5. VAZ-2106 on nicknamed "Six"
It is not difficult to guess that most often the names of the vases took place from the model number. There are also very busy nicknames tied to the topic of numeral. For example, model 2106 also called "Shah", "Shakal", "Shakhtar", "Shaitan".
6. VAZ-1111 Oka according to the nicknamed "Cabin from KamAZ"
The record holder in the number of funny nicknames among VAZ cars. As he was not called. Here we have such names as: "Cowings", "Okun", "Fucking Stool", "Capsule of Death", "Shrimp", "Box", "Birdhouse", "Writing", "Wheel Bag", "Keychain From Belaz, "as well as the most popular -" 20 minutes of shame and you are at the cottage. " Immediately visible folk love and recognition! The car was produced since 1987.
7. VAZ-2110 on the nickname "Chervonets"
Not a Soviet car, but, nevertheless, which deserves attention. Almost also in the people loved this model of the car VAZ. The names were different. Starting stands with neutral: "Chirik", "Chervonets", "Matryoshka". There were also less pleasant names: "Prompt" and "Pregnant Antilope". It's funny that the same nicknames (let and with some modifications) inherited a descendant of a car - VAZ-2111, which also called "slippery brick."
8. ZAZ-968 nicknamed "Poll"
Soviet car Small class of the first group. Produced at the Zaporizhia Automobile Plant from 1971 to 1994. The called the car is completely different. There was an offensive name "constipation", and with him gentle "round" and "Cheburashka". Each model of "Zaporozhets" received its name, for example ZAZ-965 called "humpback", ZAZ-966 - "eared", and ZAZ-968 - "Soapny".
9. LUAZ-969 on nicknamed "Lunohod"
The unusual name car received for his unusual design and increased patency. The model has been produced since 1966. In the people, the car was also dubbed as "Volynyakha", "Volyanka", "Volyn's combat car", "Fantomas", "Chicken" and "Jewish armored personnel."
10. RAF-22038 on the nicknamed "Rafik"
The Soviet minibus, which was produced since 1976, as well as 1997. Widely used as a service transport. To oust "Rafa" from the market was able only to the many later "Gazelles".
In continuation of the topic, immediately, causing solid disappointment from motorists.
If in the past all opel models received names in honor of military ranks, then names modern models End on "-A": Astra, Corsa, Meriva, Zafira.
In addition, any nouns or adjective can be served as the name for the car. Moreover, this actually existing word should be "ideologically close" cars, and not just beautiful. For example, the name of the Forda model Fiesta (Spanish - "fun, joy") hints at that joy that the driver can experience when driving the car. The names of the models of the SMART - Fortwo and Forfour brand are practical. They indicate how many people are calculated by the model - "for two" and "for four".
Inventing the name for "Impuza", Subaru played on the consonance of the words Impreza with the English Impressed ("impressed"). This word, according to the development of developers, you can characterize the driver, who first sat behind the wheel of the subaru car. And Opel Agila (urban small trap was sold under this title) - this is a little paraphrassed English word "Agile" - "smart, favorable".
Leninet VS. "Katyusha"
In the USSR, during the development of the first car of the Volga Automobile Plant VAZ 2101, the existing technologies of the "neminiga" are unlikely to guess. Then the decisive factor for the choice of titles was purely ideological. Despite this, "penny" managed to avoid a politicized name. It is not enough to come up with her name entrusted to the people.
In August 1968, a competition for the "national name" of the new Soviet car was announced in the press. As a result, about 30 thousand letters with suggestions came to the Volga Automobile Place, from which about a hundred "successful" was chosen. Among them were "Leninet", "Volzhanka", "Katyusha", "Aurora", "Vil" (abbreviated on behalf of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin). However, the winner was the word "Zhiguli".
"Zhiguli" in the Samara region are called mountains on the right bank of the Volga, near which Togliatti is located - the birthplace of the modern AvtoVAZ. Most researchers believe that Toponym "Zhiguli" happened from the Turkic "Dzhiugli" - "Hard-free, Manzova". The mountains were obtained from the burlars who lived in a given area. But hard leadership Soviet Union In the detail of the origin of the word "Zhiguli", when did his choice, - apparently, it simply seemed to them quite harmful.
True, the inhabitants of the majority of European countries would hardly agree with this, where the word "Zhiguli" was consonant with a somewhat offensive word "Gigolo". Therefore, for the export of cars to Europe "Vaza" it took urgently to invent more "decent" name. So appeared Lada.
The history of the appearance of this name is modern workers "AvtoVAZ" ... do not remember. One of possible options: The name "Lada" appeared from the consonant word "Rye" - this image was used on the nameplates of cars of the Volga Auto Plant since 1970. In any case, the name Lada turned out to be so successful that in the future, not only export models began to be called, but all other cars of the Volga Automobile Plant.
In addition to the official name "Zhiguli", the VAZ-2101 model had a folk name - "Kopeika".
Following after the "Zhiguli" (the last representative of this family was the "VAZ-2107" seven) was the line of the "Satellite" models. The first car, released in 1984 under the same name, is the "eight", VAZ-2108. The name of the car was to be reminded both residents of the Soviet Union, and foreign countries that the USSR is the main cosmic power. However, it turned out that the word "satellite" was not very famous abroad. In addition, it turned out to be difficult to pronounce foreigners.
As a result, for exporting the name was changed to another "frantic" geographical name - "Samara". Someone says that this word was chosen in honor of the river of the same name flowing in the region, and someone recalls that until 1935 was called and now the city of Kuibyshev is the administrative center of the region, in which AvtoVAZ is located.
Another topographical name received a low-fat VAZ 1111 - "Oka". The name was invented not at the Volga Auto Plant, and at its subsidiary - Serpukhov Automobile Plant (Seaz), where this car was produced. Thus, Seaz tried to hold a parallel: "AvtoVAZ" is a Volga, and Seaz is his influx, an eye. About such an association, however, they have already forgotten, but the "river" name remains on hearing even after the end of the production of a small car.
Working out the name for the first SUV, the plant management faced a problem: a car that was intended, first of all, for workers agricultureLiving in difficult areas, they wanted to call "Niva". However, such a name was already at the Combine, produced in Rostov-on-Don on Rosselmash. Nevertheless, the leadership of the Rostov Plant did not object to the use of Niva AvtoVAZ. By the way, the car (though, the brand Niva now belongs to the GM concern), and the combine is still produced.
On science
Currently, AvtoVAZ chooses names for new models in the same way as other modern producers - "on science". As we were told in the press service of AvtoVAZ, exactly what the names of Kalina and Priora appeared. Both were selected from the list of 10-15 other names according to the results of tests on consumers. However, the final decision was taken by the management of the plant.
The origin of the name Kalina has already managed to draw legends, one of them came up with the factory workers themselves. According to her, the car received its name through red color, in which the prototype of the model was presented. Although, in fact, he was a lilac.
And the first challenger on the title of the most famous and visited (in the photo above):
VAZ 2101 (penny, spear, pelvis) - this car Does not need a view, because anyone learns him!
IL-2715 (Heel, Chizhik, Pie) - A small van production of the Izhevsk Automobile Plant. Externally resembles a heel due to its booth.
AZLK 2141 (Cosmich) - This nickname turned out as a consonant name "Moskvich".
VAZ-2108 and VAZ-2109 (chisel) - their "acute" body shape is very similar to the appropriate tool.
GAZ AA (half-one) - created in the image and likeness of the American Ford AA, but still a bit recycled and adapted under russian conditions. Actively used during the war years.
ZIS-5 (Zakhar, Zakhar Ivanovich, Three Tonka) - Freight carAlso actively helped in war.
SMZ-ZZA (Morgunovka) and SMZ-SDP (disabled) - Domestic small-grained cars, mostly issued to disabled. Hence the name. A disabled scene is well remembered from the film "Operation S".
VAZ-1111 Oka (death capsule, mad stool, shrimp, cigarette, birdhouse) - folk car "20 minutes of shame, and you are at the cottage!". 
ZAZ-965 (humpbed) - Zaporozhets so began to call thanks to his dough body in the back, reminiscent of hump.
ZAZ-968 Zaporozhets (constipation, Cheburashka) - Soviet car small class. He received his first nickname in a reduction from the name. And the second nickname closed thanks to him appearance - The headlights resemble eyes, and the air intakes are the ears of Cheburashka.
LUAZ - 969 Volyn (lunokhod, boil, chick) - got his nickname because of the external similarity with the machine for studying the moon, as well as on the first two letters in the title.
GAZ-66 (bump, ball) - This all-wheel drive truck has become called because of the naming of his model, in which there are two six.
GAZ-67 and GAZ-67B (Ivanushka, Ivan VILLIS, Kozlik) - SUV of the Soviet Army, who participated in the Second World War.
GAZ-M1 (Funks, Emka, Emmochka) - Soviet a car, produced in the Gorky Auto Plant. Produced 62888 pieces.
UAZ-452 (Bukaka, Tablet, Baton) - An amazing cargo off-road car, produced to this day! Got a nickname "Buanka" for his similarity with a bun. And also, unofficially, because it often fleece.
Modification for doctors began to be called a tablet or pills. Modification with an open body began to be called a holfast for a large cabin. 
UAZ-469 (Kozlik, goat, Bobik) - secular and Russian SUVs produced at the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant from 1972 to 2003. They received their nickname to the inheritance from GAZ-69 and GAZ-69A. Externally, the UAZ is similar in front to the face of the dogs-korans, from here and nickname.
RAF - 22038 (Rafik) - Minibus of Latvian production.
Why are the cars given nicknames? The easiest answer is that the model does not have a "name", instead only the index numbers. Agree, to pronounce every time the VAZ-21013 or GAZ-31105 is not entirely convenient. However, the reason is not always the reason only in a comprehensive name of the machine. Some "nicknames" were glued for any characteristic features or features.
And let's start with AvtoVAZ, the products of which got it hardly no most. The enterprise itself is in the people of the pelvis, because by the strict logic of Soviet designations, he had to become a Togliatti automotive factory. But the intact of this abbreviation understood immediately, and the plant became Volzhsky. But people will not be deceive, and in accordance with the level of quality of the car, the "pelvis" became the "pelvis".
"Zhiguli" was called "bricks" for the characteristic form, "buckets" (all for the same quality of manufacture) and even "horror". Not everyone knows that they were and " Tin can"(Or just" canned "). This was just that I just called the VAZ-2101 for thin compared to the "Volga" and "Muscovites" Metal. And all famous name "Kopeika" appeared not immediately, only at the end of the XX century.
Nicknames for cars of the Volga automotive most often formed from the digits of the index. Some lucky, and their folk names were not offensive. The fifth model drivers affectionately called "Pyatachk" and "Petrik", the seventh - "Semen" and "Semaphore". But the VAZ-2106 Folk Creative swept on the full program: "Shah", "Shaitan", "Shakal", "Miner" ... a little pleasant in such epithets.
Immediately after entering the hatchback market, 2108 and 2109 for their characteristic front, the nickname "Chisel" was obtained. It also got "Samaras" with an already renewed appearance, including "Samara-2". Well, in general, the front-wheel drivers of the Vase nicked "rattles": the plastic turned out to be hurt on the background of "Zhiguli"! But the VAZ-21099 sedan was sometimes honored with a "solid" nickname "suitcase".
Did not pay attention to our fellow citizens and 2110. Educated from digital Designation "Chirik" and "Chervonetse" used much more rare epithets on the design of the sedan's design: "Promotel", "Matryoshka" and "Pregnant Antilope" ... they partially inherited the wagon 2111, which was called the "sideline of soap" and "pregnant cow".
But most of all the inhabitants of our country loved the city crumbus "OKU", VAZ-1111. She got more than all: "Okun", "cigarette", "mad stool", "Bigner", "Bag on wheels", "shrimp", "Capsule of death", "Camaz", "Kama". And, by the way, the expression has become a winged expression "20 minutes of shame, and I initially belonged to this Soviet hatchback.
When, in the late 1990s, the Minivan on the chassis "Niva" got the name "Nadezhda", he was quickly painted "hopeless". It was for that: the car looked custodially, the quality of manufacture was also appeared. Other his folk names are "Clothing" and "Konstantinovna" (hunt for hope Konstantinovna Krupskaya).
Against this background, except that Niva stands out. Russian motorists have imbued with sincere respect, because even after decades and shifts official nameShe was and remains only "Niva".
If cars that have come down from the conveyor of the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant and got less popular creativity, then only because of the smaller number of models. The history of the enterprise began with the assembly of GAZ-69, so it is not surprising that the first independent model of the enterprise - UAZ-469 - mocked the nickname "goat", or a gentle "goat". This is not a desire to insult, but only the statement of the fact: both cars did not differ in the smoothness of the course and desperately "goats". Also name and their direct descendant, which is now officially called foreign ones - UAZ Hunter.. And how I got the police version of the car! "Bobik", "boxes", "garbage truck". Some also called the car to the Ukrainian manner: "Cementing".
No less legendary model Plant - UAZ-452. For rounded molds, the car was immediately called "loaf" and "bun", and the "ambulance" version was called "Tablet" or "Sanitary". The truck with the onboard platform was darting "Golovascue". And now these "clicks" are hardly used in the official press, which is much more convenient for long and tangled digital indexes. And most importantly, it is immediately clear what we are talking about.
The flagship SUV Patriot received nicknames "Patrika" and "Patrick".
Early models of AZLK, 400 and 401, received the nickname "Hottabych", the 412th called "Barsik", all "Muscovites" as a whole - "Maskaradami", but over the Hatchback AZLK-2141, which appeared in the 1980s, was mocked by Glory. Most often, he was a "cosmic" or "azlik", which is consonant with the official name. The export version of "Aleko" was quickly transformed into the "cripp", the modification with the Renault engine became Renogor (by analogy with the official "Svyatogor"), and the elongated execution of "Prince Vladimir" was instantly called the "long" and "forever-carrot".
