The population of Naberezhnye Chelny had grown 6 times over 6 years of construction of the automobile giant on the river Kama.
By the time the 1,000,000 (one millionth) truck got off the conveyor, it had reached 0.5 million (half a million) people!
The city got its name from the Chelnа River, which flows here into the Kama.
Construction of Kama Automobile Plant Shops and new neighborhoods for its workers went at the same time.
Naberezhnye Chelny was conceived as an ideal socialist city: with wide avenues, straight streets, two-level interchanges.
Kamaz became the shock-work Komsomol construction site, young people from all over the country were coming here.
Heavy-duty Kamaz trucks transported up to 2/3 of USSR cargo.
Among the novelties of Kamaz are electric buses, and in the plans – hydrogen-powered transport.
It is in Naberezhnye Chelny, where the Kamaz Master team, the multiple winners of the Dakar rally, assembles and tests its cars.
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