Lipgart. Creator of Victory. Bondarenko V.

The book talks about the life and fate of the great Soviet car designator Andrei Alexandrovich Lipgart (1898–1980). The emka, Zim, GAZ-51 and others created under his leadership-became bright visual symbols of several eras, and the main masterpiece of Lipgart, the M-20 “Victory” is rightfully considered one of the most outstanding cars in the world. The book, created on the documents of the family archive of Lipgarts and the GAZ History Museum, reveals in detail the history of the creation of the epoch -making “Victory”, a lot of attention is paid to the labor feat of the employees of the Gorky Automobile Plant during the Great Patriotic War, the difficult fate of the designer is described in the post -war years. The publication is dedicated to the 125th anniversary of A. A. Lipgart and the 80th anniversary of the start of work on the “victory.”