To answer your first question: It's a GAZ 21 Volga produced by Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod -- you know, Gorky Automobile Factory -- from 1956 till 1970, when it was replaced by the GAZ 24.

Find your match on the MSN Autos Marketplace A GAZ-24 Volga (ГАЗ-24 Волга) Soviet-made sedan found in Denver, Colorado.© Murilee Martin GAZ 24 Volga sketched by Paul Heaston© Paul Heaston ...

In 1956, the Soviet GAZ plant began producing the 21 Volga model. Although the most recognizable to us is the second generation of this car (1967 - 1985), which is already a thing of the past ...

Russian automaker GAZ (Gorky Automobile Plant) has abandoned plans to euthanize its production of Volga cars, announcing plans to refurbish them as 'historical products.' ...

Appearing in 1956, GAZ-21 was the first car in the Volga series. A black car with special blue salon was presented to Yuri Gagarin after his famous flight into space in 1961.

The GAZ factory built a V-8-powered Volga called the M-23 for the KGB's high-speed pursuits, but the handling was reportedly so scary that even the secret police wouldn't drive them.

That’s what makes this 1966 Gaz Volga 21 on Canadian auto sales site Kijiji so brilliant. It’s beautiful and looks completely stock aside from the wheels, yet under the hood is the V6 out of a ...

Such is the case with the 2008 GAZ Volga Siber, which, for all intents and purposes, is a 2006 Chrysler Sebring sedan. No, this isn't a knock-off of the departed JR-platform; it is the JR platform.; ...

Granted, the vehicle they drove was a far cry from the two mentioned above: the one thing the GAZ Volga was never famous for was its petite size. But that doesn't make their performance any less ...

The car we have here is a genuine head scratcher as we couldn’t figure out exactly what it is; it looks like a wider, two-door version of the classic GAZ Volga 21 with an overhauled interior ...

I was jealous when Jay Ramey street-spotted a GAZ-21 Volga a few years back (sadly, not a red-star-wheel-equipped Glorious Stalinmobile), but now the Down on the Street series presents an example ...