On March 13, four postage stamps dedicated to KamAZ freight vehicles and passenger transport were put into postal circulation

In August of 1969, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Council of Ministers of the USSR adopted Resolution No. 674 On the Construction of a Complex of Automobile Plants in Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatar ASSR. On September 26, the Minister of Automotive Industry A. Tarasov signed an order naming the new enterprise the Kama Automobile Plant, and already on December 13, work got started on the site of the first KAMAZ facility. The ZIL plant built the first prototype of the ZIL-2E170V wheel tractor with a YAMZ-6E641 210-hp diesel engine. These developments formed the basis for future KAMAZ trucks.

Drop-side 8-ton KAMAZ-5320 rolled off the main assembly line on February 16, 1976. In 1981, the extension facility of the plant was put into operation. It launched the production of a 6-ton army version of the KAMAZ-4310.

In the late 1980s, the company began designing vehicles of the second generation. The updated models were equipped with domestic turbo diesel engines, as well as imported engines and components.

In 1995, the third generation of trucks based on the modernized 6×4 family of vehicles was put in quantity production. Among these models, there were an 11-ton drop-side KAMAZ-53215, a 6.6 cubic meter KAMAZ-55111.02 dump truck, a wheel tractor for the 36-ton KAMAZ-54115 road train, a KAMAZ-53229 long-wheelbase chassis with a lifting capacity of 17 tons, and a KAMAZ-5513 chassis for concrete mixers and interchangeable bodies.

At the end of the 1990s, new dump truck models appeared: a 13-ton KAMAZ-55112 and a 15-ton KAMAZ-65115. At the same time, the plant designed new models that were a further evolution of previous samples. A 13-ton KAMAZ-53228 logging truck and a KAMAZ-65111 dump truck with a lifting capacity of 14 tons were based on a three-axle chassis. In 1996, a KAMAZ-6520 chassis with a lifting capacity of 20-22 tons was introduced, as well as an 19-ton KAMAZ-6522 dump truck with the body of 12 cubic meter.

In 2017, the company designed and launched more than 100 truck and chassis configurations, including five new K-4 generation models – a wheel tractor, dump trucks and chassis. Along with this, the enterprise demonstrated the first prototype of the KAMAZ-54901 K5 wheel tractor.

The company became the first Russian company to put into production the KAMAZ-6282 electric bus, which can be charged from ultra-fast charging stations.

The postage stamps provide images of KamAZ freight vehicles and passenger transport: the first KAMAZ-5320 truck, a combined road vehicle based on the KAMAZ-65115, the KAMAZ-6282 electric bus, and the KAMAZ-54901 wheel tractor.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Naberezhnye Chelny, the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as maxi-cards.


Design Artist: S. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 50 rubles.
Stamp size: 50×37 mm, sheet size: 120×177 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 8 (2×4) stamps.
Quantity: 36 thousand each stamp (18 thousand each sheet).

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