the legendary car builder, creator and first director of the kamaz plant, lev vasiliev, love for carss passed away. he was from childhood at 10 in the circle of the house of pioneers. he assembled his first motor scooter and got his license at 16 at 22. after returning from the war, he became an engineer receiving finished cars at the factory. kim was called moskvich in those years, and as a result , it was vasiliev who organized the assembly of muscovites as its head. in izhevsk in those years, the brand became known all over the world 65% of the car was exported to europe and the usa, and in the late sixties , demand for soviet trucks began to grow, and then vasiliev was offered to build a completely new plant for the production of higher cargo. so kamaz appeared in naberezhnye chelny, as lev borisovich himself recalled, then everything was done from scratch. it was the only case in the world when cars were designed right away. factory machine tools and all tools down to the drill. the first big cargo. came off the assembly line after 6.5 years. and in total, under the leadership of