As my Russian is a bit rusty, please take the following information with a generous sprinkle of sodium chloride. The general gist is that the Soviet people's committee for the economy issued an order in 1931 that the Izhevsk motorcycle manufacturing plant should be commissioned, with the potential to manufacture 120,000 machines per year.
This undertaking was no doubt inspired by the efforts of one Pyotr Mozharov, an automotive designer at the Izhevsk armament plant. Mozharov headed up the'moto department’ and put together several motorcycle prototypes in the late 1920s. The IZH1 of
