At the end of 1944, the production of the ZIS-5 was transferred to The Ural Automotive Plant in Miass, while the Ulyanovsk plant began producing the smaller GAZ-AA in 1947. GAZ-АА (one-and-a half-ton truck) is a lorry of Nizhegorodskiy (in 1932), later Gorky automobile plant with the payload of 1.5 ton (1,500 kg), famous as a one-and-a half-ton truck. Initially it represented a license copy of an American Ford-AA model of the year 1929 sample, but it was afterwards continually modernized.