Monday 9th January 1967
Construction of the Volga Automobile Works began in Togliatti in the Soviet Union. By April of 1970, Zhiguli automobiles (later known as “Lada”) were rolling off the assembly lines. In association with Fiat, the Volga works became (and remains) the largest producer of small European automobiles (400,000 vehicles per year), with over 140 kilometres (90 mi) of production lines.