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Leuze-en-Hainaut (Belgium), October 31st 2019As Billie-Bonce noted in my picture of the Trabant 601S, the Trabi never gained access to the Soviet market - in fact, of the vehicle production of the Eastern Bloc, just one vehicle managed to do so: the legendary Jawa 350!
The Jawa 350 was designed as early as 1934 in Czechoslovakia, and has since (more or less) enjoyed an uninterrupted production. Originally designed with a four-stroke single-cylinder engine in 1934, the Jawa 350 was changed to a two-cylinder two-stroke engine in 1948. Before the Soviet Bloc encountered the Japanese motorcycles of the 1970s, the Jawa 350 dominated the market. Even today it remains available, both in a technically virtually unchanged two-stroke two-cylinder version, as well as in a EURO-4 compliant four-stroke single-cylinder version.
This 1972 Jawa 350/360 Automatic was on display among various other vehicles of the former Soviet Bloc.
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To be honest, not only Jawa gained access to the Soviet market. Speaking of motorcycles, Hungarian Pannonia pannonia.rulli.ee/yldist_en.ht… was a well-known model, and it was exported to the USSR (as the linked article states, 300,000 of 1 million produced Pannonias were exported to the USSR). Also, I remember Czech ČZ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Ces… - their 250cc and 350cc motorcycles, and their famous scooter Čezeta designed in the 1950-s that was in production till the 1970-s.
The imported cars really were rare, though Polish and especially Czech cars were well-known (and in the late 1970s, Romanian Dacia as well). But I doubt any of those were imported after 1970. I can remember only Škoda emergency ambulance and light van from the early 1960-s (when I was a really little boy). Now I identified them as Škoda 1201 upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…
A totally different situation was with trucks. There were many imported trucks - light and heavy ones - in the 1960-s. and in the 1970-s, and in the 1980-s. Below are just some of those that I could see virtually every day:
Skoda 706RT i6.imageban.ru/out/2018/11/03/…
Tatra T138/T148 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_14…
Tatra T815 ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_T8…
Avia A20/A30 upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…
IFA W50 upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…
And, of course, if we speak about vehicles, we must mention buses, trolleybuses, and trams.
The situation was different in different cities, but all in all, there were lots of Czech trams and trolleybuses (say, in Kyiv, they dominated while in Moscow they were rare).
And, of course, various models of Hungarian Ikarus buses - also dominated in many cities
Ikarus 55 upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…
it also was known as Ikarus Lux wikimapia.org/33465448/Ikarus-… (note the characteristic headlamp over the windscreen 
Ikarus 180 upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…
Ikarus 250/255/256 ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikarus#/…
Ikarus 260 ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikarus_2…
Ikarus 280 ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikarus_2…
By the way, all those buses are in their traditional livery as they were in the USSR
Maybe if I spent more time I would recall more
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... One of my first motor-bikes!
... Jawa 350 was for that time a good and solid machine! ... 
... The East-German MZ was very good too! ... 
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Je ne suis pas tout à fait sûr, malheureusement, la moto n'avait pas de plaque d'affichage et la liste du musée ne semble pas en énumérer. Et pour une raison inconnue, il semble que j'ai oublié de prendre une photo de cette moto. J'étais sûr d'en avoir pris un, mais je ne l'ai pas fait. Désolée.
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That motorcycle really looks like Ural. However, it's very hard to distinguish between Ural motorcycles made in Irbit, Russia, and Dnepr MT-9, MT-10 made in Kyiv, Ukraine. Both models originate from Soviet motorcycle M-72, a copy of BMW R71, which was produced at a number of plants in the USSR since 1941 (Yes, unexpectedly!) till 1960. The developments from the original design had their differences but the overall image remained more or less the same. Unfortunately, the result is quite different. While the mentioned MT-9 and MT-10 were developed in 1970-s, I know for sure that the quality of the Kyiv-made motorcycles was terrible (as the quality of most of the Soviet goods of that time), and it was gradually becoming worse and worse. However, Ural motorcycles made their name and were quite successful.
Today, the Kyiv motorcycle plant is no more. They stopped production of new motorcycles in 2008, stopped production of spare parts in 2012, and ceased to exist in 2018. Unlike it, the Ural motorcycles are well known in the world. Ridiculously, only 3% of their production is sold in Russia, while 97% goes worldwide, including the USA. Who could imagine?
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