Zil AMO-F-15
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The AMO-F-15 is an early Soviet light truck, built from 1924 to 1931 at the AMO plant in Moscow, the forerunner of the later ZiL. It is based on the Italian Fiat 15 Ter. The register lists an inline four-cylinder engine of 4.4 litres; the source gives 4,396 cm³ and 35 hp more precisely. The payload was 1,500 kg.
The vehicle is 5,050 mm long, 1,760 mm wide and 2,250 mm high, with a wheelbase of 3,070 mm. Drive goes to the rear axle through a four-speed manual gearbox. With so little power, low weight and simple servicing mattered more than speed.
Besides the platform truck, buses, fire engines, ambulances and armoured variants were built. More than 6,000 units were made in total, 3,227 of them in 1930 alone. The AMO-2 followed from 1930, and production ended in October 1931 with the arrival of the AMO-3.
ZIL – other models: the collective page of Soviet trucks outside the named ranges, from the pre-war AMO-F-15 through the ZIL-130 to the all-wheel-drive military truck ZIL-131
This page gathers trucks from ZIL, the Moscow plant Zavod imeni Likhachova, which until its renaming in 1956 after the fall of the Stalin cult traded as ZIS (Zavod imeni Stalina) and before that, founded as AMO, built the AMO-F-15 in 1924, the first series-built Soviet truck. Among the best-known models are the ZIL-130, the most-built Soviet truck from 1964 to 1994, and the ZIL-131, an all-wheel-drive 6x6 military truck. The model names also include Finnish registration terms: "Avolavakuorma-auto (BA)" denotes a flatbed truck, "Umpikorinen (BB)" a truck with an enclosed box body.
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The register lists 22 versions with 14.7 to 110 kW from six- to eight-cylinders of 5,550 to 7,800 cm³, unladen weights from 4,000 to 8,200 kg, gross weights from 10,100 to 12,000 kg, lengths from 5,050 to 8,150 mm, widths from 1,760 to 2,550 mm and heights from 2,180 to 2,480 mm.
ZIL trucks shaped road freight in the Soviet Union and its successor states for decades and were exported in large numbers to Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia; the ZIL-131 remained in service with numerous armies long after the end of the Soviet Union.
On these vehicles, the condition of frame and load bed, corrosion on wings and cab, the condition of clutch, gearbox and, on the all-wheel-drive models, the transfer case count, along with the availability of spare parts, today mostly through specialist Eastern European parts trade.
Sources: SpecCodex register, model data: Zil Pozostale modele, Zulassungsdaten Traficom (Finnland)
Technical data
Engine
| Engine | R4 4, 4 lcorrect |
|---|
Dimensions and weights
| Length | 5,050 mmcorrect |
|---|---|
| Width | 1,760 mmcorrect |
| Height | 2,250 mmcorrect |
| Wheelbase | 3,070 mmcorrect |
Drivetrain and chassis
| Drive | tylnycorrect |
|---|---|
| Gearbox | 4-speed manual gearboxcorrect |
Frequently asked questions
What are the dimensions of the Zil AMO-F-15?
5,050 mm × 1,760 mm × 2,250 mm.
What to check before buying
- Check the hour meter against the service records — a replaced instrument is the most common gap.
- Compare the data plate and chassis number with the papers.
- Shift the gearbox cold and warm — jumps only show up at temperature.
- Ask about parts availability for this build year — the running costs hang on it.
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This page carries 7 individual figures for this model. They come from 4 recorded sources; every figure can be traced there. What we cannot document is not here — we leave gaps open rather than estimate them.
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Other models in this series
00131H
00131H-6X6/3350+1250
131
131 KO
375 A
BA 5960 cm³
Umpikorinen (BB) 2ov 5550cm3
ZIL131
ZiS-150
ZiŁ-130
ZiŁ-164
Sources: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) (retrieved October 2026) · Values adopted and presented in our own form; changes from the source are possible. · How we check the data
Truck in 3D section
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