Soviet engineers, who by 1944 had studied the design of the BMW R-75 and Zündapp KS 750 trophy bikes, were tasked by the RKKA command to develop their own motorcycle with sidecar wheel drive. The "war knight" of the Red Army, M-72, was taken as a basis for this project. According to the test results, the manufactured design of the drive of a sidecar wheel did not prove itself. Although the M-73 showed better cross-country ability than the serial model, there were significant deficiencies that ne

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