GAZ-55

{{Short description|Soviet-era military ambulance}}

{{Infobox weapon

|name=GAZ-55

| image=GAZ-55 - UGMK Museum Complex in Ekaterinburg 2021.jpg

| image_size = 300

|caption=GAZ-55 in a museum in Yekaterinburg (2021)

|origin=USSR

|type=Military ambulance

|is_vehicle=yes

|is_UK=no

|designer=

|design_date=

|manufacturer=Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod

|unit_cost=

|production_date=1938–1946

|number=9130

|variants=GAZ-AA

|service=Second World War

|length={{convert|5.425|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

|width={{convert|2.040|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

|height={{convert|2.340|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

|weight={{convert|2370| kg|abbr=on}}

|suspension=

|speed={{convert|70| km/h|abbr=on}}

|vehicle_range={{convert|195|km|abbr=on}}

|payload_capacity=4 stretchers and two sitting

|armour=None

|engine=4-cyl, 3285 cc

|engine_power={{convert|50|hp|abbr=on}} at 2800 rpm

|crew=2

}}

The GAZ-55 ({{langx|ru|ГАЗ-55}}) was a Soviet military ambulance developed in the 1930s by Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (GAZ) and was used by the USSR during the Second World War. It was based on the GAZ-AA model.{{Cite web|url=https://www.autocarbase.com/2016/08/gaz.html|title=GAZ}} With only 9,130 models ever produced, the Red Army still relied heavily on standard trucks to transport their wounded. Production of this ambulance reportedly continued until 1946.{{cite web|url=http://www.autogallery.org.ru/gaz55.htm|title=Oldtimer gallery. Trucks. GAZ-55|website=www.autogallery.org.ru}}

One GAZ-55 was captured by a unit of the Luftwaffe.{{cite web|url=http://www.kfzderwehrmacht.de/Homepage_english/Motor_Vehicles/Soviet_Union/GAZ/GAZ_55/gaz_55.html |title=GAZ 55 |publisher=Kfzderwehrmacht.de |date= |accessdate=2020-05-17}}