TIZ or Taganrogskiy Instrumentalniy Zavod No. 65 named after Stalin (Таганрогслий инструментальный завод No. 65 им. т. Сталина)) was a motorcycle manufacturer. In 1936 they commenced building the TIZ-AM-600 (Army Motorcycle), a Soviet copy of the BSA

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 1931 Sloper 600. With the German Invasion of the Soviet Union, the plant was transferred east to the town of Tyumen

Tyumen

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 in the Ural region. The new plant was known as TMZ

TMZ (motorcycle)

TMZ or Tyumenskiy Mototsikletniy Zavod , was a motorcycle manufacturer in the Soviet Union. It was created following the German Invasion of the Soviet Union, when TIZ or Taganrogskiy Instrumentalniy Zavod No. 65 named after Stalin TMZ (ТМЗ) or Tyumenskiy Mototsikletniy Zavod (Тюменский...

(ТМЗ) or Tyumenskiy Mototsikletniy Zavod (Тюменский мотоциклетный завод).