Ural-375

The Ural-375 is a general purpose 4.5 ton 6×6 truck, produced at the Ural Automotive Plant in the Russian SFSR since 1961. The ZIL-157 was the standard Soviet truck until it was replaced by the Ural-375D, which became the standard Soviet truck in 1979. The Ural-375D was soon replaced by the Ural-4320.

The Soviets found the trucks an ideal platform for the BM-21 Grad rocket launcher. Other modes for the Ural-375D included troop carrier, supply carrier, etc.

Varieties

The Ural-375D came in a variety of forms:

Specification

Ural

Ural may refer to:

Ural (ship)

Ural may refer to the following vessels:

Ural (computer)

Ural is a series of mainframe computers built in the former Soviet Union.

History

The Ural was developed at the Electronic Computer Producing Manufacturer of Penza in the Soviet Union and was produced between 1959 and 1964. In total 139 were made. The computer was widely used in the 1960s, mainly in the socialist countries, though some were also exported to Western Europe and Latin America.

When the University of Tartu received a new computer, its old computer, the Ural 1, was moved to a science biased secondary school, the Nõo Reaalgümnaasium. That event took place in 1965 and made the Nõo Reaalgümnaasium the very first secondary school in the Soviet Union to own its very own computer.

Attributes

Models Ural-1 to Ural-4 were based on vacuum tubes (valves), with the hardware being able to perform 12,000 floating-point calculations per second. One word consisted of 40 bits and was able to contain either one numeric value or two instructions. Ferrite core was used as operative memory. A new series (Ural-11, Ural-14, produced between 1964 and 1971) was based on semiconductors.