The Soviet Ural M-72 Motorcycle
The former Soviet defense ministry held a secret meeting,which reaches an agreement to copy the Germans used BMW R71 sidecar. Then the secret underground activities were carried out-Five units were covertly purchased through intermediaries in neutral Sweden and smuggled to Russia. Soviet engineers in Moscow busily dismantled the 5 BMWs. They drew and copied every detail of the BMW design and everything went well. Early in 1941, the first trial sample of the Ural M-72 motorcycle was shown to Stalin, who immediately approved the large scale production of the motorcycles.
The Ural M-72 bacame the Chaotic hero in the large-scale patriotic war. On October 25, 1942, the first M-72s were sent into battle. Over the course of World War II, 9,799 M-72 motorcycles were delivered to the front for reconnaissance detachments and mobile troops.