 Many American engineers and skilled auto workers moved to the Soviet Union to work on the plant and its production lines, which was named "Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod" (GAZ), or Gorki Automotive Plant in 1932.A few American workers stayed on after the plant's completion, and eventually became victims of Stalin's Great Terror, either shot or exiled to Soviet gulags.In 1933, the Soviets completed construction on a production line for the Ford Model-A passenger car, called the "GAZ-A", and a light truck, the "GAZ-AA".