Start with what the GAZ-M20 Pobeda is: a 4-door sedan fastback/cabriolet with 2.1 , built from 1946 to 1958, in a decade split by war, when civilian production stopped and restarted. What it meant takes a little longer. 241,497 were built.
The background
The GAZ-M20 "Pobeda" (Russian: ГАЗ-М20 Победа, lit. 'Victory') is a passenger car produced in the Soviet Union by GAZ from 1946 until 1958. It was also licensed to the Polish Passenger Automobile Factory and produced there as the FSO Warszawa. Although usually known as the GAZ-M20, an original car's designation at that time was just M-20: M for "Molotovets" (the GAZ factory was named after Vyacheslav Molotov).
The engineering
The engine is 2.1 . On the scales it comes to 1350 kg. Drive goes through a 3-speed manual. The wheelbase is 2700 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the GAZ line-up the GAZ-M20 Pobeda has a clear place: it replaced the GAZ 11-73; it handed the line to the GAZ-21 Volga; the factory was Gorky, Soviet Union. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Porsche 356, the Citroën 2CV, the Chevrolet Bel Air. Its GAZ stablemates include the Chaika and the GAZ 24-24.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the GAZ-M20 Pobeda — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.