Odds were you couldn't afford one, but were given one if you were a factory director or something - being given one with a high enough government job was the most common way of getting into one. They were taxis, they were government limos and they were private cars (if you could afford one). If you look at photos of the main streets of Moscow from the '60s, up to a ridiculous 80 percent of the cars you'll see in the photos are GAZ 21s. Offered as a sedan and a (much rarer) station wagon, the GAZ 21 Volga was effectively the Ford Crown Vic of the USSR of the 1950s and 1960s.
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To answer your second question: The 1956 Ford Mainline is the American car this resembles the most, and was roughly patterned after, even adopting a similar look for its Series I grille. This one is a Series III car, so it was produced sometime between 19. The 21 was produced in three distinct series, or facelifts, and each one had a slightly different grille design. To answer your first question: It's a GAZ 21 Volga produced by Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod - you know, Gorky Automobile Factory - from 1956 till 1970, when it was replaced by the GAZ 24. In fact, car shows in the Northeast are the only places where we've seen Volgas.
A 1960s Russian sedan is not something we would have expected to find deep in the woods in upstate New York, but, to be honest, there are not that many places in North America where we would have expected to see a Volga.
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