The Kiev Motorcycle Plant was founded in September 1945 on the basis of the former Tank Repair Factory No. 8 in the Shevchenko District of Kiev, at 8 Kagatnaya Street (Khokhlov family) – on the basis of the resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR No. 2435-652 of September 21, 1945 and the order of the People's Commissar of Medium Machine-Building of the USSR No. 362/S of September 26, 1945.

From October 1945 to the end of March 1953, the factory was subordinated to the Main Directorate of the Motorcycle and Bicycle Industry (Gławmotoveloprom).

Emblem of the Kiev Motorcycle Factory from the USSR era

The first model, the single-seater K-1B "Kyjovianin" light motorcycle, was produced in 1946 based on the Wanderer-1Sp motorcycle documentation, using equipment received as reparations from Germany. Initially, the engine for the "Kyjovianin" was sourced through a cooperative, but in 1947 the factory began mass production of K-1B motorcycles with its own engine.

Assembly of K1-B "Kyovianin" motorcycles on the production line in the hall of the Kyiv Motorcycle Factory in Lukianivka.

К-1Б «Киевлянин»

At the end of 1946, on the basis of the already produced K-1B, production of the first Soviet motorized wheelchair for disabled people, the K-1W, began.

КМЗ К-1В