Satra Corporation was a US trading and metal processing company. It is primarily known in the United Kingdom for its Satra Motors Limited subsidiary, which was the official importer and distributor of Soviet Union cars and motorcycles in that country from 1973 to 1979. Satra is an acronym for "Soviet American Trade Association".

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Satra Motors imported, modified, and distributed Soviet

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s, such as Lada and Moskvich, and motorcycles made by Ural, Dnepr, Voskhod, Minsk, and the

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whose Planeta and Jupiter were marketed. The motorcycles were sold in Britain and Australia under a single brand name, Cossack. Satra Motors was based in Carnaby, Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire on the old airfield.

Cossack motorcycles

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. Some are derived from the design of the 1938 BMW R71 sidecar motorcycle. Examples include the Russian Ural or the Ukrainian

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. ''Cossack'' was also the brand name applied to all Soviet motorcycles distributed by ''Satra Belarus'' from 1973 to 1979, originally located in

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, southern England,''Motorcyclist Illustrated'', October 1974, p.63 ''The Cosssack Range. Voskhod 175, Jupiter 350, Ural 650''. Satra Belarus Limited, Canada Road, Byfleet, Surrey, KT14 7JX'' Accessed and added 2015-03-09 later moving to Carnaby in eastern England and being used by the Australian importer, Capitol Motors until May 1976 when their motorcycle division closed. Ural,

, Voskhod and Minsk were some of the former Soviet Union manufacturers whose bikes were imported and rebadged.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20060929034012/http://www.cossackownersclub.co.uk/cossack_tradenamed_bikes.pdf * http://www.cossackmotorcycles.com/index.html Auto dealerships of the United Kingdom AvtoVAZ Companies of the Soviet Union Defunct companies based in New York City Foreign trade of the Soviet Union Motorcycles by brand Soviet Union–United Kingdom relations