The GAZ-34039 Irbis is a Russian tracked amphibious snow-and-swamp vehicle produced by Zavolzhsky Tracked Tractor Plant for passenger and cargo transport in severe off-road and climatic conditions. ZZGT product material describes a 5,000 kg vehicle with a D-245 diesel engine, 12-seat passenger layout, road and afloat mobility, and passenger, cargo-passenger, and cargo configuration rows. Open-source reporting has also documented Irbis vehicles with Indonesian TNI disaster-response units, but direct armed-conflict use remains unsourced.
ZZGT materials describe the Irbis as a configurable GAZ-34039 family vehicle rather than separate weapon records: the current product page names passenger and cargo-passenger modifications, while a ZZGT brochure tables passenger, cargo-passenger, and cargo rows.
| Variant | Configuration | Designation notes |
|---|---|---|
| GAZ-34039 Irbis passenger | 12-seat passenger configuration | The passenger row carries 12 people, includes four sleeping places, and is listed with the common 5,000 kg curb weight, 1,500 kg total payload, D-245 diesel, and 60/6 km/h road/afloat speeds. Sources: ZZGT GAZ-34039 Irbis product page, ZZGT tracked snow-and-swamp vehicles brochure |
| GAZ-34039 Irbis cargo-passenger | 7-seat mixed cargo/passenger configuration | The brochure cargo-passenger row lists seven seats and a 940 kg cargo-platform payload within the same 1,500 kg total payload rating. Sources: ZZGT GAZ-34039 Irbis product page, ZZGT tracked snow-and-swamp vehicles brochure |
| GAZ-34039 Irbis cargo | 3-seat cargo configuration | The brochure cargo row lists three seats and a 1,260 kg cargo-platform payload, with the same engine, suspension, track, mobility, and external-dimension rows as the passenger and cargo-passenger versions. |
The Irbis sits in ZZGT's tracked snow-and-swamp transport lane rather than a direct-fire vehicle family. The closest published catalog neighbor is the GAZ-3344-20 Aleut, which uses a two-section articulated layout for Russian military Arctic mobility while the Irbis record covers a single-hull passenger, cargo-passenger, or cargo vehicle.
| Related vehicle | Relationship | Source-backed context |
|---|---|---|
 | Same ZZGT tracked-mobility lane | ZZGT material identifies the Irbis as a tracked snow-and-swamp vehicle in passenger and cargo layouts; Janes and ZZGT material identify the Aleut/GAZ-3344 family as another ZZGT tracked all-terrain carrier, but with an articulated two-section military Arctic-support layout. |
Sources: ZZGT GAZ-34039 Irbis product page; ZZGT tracked snow-and-swamp vehicles brochure; ZZGT GAZ-3344 product page; Janes Aleut service entry.
