No.
The Soviets bought the obsolete R71 design from BMW under the terms of the Molotov-Ribentrop pact sometime before May 1941. They might have thought they were getting the more modern R75 design. Either way, given the events between May 1941 and May 1945 the Soviets were never going to shout about it, especially as what they bought was basically useless. Soviet standards are based on Victorian/Edwardian Krupp and Vickers documents,
not SAE or ISO, so lots of ultra fine threads and weird alloys. When you can't source what the Bavarians used you have to redesign*. Both the Dnepr and Ural are what you get when you tell a Soviet Engineer to design from scratch but hide the waste of dealing with BMW by making it look like one. They'd have done better not worrying about the last bit, but no one was going to volunteer to tell Stalin and Co. Not one single BMW part fits.
*An even better example is the Tupolev TU-4. They wanted a B-29 but Boeing worked with 1/4 inch alloy skins. 6.25 mm is too weak, 6.5mm too heavy. It took them longer to "copy" than it did Boeing to start from a blank sheet and the resulting performance is lower.
The military urals varieties are a similar story. Once you have the factory you need to justify it. As a military vehicle they were pretty useless but better than walking. When your economy isn't up to making the jeep you'd like (try carrying three wounded mates in a sidecar) you take it. Ural marketing never gave up though, I've got brochures from the 1990's showing some unfortunate squadies lugging anti-tank rockets about on the benighted things complete with lurid orange cammo (but it has no room for any reloads). I think they dumped a few on the Egyptians and others in the beggars not choosers level of Soviet "Ally".
Andy
