In 1993, the car company PSA Bronto was established as part of the AvtoVAZ research center for the production of special armored vehicles and SUVs on the platform of the
Lada Niva. The following year, more than 200 copies of this model were sold, which allowed the company to begin work on new projects. Lada Bronto Marsh-1 (1922-00) was one of the few mass-produced vehicles on massive balloon tires. Developing the model of AvtoVAZ's leading engineer, Pyotr Prusov, the company created the all-terrain vehicle Marsh-1, a
swamp buggy vehicle, which became a real sensation at the auto show held in
Moscow in 1995. This car is designed to work in specific conditions that are associated with overcoming marshy swamps, deep snows, sand dunes. Its first copies went to
Surgut and
Nadym. In 2002, more than 30 SUVs 192200 "March" were purchased by the government of
Yakutia. In 1996, the cooperation of PSA Bronto with
Sberbank of Russia began, for which the company manufactured 500 cash armored vehicles. Having continued in new modifications in 2002 on the Nadezhda platform "Bronto-212090" and on the Lada Niva platform "Bronto-213102". In 2004, the Bronto-194900 model was released on the
Chevrolet Niva platform for collection. In 2012,
VIS-AUTO absorbed PSA Bronto. The PSA Bronto company was officially dissolved on 1 January 2015.{{cite web |url=https://www.avtogide.ru/%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F-%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE-%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%91-%D1%87%D1%82%D0%BE-%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0.html |title=История марки Бронто- всё что нужно знать |trans-title=The history of the Bronto brand - everything you need to know |language=Russian |work=Avtoguide |date=9 December 2021 ==Continuing usage of the Bronto badging==