KAvZ
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Native name | ООО «Курганский автобусный завод» |
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Formerly | Курганский автобусный завод им. 60-летия Союза ССР |
Company type | Private limited company |
Industry | Mechanical engineering |
Founded | 1958 (1958) |
Headquarters | Kurgan, KGN , Russia |
Key people | Alexander Viktorovich Alsarayev, acting managing director |
Products | Middle range buses |
Services | Bus manufacturing |
Number of employees | circa 600 (2013) |
Parent | GAZ Group Bus Division |
Website | bus |
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KAvZ (Russian: Курганский автобусный завод (КАвЗ), romanized: Kurgansky Avtobusny Zavod, lit. 'Kurgan Bus Plant') is a bus manufacturer in Kurgan, KGN, Russia. The factory started producing buses in 1958, based on trucks from GAZ. During the 1990s, it assembled Ikarus buses for the Russian market. Now a subsidiary of GAZ, it specialises in producing small buses, in particular school buses.
KAvZ is a subsidiary of Russian Buses which is a subsidiary of GAZ Group. Starting in 2015, the GAZ Group has introduced a single brand for all its bus manufacturing subsidiaries, and newly manufactured vehicles now feature the deer badge of the GAZ company.[1]
Models
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Logo_bus_manufacturer_KAvZ.gif)
Current
- KAvZ-4238 Aurora (2006–present)
- KAvZ-4235 Aurora (2008–present)
- KAvZ-4270 (2016–present)
Former
- KAvZ-651 (1958–1973)
- KAvZ-663 (1961–1966)
- KAvZ-685/3270/3271 (1971–1991)
- KAvZ-3100 (1976)
- KAvZ-49471 (1981–1985) -truckbus
- KAvZ-4959 (1985) -truckbus
- KAvZ-3275 (1991–1998)
- KAvZ-3976 (1993–2007)
- KAvZ-4229 (1998)
- KAvZ-4224 (1998–2003) -truckbus
- KAvZ-3244 (1998–2007)
- KAvZ-39766 (2002–2008)
- KAvZ-4239 (2008–2014)
References
- ^ "Likino Bus Plant". gazgroup.ru. Archived from the original on 8 April 2017. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
External links
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- Official site (Russian)
- Official website (English)
- Profile on the GAZ website
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