KAvZ

KAvZ
Native name
 ООО «Курганский автобусный завод»
Formerly
 Курганский автобусный завод им. 60-летия Союза ССР
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.ru
KAvZ-4238
KAvZ-4235
Old KAVZ buses

KAvZ (Russian: Курга́нский авто́бусный заво́д, КАвЗ, Kurgansky Avtobusny Zavod) 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

Former company brand

Current

  • KAvZ-4238 Aurora (2006-present)
  • KAvz-4235 Aurora (2008-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

  1. ↑ "Likino Bus Plant". gazgroup.ru. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
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