MoAZ
MoAZ an initialism for Mogilev Automobile Plant (Belarusian: Магілёўскі аўтамабільны завод (МаАЗ)/Russian: Могилевский автомобильный завод (MoA3)), officially Mogilev Automobile Plant. SM Kirov is an automotive and earth-moving equipment manufacturer in the city of Mogilev, Belarus. MoAZ is a subsidiary of BelAZ since 2006. In 1958 MoAZ was named in honor of Sergey Kirov, a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union.
JSC | |
Industry | Automotive |
Founded | 1948 |
Headquarters | |
Area served | Worldwide, CIS |
Products | Dump trucks Heavy equipment Goods wagons |
Parent | BelAZ |
Website | MoAZ official page |
History
The company was founded in 1935 as Workshop. In 1941 the plant was evacuated to Kuibyshev, where he mastered the production of engines for the attack aircraft IL-2.[1]
After World War II the plant was returned to Mogilev and produced locomotives, steam-powered machinery, overhead cranes and oil trucks on chassis GAZ-51. In 1958 the factory conveyor technology named S. Kirov Mintyazhmasha USSR in Mogilev was transferred to the production of single-axle tractor MAZ-529, developed at the Minsk Automobile Plant.[2] In 1960 MoAZ and Minsk Automobile Plant was transferred a group of designers, which became the basis of the technical services of the plant. Since that time MoAZ became one of the largest manufacturers of earth-moving equipment in the USSR.
In 2006 the factory became a branch of JSC "BelAZ". Since 2012 - the branch of "BelAZ" - managing company "BelAZ-Holding". The company mainly works on exports - more than 85% of production going to CIS member states .
Current products
- Self-propelled scrapers (MoAZ-6014);
- loaders (MoAZ-40484);
- dump (MoAZ-7505, MoAZ-7529);
- underground train (MoAZ-7405-9586);[3]
- trucks (MoAZ-049, MoAZ-060, MoAZ-070);
- motorized rollers (MoAZ-6442-9890);
- wheeled bulldozers (MoAZ-40486, MoAZ-40489);
- electric cars (EC-1.00);
- Tractors (MoAZ-49011);
- Airdrome trucks (MoAZ-7915);
- engineering tractors for the Belarus Army.[4]
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