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KAvZ

Native name	ООО «Курганский автобусный завод»
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.ru

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.

Models

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

1. "Likino Bus Plant". gazgroup.ru. Archived from the original on 8 April 2017. Retrieved 30 April 2017.

External links

• Official site (Russian)
• Official website (English)
• Profile on the GAZ website
• Cars from East

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